I see it all the time. Anyone who thinks salvation can be lost believes this. Because they claim the eternal life John said we have, is conditional not eternal
That's not what I meant. I'm talking about his post for
temporarty internal life, not loss of salvation. However regarding this, salvation is dependent upon having faith. Therefore, if a believer turns from faith and remains in that state, they are accumulating sin and are on their way to death. We are to have faith from beginning to end. If we turn back to the world, willfully living according to the sinful nature, that leads to separation from God and the lake of fire. We have plenty of scriptures to support this:
"My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back, consider this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and cover over a multitude of sins."
In the scripture above, "My brothers" would be addressing believers. If any brother/believer wanders from the truth (apostasy), while in that state they are accumulating sin and are on their way to death. But, if that person returns to having faith and repents, then those sins are forgiven and are saved from death. Consider the following:
"Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds because of your evil deeds. But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—
[if] indeed you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope of the gospel you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant."
"We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first."
Continuance in faith is required.
There are many, many more scriptures that I could present that demonstrate that we are saved by faith from beginning to end. If a believer turns away and remains in that state, that to leads to death. The gift is forgiveness of sins and eternal life through faith in the Lord who bought us. Therefore, faith is necessary to receive the gift. I'm not talking about stumbling as a Christian, for we all do that and all commit sin. I'm talking about those who go back into the world and who are no longer continuing in faith.
However, and as I have already said, the title of this 'temporary eternal life' which is a false term. It is either eternal life which is never ending, or eternal separation from God in the lake of fire. There is no temporary eternal life, as the title suggests.