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BreadOfLife

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No kidding!
I explained to you that they are interpreting the particular definition of 'justified' that James is using!
Read my posts!
You're confused again because you think that there are TWO definitions of "justified". There aren't.

To be "Justified" simple means to be made right with God.
MOST Protestants believe we are simply "covered" by the righteousness of Christ.
Catholics believe that God actually makes us righteous in Christ.

YOU keep getting lost in semantics with words like "show" and "consider" - causing you to invent different definitions.
 

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If OSAS is not true

Then why are we told we will NEVER DIE

Why are we told we HAVE ETERNAL LIFE

Why are we told we will BE RISEN

Why are we told we have been SEALED BY THE SPIRIT (3 times even)

Why are we told we have been born of incorruptible seed?

Why are we told as long as he lives, we will love?

What purpose does the cross bear? If the cross can not save someone eternally. And we need to earn salvation by wrks. Then why have the cross at all?

OSAS never was about 'losing' salvation, but is proven to be everything about salvation by faith alone, which is dead.

Why are we told eternal salvation is for them that obey Him? Because it is for them that obey Him.

And we need to earn salvation by works.

We need to obtain eternal salvation by obeying Him.

Then why have the cross at all?

That we could obey Him? And no just believe alone? Yes, that would be it.

OSAS knows no more of the reason for the cross than they do for grace:

Grace is only given to them that come to grace for help in time of need to overcome temptation and sin, and the cross is only in effect for them that come to the cross for the way to obey Him by grace.

Scripture never speaks of anyone 'was saved'. There is no we 'were saved'.

We are saved is being saved. We are being saved by grace through faith for help in time of need to overcome sin and obey Him.

That is them that are being saved in this life, and will obtain eternal salvation in the life to come, if they continue therein.

The only ones who ever 'was saved', or 'were saved', are them that did not by grace continue in His righteousness from sin, but fell from grace as did Adam by transgression, and so are no more being saved for the first resurrection of the church.
 

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If they are, then they are in complete and utter contradiction. Which they can't be, or else we can just throw our Bibles away and go back to our sins.

I know you will never go against your Catholic overlords but you have to realize that there are those of us who know and understand that 'justified' has more than one meaning and usage. Paul is using the word in regard to being made righteous (receiving the righteousness that is from God), and James is using it in regard to being shown to be righteous (your works showing that you are righteous). And that is how and why they are not in contradiction with each other, and why we don't have to invent reasons to make it so they are not in contradiction. I don't care what you say about it, you and the Catholic church can not change the fact that there is more than one definition and usage of the word 'justified'. I'm not listening to you or your priests just because you have convinced yourselves that your priesthood is Christ on earth. They ain't!
Again – this is complete nonsense.

Paul and James are NOT speaking about TWO different definitions of justification. They’re simply talking about two ASPECTS of it. LEARN the difference.
Paul is talking about BEING justified - and James is talking about displaying that justification.

Paul DOESN’T decry works as being part of faith.
What Paul is condemning is works by themselves – WITHOUT the accompanying belief, trust, obedience and surrender that amounts to Faith.

Paul is BIG on works being an essential element of faith (Gal. 5:6, 1 Cor. 13:1-13)– bot ONLY for those who read the bible in context.
NOT for cherry-pickers like YOU . . .
 
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OSAS never was about 'losing' salvation, but is proven to be everything about salvation by faith alone, which is dead.

salvation is my faith not works. (Faith alone)

but faith is never alone

OSAS teaches justification by faith apart from works. But it also teaches faith is never alone

Why are we told eternal salvation is for them that obey Him? Because it is for them that obey Him.
It is. Those who truly repented and are saved by grace through faith do obey. More importantly. They obeyed the gospel
And we need to earn salvation by works.

We need to obtain eternal salvation by obeying Him.
Obeying the gospel

no one is saved because they obey commands. That’s being saved by law

Then why have the cross at all?

That we could obey Him? And no just believe alone? Yes, that would be it.
OSAS does
Not teach mere belief nor does it teach belief will be alone.

it teaches we are saved by grace through faith nit if works and our new creation is in Christ for works
OSAS knows no more of the reason for the cross than they do for grace:
this just goes to show you do not understand OSAS doctrine
Grace is only given to them that come to grace for help in time of need to overcome temptation and sin, and the cross is only in effect for them that come to the cross for the way to obey Him by grace.
We are saved from the penalty of sin (justification]sanctification comes after

as Paul said he who began a good work will complete it. Don’t you believe him?

Scripture never speaks of anyone 'was saved'. There is no we 'were saved'.

We are saved is being saved. We are being saved by grace through faith for help in time of need to overcome sin and obey Him.
For by grace we have been saved. Eph 2
For we were born again not if corruptible sees but incorruptible 1 Peter 1
Not by works of righteousness which we have done but by his mercy he saved us Titus 3: 5

just a few verses that show were were saved
That is them that are being saved in this life, and will obtain eternal salvation in the life to come, if they continue therein.

The only ones who ever 'was saved', or 'were saved', are them that did not by grace continue in His righteousness from sin, but fell from grace as did Adam by transgression, and so are no more being saved for the first resurrection of the church.
your trying to earn salvation my friend. Good luck with that
 

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Paul is BIG on works being an essential element of faith (Gal. 5:6, 1 Cor. 13:1-13)
But not for making a person righteous.
He uses Abraham as our example of how we also are made righteous by doing NOTHING except believing God's promise.
And James explains to us how we show that we are righteous by what we do. And so a man is justified by, both, faith and works. Faith makes you righteous, all by itself. Your works show you to be righteous.

Catholics believe that a man is made righteous by what he does, not by believing the promise all by itself, as Abraham was made righteous. That's why Protestants had to put the Catholic church to the curb in protest. The Catholic priesthood completely corrupted justification by faith and turned it into the very works gospel Paul condemns.
 

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Paul and James are NOT speaking about TWO different definitions of justification. They’re simply talking about two ASPECTS of it. LEARN the difference.
Here are the two definitions of the word that you are failing to see in Paul's and James' arguments:

jus·ti·fy
(jŭs′tə-fī′)
tr.v. jus·ti·fied, jus·ti·fy·ing, jus·ti·fies
1. To demonstrate or prove to be just, right, or valid: justified each budgetary expense as necessary; anger that is justified by the circumstances.
2. To free (a human) of the guilt and penalty attached to grievous sin. Used of God.

justify


#1 is James' argument. A man is justified (shown to be righteous) by what he does.
#2 is Paul's argument. A man is justified (made righteous) by believing in the blood of Christ, apart from what he does.

Two very different arguments about justification. Because Catholics do not understand these two definitions of justified they change Paul's definition of 'faith' to mean 'works of faith' in their misguided effort to reconcile James with Paul, and of course, to defend their works justification theology. Catholicism is the very works gospel Paul warned the church about. This is just another example of how the Catholic church ends up doing exactly what the Bible says not to do!
 

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salvation is my faith not works. (Faith alone)

but faith is never alone

OSAS teaches justification by faith apart from works. But it also teaches faith is never alone


It is. Those who truly repented and are saved by grace through faith do obey. More importantly. They obeyed the gospel

Obeying the gospel

no one is saved because they obey commands. That’s being saved by law


OSAS does
Not teach mere belief nor does it teach belief will be alone.

it teaches we are saved by grace through faith nit if works and our new creation is in Christ for works
this just goes to show you do not understand OSAS doctrine

We are saved from the penalty of sin (justification]sanctification comes after

as Paul said he who began a good work will complete it. Don’t you believe him?


For by grace we have been saved. Eph 2
For we were born again not if corruptible sees but incorruptible 1 Peter 1
Not by works of righteousness which we have done but by his mercy he saved us Titus 3: 5

just a few verses that show were were saved
your trying to earn salvation my friend. Good luck with that
But faith is never alone. OSAS teaches justification by faith apart from works. But it also teaches faith is never alone.

But Scripture teaches of a faith being alone. OSAS teaches the opposite.

OSAS is salvation for the double minded good sinners. They confirm they will sin, they confirm they continue in sin, and they condemn anyone claiming to go and sin no more as liars, because they know of no such thing among themselves.

They are converted to be doers of both good and evil, to be doers of the word and of the world: neighborliness with sins.

Scripture teaches there is nothing good about the sinner living in sins, because all their self-righteous moral works are as filthy rags to Him.

God is not looking for good sinners to inherit immortal bodies, but holy saints sinning no more by the faith of Jesus. God will gives immortal resurrection bodies to them who are clothed in white, not to them whose whited clothing is spotted with the sins of the world unto death.

no one is saved because they obey commands. That’s being saved by law.

No one is saved because they love God and obey His commandments, without which there is no love of God?? Those who do the word of Christ and keep His law in all points are not saved??

There is no being saved but with obeying the law of Christ, to overcome the law of sin in the mind, and in the body.

The works of the law that do not save, are the works of self-righteousness: the works of a law that is not of Christ. Good sinner works. Moral works. Humanism.

OSAS is salvation for sinful humans to practice humanism in place of the holy righteousness of God: to walk whited clothes spotted with sins of the world, to put on the new man over the old man, not in place of.

There is no 'was saved', only being saved. Eternal salvation is only for them obeying Him and being saved unto the end.

The elect saints are being saved by grace to obey Him, which is the only way to obey Him, by grace.

The OSAS error of unconditional security is believing in having been saved, was saved, saved already, so that the race is already won. How? By faith alone without obedience: Believing it alone isn't obeying it.

We are saved from the penalty of sin (justification]sanctification comes after.

And Scripture teaches being saved from their sins. So long as we are yet in our sins, we are not being saved from our sins.

God's grace is for help in time of need to overcome sin. OSAS filthy grace is for help in time of need from the penalty of the sins they continue in.

OSAS mocks God by believing in His Son to rescue from penalty of sin, but not to deliver from sin.

OSAS is the modern doctrine of salvation in sins, bringing in many damnable lies that Scripture never said: There is no Scripture speaking of salvation
from penalty of sin, but only salvation from their sins, whose penalty and wage is death.

This just goes to show you do not understand OSAS doctrine.

I know OSAS doctrine perfectly from your own words as opposed to Scripture, which show you don't know what you are believing and talking about.

OSAS doctrine is for saved sinners by filthy grace of dead faith, being alone in sins, and hidden from the blind god of this world, but not from Jesus Christ, the righteous judge of us all.

as Paul said he who began a good work will complete it. Don’t you believe him?

I believe the Scripture, you believe a twisted lie about Scripture.

We are saved once we believe Jesus with the heart, and we are being saved by obedience to Jesus from the heart. If we continue in sin, then our faith is dead, and we are not being saved. We have mocked God with profitless faith, seeking salvation from penalty of sin, but not from sin.

Our faith is justified by works of faith in righteousness of God, no longer being in sins of the world. No man is justified in his sins. That soul is dead by them.

Those who truly repented and are saved by grace through faith do obey.

And so yo agree, there is no sin of disobedience with the elect saints of Christ, who have repented of all the sins of the world, and not just a few, and no longer continue therein, to renew them continually unto a continual repentance of mind, but not repented with the body.

your trying to earn salvation my friend. Good luck with that.

Good luck with what?

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe.

That? Mock on.

How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

There are no godly lusts nor godly sins. All sin is transgression of the law: disobeying any point of the law, which is to be guilty of all and to pay penalty of all.

OSAS tries to have salvation through faith that continues to disobey God. There is no luck involved at all.

Frankly, I would rather risk falling from grace by obedience to the law of Christ in all points, than to certainly destroy my soul by openly and willfully disobeying Him in any point, while playing the hypocrite 'good sinner' by filthy grace.

 

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just a few verses that show were saved.

Here is the delusional crux of it all: We 'were saved', and so the race is over.

There are only two Scriptures that speak of 'are saved', which is not a past event only.

We 'are saved' is we are being saved. We began in salvation, when we believed, and we are being saved with obedience to that faith, and we will be saved in the end, having believed with obedience to the end.

Salvation is the race. It is not the beginners which recieve the crown, but only those who end the race, and end it lawfully, which is without sin and transgression of law.

OSAS thinks to mock God by cheating the race.

The good work of salvation in our souls begins through faith with the heart, and ends with eternal salvation for obeying Him from the heart.

OSAS doctrine is from the devil to derail them that had a good work began in them, and then ceased before it could be finished.

They start in faith, but do not finish in obedience to the faith.

The believe at the first, but do not obey at the last.

Jesus is the first and the last Author of eternal salvation: His salvation is not for the first starters only, but the last finishers.

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The Author begins with faith in the heart, and finishes with obedience of the body from the heart.

OSAS is salvation that begins in faith but does not finish with obedience.
 

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OSAS is once saved, always saved.

God is once saved by faith, always saved by obedience to the faith.

The good work of salvation begun in them that believe, is finished by the works of righteousness in obedience to the faith.

Faith is obedience in the heart: the substance of things hoped for from the heart.

Obedience to the faith is from the heart: The evidence of things not seen in the heart.

Separating faith that saves from faith that obeys, is the devil's work of OSAS: Salvation by faith alone.

There is no eternal salvation for them that obey sin, which is the only way to sin.
 

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OSAS is humanism salvation.

They are good sinners, that believe their sins are exempt from penalty of sin, the death of the soul.

They claim natural good works of their faith, while also confessing continuing in sin, despite their faith.

They become good sinners that begin to hate sin, but do not repent of sin.

The natural good works of the good sinner are the filthy rages of self-righteousness: Morality of man, not righteousness of God.

Humanism is the ideology of man choosing what is good and evil for themselves, according tot heir own carnal minds: the eaters of the tree of knowing good and evil.

OSAS is for those who believe they do good before God, while yet sinning in His face. OSAS is for Nimrods of the faith.

There is no righteousness with God while yet continuing in sins.

The righteousness of God is without sin:

He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

OSAS are humanists that speak of their own glory in good works and in sins.

All unrighteousness is sin...For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all...A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

OSAS is for the double minded hypocrites that claim both good and evil fruit.

There is no righteousness of God with sins. None of the good works of faith will ever be remembered by God, so long as the evil unrighteousness of sins continue in the body.

All unrighteousness is sin, and all sin is transgression of the law, and no branch of the true Vine of Christ can bear unrighteousness and sins and transgressions of the law of Christ.

OSAS falls short and fails to purify the heart and thus cleanse the inside of cup of all sin, so that the outside never comes clean in this life, thinking by delusion that they will be made clean only after the resurrection: They take no responsibility for their lives of sin in this world, and so deny the power of an endless life to live without sins in this world, even as Jesus did, though being tempted in all points of this world such as we.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

OSAS begins to hate sins, but then are short-circuited of repenting of sins and being cleansed of all unrighteousness in the heart and the body.

Why? Because they have no need to. They have 'gotten saved' by faith alone, and so there is no need to be saved with obedience to the righteousness of God in all things: A few good things amidst the sins are good enough for them and their blind god, who will not see their sins as exceeding sinful, but rather as extremely pleasurable.
 

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What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

OSAS: No! We continue in sin because grace does abound!!!

Ceeeelebrate that grace! C'mon! Ceeeeelebrate that grace! C'mon!
 

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And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.

The grace of God abounds to them for help in time of need to overcome all sin and temptation of sin, to abound in every good work, not in good and evil works of sin.

Every work of the elect saint is good work. There is no work of sin in the righteousness of God:

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

OSAS is the salvation for the pukey lukewarm who proclaim faith to be neighborly, while celebrating grace to cover corrupt sins.

And God also will leave many habits of sin alone while He is dealing with others.

The branches of Christ are all good. Those also continuing in corruption are broken off and burned in the fire, because their faith was dead, being 'left alone' with their sins.
 

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But faith is never alone. OSAS teaches justification by faith apart from works. But it also teaches faith is never alone.

But Scripture teaches of a faith being alone. OSAS teaches the opposite.

OSAS is salvation for the double minded good sinners. They confirm they will sin, they confirm they continue in sin, and they condemn anyone claiming to go and sin no more as liars, because they know of no such thing among themselves.

They are converted to be doers of both good and evil, to be doers of the word and of the world: neighborliness with sins.

Scripture teaches there is nothing good about the sinner living in sins, because all their self-righteous moral works are as filthy rags to Him.

God is not looking for good sinners to inherit immortal bodies, but holy saints sinning no more by the faith of Jesus. God will gives immortal resurrection bodies to them who are clothed in white, not to them whose whited clothing is spotted with the sins of the world unto death.

Ahh, so let me guess, You do not believe you sin?

And if you do think you sin, do you hide it? Do you confess it? Do you acknowledge it?

And if you do do that, why do you attack a person who believes in eternal security for doing the same thing you do?
no one is saved because they obey commands. That’s being saved by law.

No one is saved because they love God and obey His commandments, without which there is no love of God??
We Obey BECAUSE we love, We love because he loved us first. And gave his life for us.

No one obeys before they a=have been saved, because no one has the capacity to love, we are still in the flesh.

Those who do the word of Christ and keep His law in all points are not saved??
If anyone alive or who ever lived did that, they would not need saved no would they?

Cursed is the one who does not confirm and OBEY EVERY WORD.

If we keep the whole law yet STUMBLE in one point, we are found guilty of the whole law.

Again, Cursed is the one.

There is no being saved but with obeying the law of Christ, to overcome the law of sin in the mind, and in the body.

The works of the law that do not save, are the works of self-righteousness: the works of a law that is not of Christ. Good sinner works. Moral works. Humanism.

OSAS is salvation for sinful humans to practice humanism in place of the holy righteousness of God: to walk whited clothes spotted with sins of the world, to put on the new man over the old man, not in place of.

There is no 'was saved', only being saved. Eternal salvation is only for them obeying Him and being saved unto the end.
Then we are under law Not grace.

Good luck with that my friend.

The elect saints are being saved by grace to obey Him, which is the only way to obey Him, by grace.

The OSAS error of unconditional security is believing in having been saved, was saved, saved already, so that the race is already won. How? By faith alone without obedience: Believing it alone isn't obeying it.
Yep. We were saved by grace not works. We were saved by his mercy, not by works of righteousness.

But it sounds like you want to earn salvation. I do not know how to help you. Because you have already lost the ability to be saved by the law the moment you committed your first sin as a child was when you lost that ability

You must rely on Grace now. I pray you find it.
We are saved from the penalty of sin (justification]sanctification comes after.

And Scripture teaches being saved from their sins. So long as we are yet in our sins, we are not being saved from our sins.

God's grace is for help in time of need to overcome sin. OSAS filthy grace is for help in time of need from the penalty of the sins they continue in.

OSAS mocks God by believing in His Son to rescue from penalty of sin, but not to deliver from sin.

OSAS is the modern doctrine of salvation in sins, bringing in many damnable lies that Scripture never said: There is no Scripture speaking of salvation
from penalty of sin, but only salvation from their sins, whose penalty and wage is death.


This just goes to show you do not understand OSAS doctrine.

I know OSAS doctrine perfectly from your own words as opposed to Scripture, which show you don't know what you are believing and talking about.

OSAS doctrine is for saved sinners by filthy grace of dead faith, being alone in sins, and hidden from the blind god of this world, but not from Jesus Christ, the righteous judge of us all.

Again, this just proves you knw nothing about what OSAS teaches. Everything you have said about my faith is in error.



I believe the Scripture, you believe a twisted lie about Scripture.

You did not answer me,

Again, Paul said he who began a good work WILL COMPLETE IT. Do you believe him?

How can you see you believe it when you b y your own words tell us you believe he might fail and we can be lost and stil go t hell. AFTER he began a good work in us.

We are saved once we believe Jesus with the heart, and we are being saved by obedience to Jesus from the heart. If we continue in sin, then our faith is dead, and we are not being saved. We have mocked God with profitless faith, seeking salvation from penalty of sin, but not from sin.

Our faith is justified by works of faith in righteousness of God, no longer being in sins of the world. No man is justified in his sins. That soul is dead by them.
A child of God does NOT CONTINUE IN SIN. Have you not read the epistle of John.

Your problem is you do not understand what it means to live in sin. You think a person who breaks a command is living in sin, THATS NOT TRUE. A non believer, non child LIVE IN SIN< because it is all they know. They are out to serve self. Because they have no one who will serve them. The only one who can serve that whole that was left is Christ.

So they continually habitually live in sin trying to find something to fill that hole

I suggest you study what sin is my friend. Because that is where I see the disconnect

Those who truly repented and are saved by grace through faith do obey.
And so yo agree, there is no sin of disobedience with the elect saints of Christ, who have repented of all the sins of the world, and not just a few, and no longer continue therein, to renew them continually unto a continual repentance of mind, but not repented with the body.
So again, Your a sinless perfectionist?

your trying to earn salvation my friend. Good luck with that.

Good luck with what?
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe.

That? Mock on.

How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

There are no godly lusts nor godly sins. All sin is transgression of the law: disobeying any point of the law, which is to be guilty of all and to pay penalty of all.

OSAS tries to have salvation through faith that continues to disobey God. There is no luck involved at all.

Frankly, I would rather risk falling from grace by obedience to the law of Christ in all points, than to certainly destroy my soul by openly and willfully disobeying Him in any point, while playing the hypocrite 'good sinner' by filthy grace.

Lol. You are still trying to earn your salvation by obedience my friend.

And again, Good luck with that.

Many on that day will say Lord Lord have we not obeyed you in all these areas. Jesus will say depart from me, for I NEVER KNEW YOU.

They never had a personal relationship with God. The Never knew him and he never knew them. Because they were NEVER SAVED, nor were they ever PARTIALLY SAVED. And lost their salvation
 
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just a few verses that show were saved.

Here is the delusional crux of it all: We 'were saved', and so the race is over.

There are only two Scriptures that speak of 'are saved', which is not a past event only.

We 'are saved' is we are being saved. We began in salvation, when we believed, and we are being saved with obedience to that faith, and we will be saved in the end, having believed with obedience to the end.

Salvation is the race. It is not the beginners which recieve the crown, but only those who end the race, and end it lawfully, which is without sin and transgression of law.

OSAS thinks to mock God by cheating the race.

The good work of salvation in our souls begins through faith with the heart, and ends with eternal salvation for obeying Him from the heart.

OSAS doctrine is from the devil to derail them that had a good work began in them, and then ceased before it could be finished.

They start in faith, but do not finish in obedience to the faith.

The believe at the first, but do not obey at the last.

Jesus is the first and the last Author of eternal salvation: His salvation is not for the first starters only, but the last finishers.

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The Author begins with faith in the heart, and finishes with obedience of the body from the heart.

OSAS is salvation that begins in faith but does not finish with obedience.
Lol

My friend, Your stuck on self righteousness.

Osas teaches a man is justified by faith apart from works

Then we begin a lifetime of being sanctified in the spirit. As God grows us into his image, this does not happen over night as some believe.

I was saved from the penalty of sin. That is permanent

I am being saved from the power of sin. That is ongoing and will continue till I die. So i will continue to run the race as paul did

I will be saved from the ability of sin (glorification) when I am resurrected to life and see him face to face.

You need to study galations my friend. It would be well worth your eternity if you study pauls words about begining in the spirit and trying to perfect in the flesh.

That is what you are trying to do. And trying to get me to do. I won;t my friend. Because their is no hope in that gospel
 

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@robert derrick the last few posts you have made are false accusation against people. I will not stupe down to your level. You do not understand OSAS at all. And until you show a desire to understand what we believe, then there is no need to go further.

Good luck my friend, I will pray for you.
 

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hard for esau to even contemplate jacob’s position i guess huh
I don't know what you're getting at.
I just know this is what a saved person has faith in...

"God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood...so as to be just and the one who justifies the man who has faith in Jesus" Romans 3:25-26
That's the faith that justifies - faith in Jesus' blood.