The Greatest Lie Ever Told: You’re Fine Just as You Are

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bdavidc

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If that were true God's Word wouldn't have all the warnings about it.

The Galatians were born again and then fell from grace, but I know the the security in sin crowd does their best to explain that away
At no point in my posts did I write or imply that “you can live in unrepentant habitual sin and still go to heaven.” That is not what I believe, and it's not what I’m teaching. In fact, I said the exact opposite. I made it very clear that those who continue in sin without repentance were never truly saved to begin with. The gospel is not about giving people a license to sin, it’s about making dead sinners alive by grace through faith, which results in a changed life. Real salvation transforms a person. If someone claims to believe but lives in unrepentant sin, there’s no biblical evidence they were ever saved (1 John 3:6; 2 Corinthians 5:17).

Yes, born-again believers do still sin, but they repent. They don’t live in rebellion against God. They’re convicted, they’re disciplined (Hebrews 12:6-8), and they’re being sanctified over time. The difference is that their lives are marked by repentance and growth, not a pattern of willful disobedience.

Accusing me of being part of a “security in sin crowd” is dishonest and shows you didn’t actually read or engage with what I wrote. You’re reacting to a phrase you don’t like, not to the content of the post. Eternal security does not mean sin is tolerated, it means those who are truly saved are kept by God and bear fruit that proves their faith is real (John 15:5-6; Matthew 7:16-23). If there’s no fruit, there’s no salvation.

You're misrepresenting both the gospel and the warnings in Scripture. The reason God gives so many warnings is because not everyone who claims to believe is actually saved, Jesus Himself said, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 7:21). The warnings are there to expose false converts, not to suggest that true believers can lose what God has secured. Galatians “falling from grace” (Galatians 5:4) is not about losing salvation but about turning from the gospel of grace to a false gospel of works. Paul was confronting legalists, not backsliders who lost salvation. If someone walks away, it's because they were never truly in Christ to begin with (1 John 2:19). As for the “security in sin crowd,” that’s a straw man. No one who understands the gospel would teach that a person can remain in unrepentant sin and be saved. True believers are not sinless, but they don’t live in sin either. They are convicted, they repent, they grow. If there’s no change, there was no salvation. God doesn’t halfway save anyone.
 

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those who continue in sin without repentance show they were never truly born again

According to God's Word, one can actually get truly saved and then fall away and end up going to hell due to their failure to repent and come back to the Lord.



those who are truly saved are kept by God’s power

More false doctrine... this is accusing God of failing to "keep" some people and if some fall away it's God's fault.

We are to be co-laborers with the Lord meaning man does have a part to play in salvation as in choosing to abide in Christ which is done thru the power of God's Word and the Holy Spirit... as man must choose to continually submit themselves to the Lord since God did actually give man free will when He created man in His Own Image

None the less man has the ability to turn away and God will let them go if they fail to repent and come back to Him.

None of this means they were never truly saved.



not sinless perfection

More false doctrine that claims we all sin a little here and there and we just can't help it...

You've been falsely taught from so called reformed theology that mixes lies with truth

Maybe someday you'll become FULL Gospel accepting all the Lord says in His Word.

Let me guess, you hold calvin, luther, and augustine in high regard believing they are of the Lord?