So the argument for OSAS is that salvation is a gift (Eph. 2:8) and since "the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable" (Rom. 11:29) then that means that OSAS (eternal security) is true.
If that is true, I suggested two more "truths":
First one:
I Cor. 7:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
So circumcision or uncircumcision is a "calling" and if the "gifts and calling" of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29 )then we will be circumcised or uncircumcised in heaven as we are here on Earth.
Second one:
And prophecy is a gift - and since the "gifts and calling of God" are irrevocable then that means if you have the gift of prophecy now you will have it for all eternity. !!! ??? but this is not what I Corinthians 13 says about prophecy: Verse 8 says: "But where there are prophecies, they will cease;"
Obviously there are problems with both of these: and like I said in an earlier post there are many more "truths" that we can find by stringing the words of different verses together.
You can see above for the conversation I had with dcontroversal about this: he hasn't answered . . . except for just reiterating that OSAS is true!
This post is not so much about arguing for or against OSAS. My major concern is that our doctrine comes from a clear straight forward understanding of Scripture in the context in which it is written, and does not come from stringing verses together.
If that is true, I suggested two more "truths":
First one:
I Cor. 7:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.
So circumcision or uncircumcision is a "calling" and if the "gifts and calling" of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29 )then we will be circumcised or uncircumcised in heaven as we are here on Earth.
Second one:
And prophecy is a gift - and since the "gifts and calling of God" are irrevocable then that means if you have the gift of prophecy now you will have it for all eternity. !!! ??? but this is not what I Corinthians 13 says about prophecy: Verse 8 says: "But where there are prophecies, they will cease;"
Obviously there are problems with both of these: and like I said in an earlier post there are many more "truths" that we can find by stringing the words of different verses together.
You can see above for the conversation I had with dcontroversal about this: he hasn't answered . . . except for just reiterating that OSAS is true!
This post is not so much about arguing for or against OSAS. My major concern is that our doctrine comes from a clear straight forward understanding of Scripture in the context in which it is written, and does not come from stringing verses together.
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