We all hate the five minute spellcheck rule. I am 71, with seven strokes, so my mind works slow, and even though spellcheck twice before I post, I find all kinds of spelling errors in my posts, because I proof read, I read what I thought TYPED.
Yes
OSAS, means
ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED. The definition you Posted was OBVIOUSLY made up by a person who hates what we really stand for, OR he made it up in total ignorance of what we really believe.
We
OSAS BELIEVERS know that only Born Again Believers go to Heaven. Because JESUS SAID SO.
John 3:3-7 (HCSB)
3 Jesus replied,
“I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
4 “But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”
5 Jesus answered,
“I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6
Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7
Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again.
Now I was Raised in an old fashioned Lutheran Church that NEVER taught Born Again and even said that expression was coined by the Baptists and Evangelicals and is Works Righteousness. That is FAR FROM THE TRUTH, it is a real work in our Hearts (Human Spirit) done by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:3 (HCSB)
3 Therefore I am informing you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say,
“Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
That Phrase JESUS IS MY LORD is not a profession; it is REFERRING to a CONFESSION that comes from DEEP in the Human Spirit. If you have not surrendered out of AGAPE LOVE to HIM as LORD, meaning MASTER, it is only Profession.
Most people that say you can lose your Salvation, do not realize what they are saying. They are Counting Disciples that Never have been BORN AGAIN. Yes, Disciples ONLY MEANS FOLLOWERS, SAVED and UNSAVED; and does not me SAVED BORN AGAIN, who have Surrendered out of AGAPE LOVE to HIM and have a REAL personal, intimate relationship with HIM as LORD. Of course those who are Unsaved can fall away, but Never the ones who are Born Again.
1 John 2:19 (HCSB)
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They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. However, they went out so that it might be made clear that none of them belongs to us.
Here is how we are SAVED,
Rom. 10:9-10, and that term only applies to the
HUMAN SPIRIT. Look at
John 3:6 again.
SALVATION is of the Human Spirit, and takes place in the moment in time you Genuinely first Believed.
SANCTIFICATION of Human Flesh will take place during the whole lifetime of the Believer, and will not be complete til the Ressurrection.
Romans 10:9-10 (NASB)
9
that if you confess {not just profess it} with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and
believe in your heart that God raised Him
from the dead, you will be saved;
10
for with the heart {Human Spirit} a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses,
resulting in salvation.
After WE are SAVED (Born Again) the Holy Spirit changes our new born Spirit to want to always LOVE HIM with AGAPE LOVE.
Obedience is part of our AGAPE LOVE after we are Born Again; and never has been Part of SALVATION. Yes, that New Born Spirit has ETERNAL LIFE IN IT, and it is not ETERNAL if it can fall away. Their are Lots of VERSES that teach us that You Cannot Lose SALVATION, once you REALLY HAVE IT. Also remember JESUS Speaks to both SAVED Disciples and UNSAVED Disciples.
2 Timothy 1:9 (HCSB)
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He has saved us and called us with a holy calling,
not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace,
which was given to us in Christ Jesus
before time began.
John 10:27-28 (HCSB)
27
My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me.
28
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.
Ephesians 6:24 (HCSB)
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Grace be with all who have undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.
Do you have that
undying agape love?
