Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: aa384@cleveland.freenet.edu (Doug Wokoun) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Once Saved, Always Saved? Message-ID: Date: 24 Dec 90 09:06:16 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 52 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu moorer@nyssa.cs.orst.edu (Rocky Moore): >This is just a small sample list of many scriputre (in old and new testaments) >which can be used to deny the "Once Saved" theology. It only matter how far >you open your eyes... I think some of your scripture references were skirting the issue, or missing it altogether. Some had nothing to do with salvation. The Bible is very clear on the issue: 2 Timothy 2:13 "If we are faithless, He remains faithful; for He cannot deny Himself." I Corinthians 3:11-15 "For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds upon the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man's work will become evident; for the day will show it, because it is to be revealed with fire; and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If any man's work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; _but_he_ _himself_shall_be_saved_, yet so as through fire." I Corinthians 6:9-11 "Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you; _but_you_were_washed,_but_you_were_ _sanctified,_but_you_were_justified_in_the_name_of_the_Lord_Jesus_Christ,_ _and_in_the_Spirit_of_our_God._" Ephesians 1:13-14 "In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation -- having also believed, [note: past tense] you were _sealed_ in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory." Emphasis mine through all passages - - - "The New Testament is altogether clear that maintaining our faith in God involves a struggle whose outcome is not guaranteed simply by the fact that we are saved. Instead, fighting the good fight of faith is what the spiritual conflict is really all about. To think otherwise is to invite defeat on the spiritual battlefield." - Zane Hodges, _Absolutely_Free_. -- Doug Wokoun / / _o___o_o_|_.|_.| (aa384@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) (o)-(o) ((((( Dug )))))____o__o_|_.|_.|_.|_.|_.| ||| L __o______|_.|_.|_.|_.|_.|_.|_.|_,| Atari / | \ S I G \___/ |_.|_.|_.|_.|_.|_.|_.|_.|_.|_.|_.|