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If we no longer have to teach any Jew from the least to the greatest to know the Lord, why is there still evangelism to Jews?
You believe God has forgiven and forgotten the sins of all Jews from the least to the greatest which implies all Jews are now saved?


All Jews are now sitting in heavenly places, with circumcision of Christ. Them walking still alive and remaining on earth are in natural bodies, and are called Christians. They don't need evangelizing.

And so yes, all Jews of the risen God of Israel are now saved. All His people of Israel are now saved.

The hope of the prophets to see an Israel and people of God without hypocrisy nor persecution of their own, is now fulfilled in Jesus Christ: The Lord knows everyone of them that are His people in the house of Israel and of Judah.

Now, some of His own are definitely confused about eternal salvation, and are saying some truly backward things about it, such as the Lord is still saving them that don't even believe, but so long as any believer is obeying Him, then they still have eternal salvation and are circumcised inwardly a Jew seated in heavenly places.
 
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So you don't know how long one must endure in order to know if they have the enduring that shows they know him?

Enduring to the end is sufficiently long. Enduring halfway is not.

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy.


Jesus is the Author and the Finisher of our faith, not just the Author without a finishing.

Apparently, some believers get tired of enduring and figure they've endured temptation enough, and so turn to the unconditional kingdom of OSAS for a little funtime in sin again.

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Them that love Him obey Him: If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Jesus showed by example how to endure and obey unto the end, even when we stop feeling like it, as He did in the garden.
 

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I am sorry sir, I do not understand what you are saying Robert
Them that reject obedience to the faith as necessary with salvation, say that such things are heartless and false doctrine.

I.e. how can being obedient to the Author of eternal salvation be heartless and heretical?

The same people even go so far as to say we are still saved, even when we don't believe anymore.

They are idolizing a Goddess of Grace. A Mother that would never say no. Sort of like the Virgin Mary.
 

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Who? Everyone who argued repeatedly, and contrary to scripture, that salvation can be lost if we don't obey, and work, to stay saved.

Go tell that to the Scripture.

There is eternal salvation, that Jesus Authors, for them that obey, not for them that disobey.

OSAS can't even comprehend what they are arguing against.

Sad. Very sad, very huan, very wrong, very lost.


This one Scripture of truth has poked a gaping hole through the whited hornet's nest of OSAS, and see how they bite and sting for it.

Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.

So far as I can see, not one of them has even tried to undo the simplicity of those words: Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, and likewise for the joy set before us, we ought also obey and endure our cross in like manner as He: even when we don't feel like it.

Jesus is the Author eternal salvation to all them that obey His faith. And He did not become the Author, until after He learned obedience to the faith, that was contrary to His own desires and feelings of the flesh. By such obedience He is now able to be touched with the feeling of our infirmities: Not to give into sin and feel bad about it, but to resist temptation unto the end.

The infinities of the saints of Jesus Christ are temptations, not sins. Jesus was tempted in all points, especially in the garden, yet without sin, and Christians are tempted in all points and are commanded to sin no more.

Jesus is the Author of eternal salvation to all them that obey. To them that do not obey, He is not the Finisher of a faith that is dead.

Like John marvelling at Mystery Babylon in Rev 17, how can anyone naming the name of Christ possibly argue against obedience to the faith of Jesus, as the necessary thing accompanying salvation?

With the OSAS soldiers, the only ones lost and without grace are those who believe and obey the Word of God, lest they too become broken off and castaway:

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.

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.


How else do we bring our body under and keep it in subjection, but by obedience to the Word of God?

Who argues against that? OSAS.

I think these errors are the product of pride, ego, and deep ignorance. Because they're all implying we are responsible for staying saved. Which naturally would rescind God's part in our Salvation as the sole source for it.

OSAS sass. OSAS can get so sassy. Sassy OSAS. They can be so OSASSY.

So them that preach obeying with faith are proud. What a pathetic pseudo-judgment of the lukewarm.

They that preach being nonresponsible, are irresponsible, and become responsible for the deceiving of the elect.

The problem is when the carnal minded think of the things of God in natural manner.

Jesus is the Author of eternal salvation and of our faith, not the 'sole source' for it, which is nowhere written in Scripture.

If we seek to have part in the first resurrection, we must play our part by obedience to the faith, so that we can run the race lawfully unto the end. (2 Tim 2:5)

We are responsible for our part: to obey and run lawfully by grace through faith.

We are saved by grace through faith, and we obtain eternal salvation with obedience to the faith by grace: no obedience, no faith, nor grace to help in time of need to overcome sin.

What is truly sad and lost is the blustering 'indignation' of them preaching the depths of Satan for the deep things of God.

The hornet's nest is indeed stuck.

It's like false prophets refusing to give up their long-studied and most cherished scholarship of OT prophecy: it's not about the children of Israel to them, nor about salvation to OSAS, but only about knowledge that puffs up and refuses to be corrected by simple Scripture, because they have spent so much time 'learning' something false.

And now look at what depths they go yearning to keep the lie going.
Once Sealed Always Sealed.
Jesus did the work.

How do people miss this?
2 Timothy 1:9 He has saved us and called us to a holy life-not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,

Ephesians 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-
 

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Them that reject obedience to the faith as necessary with salvation, say that such things are heartless and false doctrine.

I.e. how can being obedient to the Author of eternal salvation be heartless and heretical?

The same people even go so far as to say we are still saved, even when we don't believe anymore.

They are idolizing a Goddess of Grace. A Mother that would never say no. Sort of like the Virgin Mary.
You act as if we're conditionally saved, which is heresy, and are slaves to God the master. Who cracks the whip if we don't remain obedient to what?
The master whip cracker of your faith? Who dies to take the world's sins, not all sins of all people, but the sins of the world itself.
That whomever he gifts with faith and salvation by his grace, shall perish if they aren't strictly obedient to his every whim to the day they die. And only after death will that conditionally appointed person find out if they worked,obeyed enough, to be rewarded with eternal life.

You have to turn scripture on its head, eradicate context all together, and then twist God into a lying egocentric psychopath, to believe that is The Word made flesh and his message of good news.

Seriously. This is the kind of thing I was talking about before. Unbelievers posing as Christians, fouling scripture, insisting lies are truth, because they get satisfaction watching Christians try to change their mind.
 

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Correct. "the faith" being the False Christianity of the Vatican. Have you ever heard of the pope or his prelates ever admitting that they are seriously in error? They condemned John Wycliffe for pointing out their errors.
Ummmm, forgetting for a moment that this is a thread about eternal security (OSAS) an NOT a primer on false histories of the Catholic Church - this is nothing but another smokescreen to avoid the evidence I have presented that disproves OSAS.
 

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Once again. A perfect confirmation of no refute, but only enraged opinion.

In short the fools monologue: "No eternal salvation! It's a lie!

Who said there is no eternal salvation? Of course there is. As the Scripture says, for all them that obey Jesus:

And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him.

It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

What's so tragic about Scripture commanding believers to obey Jesus?

People are people.

And sinners are sinners, and saints are saints.

He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

There is one difference between the sinner and the saint: obedience to God.

Who argues against obedience to God?
Who argues Obedience saves?
 

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Wow you need some healing from bitterness. It has corrrupted your soul! Jesus never once called the saved former pigs and dogs and weeds and wolves. We are lost sheep, wheat, elect, foreknown and predestined.

the bible has shown that there are weeds in the field of wheat on earth. they were not wheat once and turned to weeds.
the bible shows there are wolves in sheep clothing not wolves who turned to sheep and became wolves again.
Jesus in Matt. 7 told those who looked like Christians but weren't that He NEVER knew them not knew them once but doesn't know them anymore!
JOhn wrote that those that leave were not of us, at any time and proved it by leaving.


And that is the nature of cults and the false sects that believe you can lose your slavation. To them if you have a bad season, you are a dog! OSAS know that a person if truly saved can stumble but God will keep HIm from falling.



Lying about what I believe is unbecoming on you!



Lying again! I have been a teacher of the faith and believer of OSAS for over 47 years, and I have always taught belief and obedience with a passion! Stop lying!




More lies from a bitter heat!




Maybe if you bothered to learn what the bible teaches o OSAS you would not sound like a Pre-K kid trying to explain quantuum physics.
Jesus never once called the saved former pigs and dogs and weeds and wolves.

But you will call the former saved a dog and a pig at the drop of the hat. I suppose it beats grieving over a lost brother or sister of many years. Which I do. I remember their brotherhood without having to call them a pig and dog that was never saved.

We are lost sheep, wheat, elect, foreknown and predestined.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

And so you say for yourself. There is no such thing as lost sheep in the body of Christ. Only in the kingdom of OSAS are there lost sheep that neither believe nor obey, yet are still saved.

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. For your obedience is come abroad unto all men.

Whole lot of obedience pride there in Rome at the time.

They were not wheat once and turned to weeds.

So you say again, but your words show there are definitely weeds and wheat at the same time, such as the 'lost elect'.

Which can be true for a season, but in the end the whole lump must either obey or be castaway as a dead branch altogether.

Told those who looked like Christians

What does a Christian 'look like'? I don't read any Scripture about the Lord talking to 'look-alikes'.

He NEVER knew them not knew them once but doesn't know them anymore

When a name is blotted out of the Lamb's book of Life, then He forgets them completely, even as when He forgot their sins completely to write their new name into His book.

But if the sins take over again and He is put to an open shame, He is no more their sacrifice nor the Lord nor their Savior. He doesn't know them. He only knows them that are His and obey Him unto the end, even as He obeyed our Father unto the cross.

But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

If we forget we were once purged, then He will forget we were once written.

A person if truly saved can stumble but God will keep HIm from falling.

There is no 'truly' saved. Just saved or not.

If we turn to Him to find grace to help in time of need, then He is more than able to keep us from falling. If not, we fall. We have our responsible part to play, if we will have our part in the first resurrection:

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

If we do and obey, then we shall never fall. There is no Godly 'If' in the kingdom of OSAS.

"And so, not only does OSAS save them walking after the flesh, it's so secure, it even saves the unbeliever."

Lying about what I believe is unbecoming on you!

Let's see now. According to the champions of OSAS, I am a sad, lost, unsaved, proud, bitter-heated liar. What can possibly be unbecoming of me? Can a dog and a pig be unbecoming?

OSAS assures people that even if they are at any time not believing, they are still saved. They therefore acknowledge that a believer can cease to believe, but their OSAS minds cannot allow for them being not saved: God is saving the unbeliever.

It's no longer even salvation by grace through faith, but by grace alone. Faith alone is dead, and grace alone is...what? Mystical? Mystery Babylon?

Explaining to someone what they are actually saying is strange, but so is the kingdom of OSAS.

I have been a teacher of the faith and believer of OSAS for over 47 years, and I have always taught belief and obedience with a passion!

For 47 years you have been teaching a lie. But nonetheless, if you do teach belief with obedience passionately, ye do well. But if you teach salvation amidst unbelief and disobedience, ye do not well:

Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall.

The kingdom of OSAS shall fall.

The rest of your harang is just childish liar! liar! pants on fire! stuff. And coming from someone that must at least be 48 years old. Now that is unbecoming of an 'adult', much less a 'teacher'. But then, with the teachers in this world today, being a 'teacher' isn't such a great title to have anymore.
 
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How long do I need to endure in order to know I'm saved?
Obviously, you would need to endure to the very end and exhaust all possibilities of not enduring before you can make the determination that you are really saved. So we know that's not what Paul is saying. He's saying you are saved as long as you are enduring. And the verb tenses bear that out. They are in the present tense. You are presently saved if you are presently believing.


Now that I've shown you that Paul can not be saying that not enduring shows you are not really saved we can see that falling away can mean you simply stopped believing just as it may mean you never really believed to begin with.

If believing in vain in 1 Corinthians 15:2 means you never really believed that still doesn't change his statement that you are presently saved as long as you are presently believing. If you didn't really believe all that means is you aren't even a believer to begin with for it to matter if you keep believing.
Now that I've shown you that Paul can not be saying that not enduring shows you are not really saved we can see that falling away can mean you simply stopped believing just as it may mean you never really believed to begin with.

And this of course is the elephant roaming the kingdom of OSAS. They will not openly teach against salvation with obedience to the faith.

They just reject all the warnings to believers to endure to the end, lest we fall away from the faith and perish with the rest of the world.

And if someone was ever known as a brother or sister, and yet have plainly returned to open sin, then they were just dogs and pigs all along, that only 'looked like' a Christian, and so had everyone in the kingdom fooled.

And honestly, I really don't know what thinking unconditional eternally secure does for a believer. It would do absolutely nothing for me in continuing to the end.

Frankly, it probably all comes down to insecurity: they don't want to even think it is possible for them to fall, and so even in the midst of sins, they are only stumbling for a season, and it will all be fine in the end, though for all practical purposes of Scripture, they have fallen.

It's an insecurity that leads straight to dishonest delusion. We must first be honest with ourselves and with God, before He can possibly make our ground good:

But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Once we cease to be honest with ourselves according to the truth of Scripture, we set ourselves down a dead end road.

And calling formerly known brothers and sisters in Christ pigs and dogs, that did not fall from the Vine of Christ, because they were never 'really' a saved branch at all, definitely isn't being honest with ourselves nor with others nor with Scripture.
 

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Ummmm, forgetting for a moment that this is a thread about eternal security (OSAS) an NOT a primer on false histories of the Catholic Church - this is nothing but another smokescreen to avoid the evidence I have presented that disproves OSAS.
No thing can ever disprove OSAS.

And truly, why would any saved person insist on such a thing is possible?

Eternal salvation, eternal life? Nah, not true! And we can prove it!
 

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And if someone was ever known as a brother or sister, and yet have plainly returned to open sin, then they were just dogs and pigs all along, that only 'looked like' a Christian, and so had everyone in the kingdom fooled.
And so the OSASer can never know if they are really saved. For there is always tomorrow to reveal that they haven't really believed all along. And so the doctrine of OSAS that is supposed to be the doctrine of sureness and security isn't that at all. They won't know if they've endured to the very end until they get to the very end. Meanwhile, the anti-OSASer is saved all the while he is enduring.
 
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Eternal salvation, eternal life? Nah, not true! And we can prove it!
Just because eternal life is eternal doesn't mean your possession of it is eternal.
You can't even fathom how that can be true, right?

A Forever Stamp is forever. Does that mean you can never lose it?
No, or course not. It means it will never cease to provide the service it provides. It will always do what it always does. That's why you should hang on to it! And that's how it is with eternal life. It won't let you down. So hang on to it! Hebrews 10:23 Hebrews 4:14 Don't throw away that which is eternal.
 

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I've always been "saved" and I'll always be "saved." I just know it's true. I wouldn't try to speak for the next guy.
It's just been a matter of walking it out.
 

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Just because eternal life is eternal doesn't mean your possession of it is eternal.
You can't even fathom how that can be true, right?

A Forever Stamp is forever. Does that mean you can never lose it?
No, or course not. It means it will never cease to provide the service it provides. It will always do what it always does. That's why you should hang on to it! And that's how it is with eternal life. It won't let you down. So hang on to it! Hebrews 10:23 Hebrews 4:14 Don't throw away that which is eternal.

I think you should continue to believe you are not truly saved.
Because of all that you clearly do not fathom. As God wills.

Please don't insist the Christians here call Jesus a liar and his sacrifice for nothing.
We know better.
 

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No thing can ever disprove OSAS.

And we have the conclusion of the whole matter.

No thing will ever disprove OSAS to OSAS. No Scripture. Not God. And especially not the devil.

And since this thread is not about disproving OSAS, but about one simple Scripture that proves obedience to the end is necessary with eternal salvation.

Without obedience to the faith, we do not have eternal salvation.

The only security of eternal salvation is obedience with faith.

And the kingdom of OSAS can believe what they want, because as they say, they is exactly what they will do.
 
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No thing can ever disprove OSAS.

Since that is the case, then I do wonder why OSAS ever tries to argue it with others? What's the point?

Among normal believers who enter into dispute of Scripture, we are at least open minded enough to be corrected, we at least must be willing to see and agree with the Scriptural argument made, if it convinces us.

But, if we go into making an argument out of doctrine of Christ, with absolutely no mind for correction at all, then we become vain and foolish argument-makers just for the sake of arguing with others.

I believe OSAS seeks to argue people away from the truth of Scripture, because their whole argument is based upon insecurity of the mind: they have no strength to acknowledge the truth, that Christians can obviously fall from grace, by departing from obedience to the truth and do despite to the Spirit of grace.

Instead, like the weak and feeble minded, they must think such a thing is impossible, so that when they ever find themselves in sin, they can tell themselves it will all be ok in the end.

And like all insecure people, they must try to find strength of faith in numbers. The more they can gather to themselves, telling themselves that it is indeed true, the more they are convinced of the lie, and so don't worry about sin so much. Mother Grace has us covered:

For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

Jesus Christ is not a strength in numbers Savior.

Though they all forsook Him as He prophesied they would, yet He stayed obedient unto the end, being alone on the cross, but with the Father. And so must we with the Son and the Father.
 

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I've always been "saved" and I'll always be "saved." I just know it's true. I wouldn't try to speak for the next guy.
It's just been a matter of walking it out.
It's called keeping the faith and knowing your walk is after the Spirit and not after the flesh. Not to boast of, but to be daily thankful for.

Although, I'm not so sure about the always been saved part.

Are you saying you've never needed repent to believe Jesus?
 

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Just because eternal life is eternal doesn't mean your possession of it is eternal.
You can't even fathom how that can be true, right?

A Forever Stamp is forever. Does that mean you can never lose it?
No, or course not. It means it will never cease to provide the service it provides. It will always do what it always does. That's why you should hang on to it! And that's how it is with eternal life. It won't let you down. So hang on to it! Hebrews 10:23 Hebrews 4:14 Don't throw away that which is eternal.
That forever stamp is the seal of the Spirit in the circumcision of Christ.

And circumcision became uncircumcision for the natural branches by transgression, and they were broken off by unbelief.

OSAS is the high-mindedness we are warned against, lest our circumcision likewise become uncircumcision, and we also be broken off.

And they call us proud for believing we are not too high and mighty in Christ to ever fall by the same transgression of others:

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

That star was once seated in heavenly places, but fell from grace, when he thought himself a real superstar who could never fall.

It's the oldest sin in the book: the pride of Lucifer.
 

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Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:31
4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love - Ephesians 1:4
“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” - Mark 1:15
20And Isaiah boldly says: “I was found by those who did not seek Me; I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me.”
The faith I have, I can't lose. It has never had anything to do with my effort. Like I said, I don't know about the next guy...