Saved by faith alone?

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Mem

Mem

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TMS said:
In my words... to be truly sorry, and to turn from your sin.

This is off Google and I agree with it...
Repentance is reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past or present wrongdoings, which is accompanied by commitment to and actual actions that show and prove a change for the better.
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The discussion of the four soils brought to mind and compelled me to search the phrase, 'repent of your unbelief' and I came up on an AI generated summary to the question "What is the root cause of unbelief" and seeing 'the root' mentioned, I read further where the 1. reason given had to do with 'desire and preference,' or, iow, a favoring of one's personal will..."rather than submit to God's will..."

The example of the man that said, "Lord, I believe. Help thou my unbelief," strikes me as his recognition of the rocks in the soil of his heart and a plea for help in removing them. And it occurred to me that anyone rarely walks up on an entirely 'good' patch of soil without noticing either rocks, thorns, if not also 'tread marks' or birds nearby.
 
TMS

TMS

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Faith and works has a lot to do with the belief ....
Once saved always saved.

Roms 11 makes it plan for me...

Rom 11:17-23
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. 19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

Notice that being cast away and being grafted in is conditional to the faith.

Faith can change. Every day we can grow closer to Christ or fall away.

1Co 9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Paul thought it was a possibility to be a cast away..
 
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