OSAS, does this apply to all.
yes, everyone. By that, I mean every saved person.
If so, what does the Scripture of 1 Timothy Cha4:1 mean?
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will turn away from the faith by paying attention to deceitful spirits and demonic instructions.
If believers can turn away to Satan at the last times, why can't they turn away now also? And if they turn to demonic spirits, they surely won't be saved.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm???????? Turning away from the faith and being saved, how does that work for OSAS?
The confusion comes from misunderstanding what "turn away from the faith" means.
It refers to what a person does, NOT what God will do. Most assume that if one turns away, then God "turns away". Which is wrong.
The clearest statement on eternal security is from Jesus Himself.
John 10:28 - He says "I give them (believers, per John 3:15,16, 5:24, 6:40) eternal life and they (recipients of eternal life) SHALL NEVER PERISH.
It could not be more clear than that.
Since John 5:24 shows that from the MOMENT a person believes in Christ for salvation, they POSSESS eternal life. So John 10:28 applies to EVERYONE who has believed and therefore POSSESSES eternal life.
As I pointed out, to "fall away" or "turn away" is something that man does.
If salvation could be lost (or any other word that describes a person no longer going to heaven), then there WOULD BE verses that show that God will take away, remove, rescind, revoke a number of things, all things that accompany salvation.
1. salvation
2. eternal life
3. indwelling Holy Spirit (only possible in the OT, but not in the NT)
4. justification
5. become a child of God
6. become a new creature
7. born again, regenerated
8. glorification promised
I haven't found any verses that reverse any of these things.
And John 10:28 guarantees that a person who has been given eternal life (when they believed) shall never perish.
I absolutely believe what Jesus said.