Christian Soldier
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You were mistaken in thinking I was making the claim you claim I was making.

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You were mistaken in thinking I was making the claim you claim I was making.
How it got into so many Bible believing churches is my question..According to this documentary, OSAS originated with the Gnostics, was constantly being refuted by the early church, and was unknown in the Church until the 5th century when Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, a former Gnostic, brought it into the church.
00:01:36 "Believers in OSAS invariably take the high ground historically as though they're defending the historic faith. This is incredibly dishonest. That's because before Augustine's novel teachings in the early 5th century, absolutely no one in the early church believed in once saved always saved. I know of no patristic scholar or church historian who disputes that fact."
00:03:22 "The early church fathers actually warned against the idea of OSAS because that doctrine was not found within any Christian churches at the time; it was found among the Gnostics. ... in their refutations of the Gnostics, they would mention how these Gnostics believed that you could never fall away from the faith..."
The devil knows the Bible, too--he knows how to twist it--that's how!How it got into so many Bible believing churches is my question..
Satan loves it when OSAS is misused to promote a license for immortality. On the flip side, Satan loves it when NOSAS is misused to promote salvation by works at the back door. The pendulum is capable of swinging too far in either direction.Satan loves OSAS!
:Rolleyes:Satan loves OSAS!
According to this documentary, OSAS originated with the Gnostics,
No.Quoting an OSAS member of this forum:
"Salvation is a gift ....” God's Gifts are without recall”
If I died when I didn’t believe I would have gone to Heaven because there was One Time That I DID Believe.....that’s all it takes...."
Well then I can't lose if I'm wrong. Can't say the same for OSASers tho.No.
Heartful Belief at the TIME of Death is the Paramount Fixed Standard.
Absolutely God “GIVING” His Gift of Salvation is Without Recall.
You have a scenario of believing, and then not believing and receiving Salvation without Bellief…Well then I can't lose if I'm wrong. Can't say the same for OSASers tho.
Luke 13:23-24
23 Then one said to Him, "Lord, are there few who are saved?" And He said to them,
24 "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Yes I know, OSASers always accuse non OSASers who depart from the Faith of never being saved. That's total baloney!You have a scenario of believing, and then not believing and receiving Salvation without Bellief…
Do you not understand “ what God is all knowing Means? “
That “belief blip” does not fool God! He already knows who will believe and who will not.
It is MEN who decide and choose and then know, during their Lifetime.
Uh huh.
Deuteronomy 32:5 denies this.Let me show the real Christian how to get out of a deception that you've been taught that is related to this phrase "OSAS".
Think of it like this..
"once Born again........always born again".........
See that?
That is a eternal fact., and that is why eternal security is the same thing.....
God bless you to understand it.
So is it your position God is fooled, Giving His Gift of Salvation to men, who will Once Again Stand Against God ?Yes I know, OSASers always accuse non OSASers who depart from the Faith of never being saved. That's total baloney!
Deuteronomy 32:5 denies this.
Also, Matthew 18, which shows the forgiveness that has already had its effect can also be rescinded so that its effect is reversed, so that the one who had previously received forgiveness now has to pay for his sins just as any other unbeliever.
Irrelevant : the things that happened to them happened to them to teach us about how God relates to His people. If not, then reprimand Paul for starting a "cult", since he taught about how God relates to His people in the NT using OT (1 Corinthians 10).No one in Deut 32:5 is born again.
There are no "Christians" in the Old Testament.....
What deranged CULT has led you to believe, differently.. @GracePeace ???
You should leave this cult, and never look back.
The unforgiving servant (Mt 18) "unbecame" a Christian--God "forgot" his righteousness, as Ezekiel 18:24 says, except, in this case (in the NT), "faith is counted as righteousness", so his faith was forgotten, so it became that he was always an unbeliever--so I wasn't saying a "Christian" pays for his sins.
Ro 2 warns the Jewish believers they will reap "wrath", not "eternal life", for their sins. Ro 8:12,13 says Christians who live after the flesh, not after the spirit, will die and not live--sin leads to death (Ro 5, 6).Now, if a Christian behaves badly, consequences follow, as "reaping what you've sown" is a fact..
"My position" is to be safe. "STRIVE to enter in" God's Kingdom.So is it your position God is fooled, Giving His Gift of Salvation to men, who will Once Again Stand Against God ?
Sure."My position" is to be safe. "STRIVE to enter in" God's Kingdom.