I didn't even think of the absurdity of trying to explain the "good news" of being able to lose your salvation to someone.
I suppose you should rather try to convince them to NOT get saved too early in life if they can later on lose that salvation. It would be better to wait until you were already closer to leaving.
The REAL Good News is much better than this. The Real Good News says that once a person is a sheep of the Lord NO ONE can remove them from His Hand. That means once you have faith in Christ He is Really serious about that.
In the humanistic view anything is possible. We are responsible for getting saved. We are responsible for staying saved. We have to persevere. We have to produce fruit. We have to do all the extra credit required to be extra holy and extra saved.
But that view is changed when we are Saved by the Lord Jesus Christ. The vail comes off and when we study the bible and pray we know by our own experience that it is by the Lord that we are blessed. We don't have the power to save ourselves. We don't have the power to keep ourselves saved. We find out that we must rely on Christ for all of our spiritual blessings.
I suppose you should rather try to convince them to NOT get saved too early in life if they can later on lose that salvation. It would be better to wait until you were already closer to leaving.
The REAL Good News is much better than this. The Real Good News says that once a person is a sheep of the Lord NO ONE can remove them from His Hand. That means once you have faith in Christ He is Really serious about that.
In the humanistic view anything is possible. We are responsible for getting saved. We are responsible for staying saved. We have to persevere. We have to produce fruit. We have to do all the extra credit required to be extra holy and extra saved.
But that view is changed when we are Saved by the Lord Jesus Christ. The vail comes off and when we study the bible and pray we know by our own experience that it is by the Lord that we are blessed. We don't have the power to save ourselves. We don't have the power to keep ourselves saved. We find out that we must rely on Christ for all of our spiritual blessings.
As in Galatians, there were non believers trying to be justified by the flesh, and believers who were trying to be sanctified by the flesh. Nothing changes, as we see this today also, how some believers have become entangled again in the bondage they were set free from. I think the result is they will not grow, and of course they will have no joy either, since they're always fretting, and unable to truly rest in Christ. How can one share the gospel if they themselves are fretting?
There are so many scriptures offering assurance to believers, so God knew there would be believers that would end up doubting their security, as a result of listening to teachers. The lost definitely have no assurance though, because they're not saved.
Some depend on their own understanding, especially when they favor their view over the scriptures. And because scripture is flawless, when you're in error another scripture will come up to correct said error, but usually what happens is the person twists that correction, so then another comes up to correct them, and they twist again. God does have a sense of humor though... the bible is put together in such a way that He will allow a person to get tangled up in their own messy web if this is what they choose. One could twist the scriptures enough to where the scriptures sadly become like a fairytale.