What about this guy...is he all of a sudden unsaved? How do we prove it?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vfqtpLLhNLY
MM
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vfqtpLLhNLY
MM
Perhaps I'm not understanding your take on all this.
Are you saying that your hypotheticals are cause for doubts in the sufficiency in the Blood of Christ...that the time location of the hypothetical sins you mentioned create some sort of crisis in that sufficiency in His Blood? Who have you ever known to do such extreme sin after truly being saved? How do you prove that someone of that small grouping are not saved any longer? How do you prove that such a person becomes unsealed, which would be a matter of the Lord forfeiting His own Spirit?
This is fascinating.
Now, I do agree with you that doing all the good works we can is indeed good, but drawing a line of connection between good works and salvation for cause and effect, that makes salvation a matter of being additionally rooted in works in connection with the Blood of Christ rather then only upon the completed redemption in the Blood of Christ in His death, burial and resurrection on the third day.
Please explain.
MM
How do you prove that such a person becomes unsealed, which would be a matter of the Lord forfeiting His own Spirit?
Lets take it another way;
Can we do anything we want and be saved as long as we believe in Jesus?
1 John 3:7 - Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous; 8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.Lets take it another way;
Can we do anything we want and be saved as long as we believe in Jesus?
Lets take it another way;
Can we do anything we want and be saved as long as we believe in Jesus?
Dispensing with the negative labeling (diatribe, etc.), yes, of course John told Israel that they must believe. Yes. Where that is a good thing, it doesn't stand out as anything remarkably supportive for losing salvation dare one traipse into unbelief. John did not preach to Gentiles...oh, wait, he was not the apostle to the Gentiles, and so not everything John wrote applies to Gentiles. John also commanded Israel to continue in obedience to the Law, which is the Commandments of God:
1 John 5:1-3
1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
I suspect you may try to claim those are only the commands of Christ, but the believing Jews weren't on that page with you:
Acts 21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
There were/are believing Jews at that time, and today, who were/are in Christ Jesus AND were/are ALL zealous of the Law...the Mosaic Law. Many a Gentile I've spoken with through the years find this seemingly counter-intuitive to their experience as Gentiles never raised in our culture, but it is what it is. I too was of that stripe, but no more.
MM
Not can we, but will we? There is a vast difference in a man who is indwelt by the Spirit and one who is not. The one who is has God working in them willing and doing of His good pleasure, conforming him to the image of Christ...Philippians 2:12-13, Romans 8:29. Further, those whom God saves are disciplined when they sin, correcting their behavior...Hebrews 12:6. And lastly, the same Spirit that indwells the individual also convicts the individual of sin...2 Corinthians 7:10.Lets take it another way;
Can we do anything we want and be saved as long as we believe in Jesus?
It has always been our understanding, as Jews, that we MUST endure in our efforts for obedience to remain in God's graces, which goes hand-in-hand with being in the Kingdom. It's in our very fiber, always has been. Gentiles who think they understand us, think again. This isn't an appeal made only for the purpose to discredit all that Gentiles believe so long as they believe only what's written rather than taught to them by their false teaching pastors and Sunday school teachers, etc. The Kingdom Gospel resonates with the ethic of obedience and endurance, and will once again pick back up in the tribulation outside of grace just as it was before Israel fell.
MM
How many ways can one try to establish authority? Here it is by appealing to cultural and ethnic background.
It's truly absurd to think that the lord can't take away what he has given. This is the same reasoning of the gnostics who thought that what they had been given could never be taken away from them.
Not can we, but will we?
More rhetoric from him - this time with some ambiguous conclusion.
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Precious @Needevidence? Cart before the horse?:Lets take it another way;
Can we do anything we want and be saved as long as we believe in Jesus?
So, Precious friend, @Dev06, are you saying: God's Own All-Sufficient BLOODOne doesn’t “lose” their salvation as in God won’t take it away because they’ve sinned too much. However, it is possible to depart from the faith.
Lets take it another way;
Can we do anything we want and be saved as long as we believe in Jesus?
The question is simple: does God command men to believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ?
NAS 1 John 3:23(a) And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ,...
We preach grace not license to sin.