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No it is not.
the problem is, the man who lost all eternal reward is still saved. The man who is not born again, will have no reward to lose. he is lost.
I was baptised with the HS 40 years ago when he baptised me into CHrist, His death and burial and his body.
Why do you keep coming up with these odd verses? Is this what Epi shows you all to make you miss what is being said?
One must be born again...as a mantra? For what? Do you have any idea what being born again is and for what purpose? For you it seems...it's just a...must.
Why is anything that doesn't say "born again" or "saved" just an odd scripture? If it doesn't support your religious indoctrination it's not important? How wise is to throw away God's instructions and warnings?
Those whose works will be burned up and suffer loss...........will involuntarily lose the reward of their labours because they were building incorrectly, but they themselves will still be saved (it's assuming they truly know Christ). That's all it is saying....it is not talking about the loss of things that we willingly lose to gain Christ, which Paul spoke of in the Philippians verses. Two different ideas are being spoken of. One kind of loss is punitive and involves loss of reward, the other kind of loss is pleasing to God brings reward.
To be made into new wineskins that hold the new wine. To be made into new creatures, born of the Spirit, created after the image of he who created us. It's necessary to be saved.
This is a protestant error. An invention by self-interpreters. You will find no such doctrine in the bible. The obsession with the word "saved" is part of the indoctrination...to be repeated over and over and put into every sentence. The more one says "saved" the more one is saved...obviously.
What I deny is the excessive religiosity, self-righteous claims, and hypocritical judgments that takes good sounding verses for the ego....and denies the truth of the warnings and instructions found in the passages that don't say "saved" or "born-again.
I coudn't get past the OT reference to zion saying that is what born again means.
projecting again as you are the one making all of the false claims, unbiblical teachings all the while claiming to be a prophet sent by God. the ego is coming from you who will not accept any correction or even consider that you might be wrong. that is the very nature of pride the same type the Pharisees were guilty of epi. You might be able to fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time. the majority of astute bible students are not buying what you are peddling which is why most here oppose your false teachings/claims/ideas.
You will find that most cults, false teachers will change the meaning of biblical words to fit their false doctrines. Its why I post the definitions from lexicons and he avoids them like the plague and refuses to define anything when I ask him because he knows he cannot support it with Scripture or the Biblical Lexicons. He tried it the other day with an english word in a translation he thought was the same in the Greek in the other passage and it wasn't. So his whole argument built upon sinking sand sank since it had no foundation. It was on the Armor of God in Ephesians 6 that he tried to defend from another passage that had nothing to do with Gods armor in Ephesians 6.
Thank you for posting because I hadn’t seen it. Do I agree with everything said? No. I hear things differently and yes that makes me concerned. (Before that is misunderstood and turned into something I did not mean, it concerns me because I do question my perspective). But I loved where epi brought up the disciples being told one would betray Christ, and how they each responded “is it I?” That part stood out to me as a good reminder I needed to hear; “is it I?” Love also what epi said after that about asking God to search the heart.
Mixing truth with error is the exact way the enemy operates otherwise he would not be able to deceive anyone. He did it in the garden causing them to doubt God and tried but failed with Jesus. Its his method, his way of scheming and deceiving.
