What is falling away as mentioned in Hebrews 6?
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Exactly! I am glad you have finally come around and we now agree! 
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We don't do anything but BELIEVE the gospel of Christ to receive eternal life. The second we believe and trust in Jesus (His deity and His finished work on the cross) to save us, we are justified as righteous unto God, sanctified and sealed by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin and sanctification is a continuing process throughout our lives as we become mature Christians, walking in God's light and growing in His holy word.
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I see. In looking at the words in Greek, I began to see a different picture than what we have heard. What I meant was my post has nothing to do with lost salvation EG. I think Deade was referring to it too, but could be wrong.
Try looking at the words with your concordance.
However, I also believe that the goodness of the Lord in saving us by faith in His blood sacrifice frees His keeping power to be more active in our life. We are more apt to increase by meditation in the Word if we are secure in Jesus. But, if we aren't secure, we will be under the weight of condemnation.
Also more apt to walk with Him daily. Not run and hide like A&E.
Try looking at the words with your concordance.
However, I also believe that the goodness of the Lord in saving us by faith in His blood sacrifice frees His keeping power to be more active in our life. We are more apt to increase by meditation in the Word if we are secure in Jesus. But, if we aren't secure, we will be under the weight of condemnation.
Also more apt to walk with Him daily. Not run and hide like A&E.
Salvation has three steps, not just one. First is faith in Christ and His Father and in all they promise and say, 2 is repentnce of our sins and taking them to His as Christ paid for them. We accept that Christ washes them away. 3. We put on the body of Christ for we love Christ and follow Him. Our sins are gone, paid for, and we live a saved life. When we can't (even Paul said he couldn't) we take any new sin to Christ for His forgiveness for we are living a new life in Christ.
Renewing them to repentance again.
if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. Hebrews 6:6
They have departed from Christ of their own free will.
Once this occurs it’s impossible to renew the to repentance again.
JLB
The first-century readers of Hebrews were stalled in the beginning stages of their Christian experience (the elementary principles of Christ). In using the word "leaving," the writer does not urge them to abandon what they have learned but to move forward to reach the next stage of spiritual development (5:11, 12). Hebrews 6:4-6 - The sense here is that if the things listed have happened and people still fall away, then there is no hope they can be restored to faith, because they have utterly and consciously rejected Christ. The argument is that if those people could fall away, then to renew them again to repentance would be impossible unless Christ were to die a second time. Such an act would bring Him open shame and make His work of not infinite value. I must add that many Christians can fall into a backslidden state at times for various reasons, but we must never assume that they were never saved to begin with. We have no way of knowing how the Holy Spirit is working in any person's life. Phillippians 1:6 tells us: Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Also, Hebrews 12:6: "For those whom the Lord loves He chastens, and He scourges every son whom he receives." Just as a parent disciplines and trains up a child the way they should go, so does our Father in Heaven. And, just as a child rebels at times against their parents, so do Christians rebel against God's commandments, but that does not make them unbelievers or unsaved. Parents don't stop loving their children when they are disobedient and our Heavenly Father doesn't stop loving us when we disobey Him, but He will surely discipline us as He molds and refines us into His masterpiece.
Are you calling Jesus a liar when He said: "I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." (John 11:25); or "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life." (John 5:24); "For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt." (Romans 4:3-4); "For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the law but through the righteousness of faith. for if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise made of no effect, because the law brings about wrath; for which there is no law there is no transgression." (Romans 4:13-15) Summary: God's promise is independent of the law and rests squarely on the principle of faith. When God's people look to the law for justification instead of to God, failure to keep the law makes them guilty and they face death instead of life. God's promise of the law is uncertain, whereas His promise of faith is certain. Abraham's "faith" conquered impossibility, improbability, inadequacy, inconsistency, insecurity, and infidelity.
The idea of sign gifts used to confirm the work of the Holy Spirit apply to any sign seeker today this includes the sign using water to confirm or making a noise. They are private interpretations no different than that used of the Catholics as oral tradition of men that do make the word of God in respect to sign without effect. We walk by faith the unseen eternal. Signs as wonders are designed for those who refuse to believe prophecy .
Faith is the best defense.
The instruction given Noah like all scripture is necessary to show the whole picture. Noah is used throughout the scriptures in many parables. Not just the parable in Genesis. Many lesson are drawn form it. If we say it was private to Noah we miss the mark
Which promises has he given to Israel and to which Israel that he has not given to the rest of the church ? The one he renamed Christian or the one he gave a letter of divorce? The new testament.
We do not wrestles against flesh and blood (Jew and gentile) and neither are we supported by it. Most would agree with the first but not the second
Christ informs us His flesh profits for nothing.
God used the flesh of a Jew in various parables as a metaphor to indicate faith belief in one and un-belief no faith in another. Just as he used clean animal and unclean animal as object lessons in parables.
Faith is the best defense.
The instruction given Noah like all scripture is necessary to show the whole picture. Noah is used throughout the scriptures in many parables. Not just the parable in Genesis. Many lesson are drawn form it. If we say it was private to Noah we miss the mark
Which promises has he given to Israel and to which Israel that he has not given to the rest of the church ? The one he renamed Christian or the one he gave a letter of divorce? The new testament.
We do not wrestles against flesh and blood (Jew and gentile) and neither are we supported by it. Most would agree with the first but not the second
Christ informs us His flesh profits for nothing.
God used the flesh of a Jew in various parables as a metaphor to indicate faith belief in one and un-belief no faith in another. Just as he used clean animal and unclean animal as object lessons in parables.
Once again, instead of responding to what I wrote, you have responded to generalities that I have not affirmed. Why do you do this? It is as though I say a sentence to you, and you turn and say a sentence to someone else, and think you have responded to me. You haven't.
Your ideas are irrelevant because they don't apply to me, nor do they apply to the claims of others on this forum.
So, Garee, please respond to my words, or don't respond to me at all.
Your ideas are irrelevant because they don't apply to me, nor do they apply to the claims of others on this forum.
So, Garee, please respond to my words, or don't respond to me at all.