I'm skipping most of the posts, just to add that I went to churches for many years that believed you could lose your salvation. It was a very judgmental and negative environment. People were sinning on Saturday and getting re-saved on Sunday. Or so they thought.
But I kept holding onto God's promises and reading the Bible. After reading it about 50 times, plus in Greek and Hebrew, I came to realize that Arminianism was a heresy, and that it was a doctrine of condemnation.
Like the OP from Romans 8, I have found this passage and many other verses support eternal security. Of course, you must be really walking with God. God must have really saved you. A sinner's prayer at a crusade or church is not necessarily my definition of salvation.
Like Bonhoeffer, I believe justification is only by faith.
"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:1
But also like Bonhoeffer, I believe we must obey the living Lord we follow and serve! If we aren't follow the Lord, are we truly saved in the first place? Grace is free, but it is costly!
I wonder why this topic just keeps coming up over and over again?
But I kept holding onto God's promises and reading the Bible. After reading it about 50 times, plus in Greek and Hebrew, I came to realize that Arminianism was a heresy, and that it was a doctrine of condemnation.
Like the OP from Romans 8, I have found this passage and many other verses support eternal security. Of course, you must be really walking with God. God must have really saved you. A sinner's prayer at a crusade or church is not necessarily my definition of salvation.
Like Bonhoeffer, I believe justification is only by faith.
"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Romans 5:1
But also like Bonhoeffer, I believe we must obey the living Lord we follow and serve! If we aren't follow the Lord, are we truly saved in the first place? Grace is free, but it is costly!
I wonder why this topic just keeps coming up over and over again?
Actually, when each passage is considered in context none of them support OSAS.