Proven once again!
Persons that believe in cheap grace and easy believism, just like you do, are always believers in OSAS.
Never have understood why.
Maybe they know they sin.
Maybe they'd like to sin.
Certainly I can't know.
I DO know that OSAS is nowhere to be found in the NT and those that believe as you do should adjust their belief system to be in accordance with the NT.
The NT demands that we obey God.
For the very reason that
@GracePeace stated to you:
IF we remained in Christ AUTOMATICALLY....Paul and the other writers, including Jesus Himself, would not have found it necessary to exhort us to good behavior.
Matthew 5:16
16In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Romans 13:14
14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
Matthew 7:21
21“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
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OSAS - Once a person is saved, they are always saved, also known as eternal security, the peace that surpasses all understanding, Eternal life. Sealed by the spirit
1. For God so loved the world he gave his only sin that whoever believes in him
will NEVER PERISH (OSAS) and Has Eternal Life (OSAS)
2. He
who believes in the Son has everlasting life; (OSAS) he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”
3. Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him
will never thirst. But the water that
I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (OSAS)
4. “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me
has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life (OSAS)
5. And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life.
He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. (OSAS)
6. This is the will of the Father who sent Me,
that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. (OSAS) And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may
have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” (OSAS)
7. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me
has everlasting life. (OSAS) I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that
one may eat of it and not die. (
OSAS)I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread,
he will live forever;(OSAS)
8. Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, (OSAS) just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that
we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, (
OSAS) having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which
He made us accepted in the Beloved. (OSAS)
9. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may
know that you have eternal life, (OSAS) and that you may
continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
There are many more. But I pray you get the point
