Option 1 = Believe and be saved
Option 2 = Believe for a while, and be saved for a while.
Option meaning you choose to opt to do.
Those who do nothing, have the seed stolen and there is no change in their condition, because they opted to do nothing.
JPT
LOOSE YOUR PRE-SUPPOSITIONS. The People who taught you that about "Eternal Security and Once Saved Always Saved", KNEW A GREAT DEAL LESS THAN YOU DO, and in fact they without knowing it, were teaching LIES about our Beliefs.
The Seed that was STOLEN were Stolen from those WHO WERE NEVER SAVED.
I told you, what we believe, about the Parable of the SOWER, ONLY THE GOOD SOIL is a BORN AGAIN BELIEVER. All three of the other soils were Pretend Christians and the one that was stone cold UNBELIEVER. Go back and reread the explanation of our BELIEFS about SALVATION. You have chosen to believe your false prophet, instead of us who KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE TEACH AND BELIEVE.
Mark 4:13-20(CSBBible)
13 Then he said to them: "Don't you understand this parable? How then will you understand all of the parables?
14 The sower sows the word.
15 Some are like the word sown on the path. When they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word sown in them.
16 And others are like seed sown on rocky ground. When they hear the word, immediately they receive it with joy.
17 But they have no root; they are short-lived. When distress or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately fall away.
18 Others are like seed sown among thorns; these are the ones who hear the word,
19 but the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
20 And those like seed sown on good ground hear the word, welcome it, and produce fruit thirty, sixty, and a hundred times what was sown."
You can see,
ONLY THE LAST SOIL MENTIONED is a true Born Again Christian. The first type of soil is a stone cold Unbeliever, and the NEXT TWO are those that start off as Church going Pretend Christians, but fall away. Why do we put up with phony Christians in our Midst? BECAUSE OUR LORD WILL TAKE SOME, AS THEY ARE TAUGHT THE WORD, and bring some to become genuine Born Again Christians.
Romans 10:14-17 (HCSB)
14 But how can they call on Him they have not believed in? And how can they believe without hearing about Him? And how can they hear without a preacher?
15 And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: How beautiful are the feet of those who announce the gospel of good things!
16 But all did not obey the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?
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So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Christ.
We know their are Phony Pretend Christians in our midst,
and we want them there. We rejoice every time one genuinely turns to repent, receiving JESUS as LORD (Master), out of LOVE FOR HIM. The NARROW GATE, is apparently much NARROWER than you ever thought. We go through the NARROW GATE single file, so do not JUDGE us by the GROUP sitting on our pews; because we welcome the pretenders to sit there
HEARING THE WORD.
You want proof that
ONLY those who HEAR THE WORD, WELCOME IT, and PRODUCE FRUIT are those who are BORN AGAIN?
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.
John 14:23-24 (HCSB)
23 Jesus answered,
“If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
24
The one who doesn’t love Me will not keep My words. The word that you hear is not Mine but is from the Father who sent Me.
Galatians 5:14 (HCSB)
14
For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.
1 John 2:5 (NKJV)
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But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.
James 1:25 (HCSB)
25
But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but one who does ⌊good⌋ works—this person will be blessed in what he does.
Matthew 7:16 (HCSB)
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You’ll recognize them by their fruit. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:20 (HCSB)
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So you’ll recognize them by their fruit.
No, we do not believe anyone can be SAVED by works, because we are saved the moment we excercise SAVING FAITH, before any works can be done.
But that NEW ETERNALLY ALIVE, Born Again, Human Spirit, WILL have GOD LOVE controlling it, Rom. 5:5, so by our love they will know us. LOVE is the PRIMARILY FRUIT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, and therefore, LOVE can be one of the Yardsticks that they will KNOW US BY.
Look how many times GOD mentioned LOVE in these VERSES:
1 John 3:14-19 (HCSB)
14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we
love our brothers. The one who does
not love remains in death.
15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that
no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
16 This is how we have come to know
love: He laid down His life for us. We should also lay down our lives for our brothers.
17 If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need but closes his eyes to his ⌊need⌋—
how can God’s love reside in him?
18 Little children, we must not
love with word or speech, but with truth and action.
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This is how we will know we belong to the truth and will convince our conscience in His presence,
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