Christian Soldier
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There's no such thing as Christianizing the gospel, no man including Augustine has any authority to impose his private view to pervert or change anything about the gospel which Christ gave His people.
The presentation says the early church, for hundreds of years, fought OSAS as a heresy of the Gnostics--until Augustine, a former Gnostic, Christianized it.
We disagree that Jesus teaches OSAS (eg, Matthew 18 the parable of the unforgiving servant).
There are at least 120 verses of scripture which confirm OSAS. If your willing to deny Gods Word and believe what those who deny His word say, then that's your personal choice.
The parable of the unforgiving servant in Matt 18 confirms OSAS, because Gods elect are lead by His Holy Spirit and every one of us forgives our fellow servants. So that parable is speaking about those who made a profession of faith but their profession was a lie and it was confirmed by the fact that they were not indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
A born again believer, receives the Holy Spirit. A person who is indwelt by the Holy Spirit is lead by the Holy Spirit. That means we no longer do things our way and we don't take the law into our hands. We become followers of Christ, His Holy Spirit leads the way and we just follow Him. To suggest that a follower of Christ would not forgive a fellow servant, is to suggest that we don't obey our Lord and that means His Holy Spirit is not in us.
Born again believers are not free to sin, as those who made false professions of faith are. We are possessed by the Holy Spirit so our lives are not our own to do what we want. We can only do what the Holy Spirit allows us to do. So we forgive our fellow servants, because we have been forgiven much more by God. I broke every one of Gods commandments and He forgave me, so I would be extremely wicked if I didn't forgive my fellow servant for a small thing.