Now let's see if your THEORY we are saved by grace through faith....through faith implies an on going process; hold any water, or if it is just pure FALSE DOCTRINE. Here goes, I am putting your theory to the TEST of Scripture, and the first one is in the verse you quoted:
Ephesians 2:8-9 (HCSB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] For you are saved {past tense verbiage} by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—
[SUP]9 [/SUP] not from works, so that no one can boast.
That makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
Romans 5:9-11 (ESV)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
[SUP]10 [/SUP] For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
[SUP]11 [/SUP] More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
Romans 8:24 (NASB)
[SUP]24 [/SUP] For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
Ephesians 2:5 (ASV)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
Luke 19:9-10 (HCSB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] “Today salvation has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham.
[SUP]10 [/SUP] For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
John 6:47 (HCSB)
[SUP]47 [/SUP] “I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life.
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
John 5:24 (HCSB)
[SUP]24[/SUP] “I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
ETC.
I am sorry, but we have put your theory to the Test of Scripture, and your theory has been proven to be a FALSE DOCTRINE.
Ephesians 2:8-9 (HCSB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] For you are saved {past tense verbiage} by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—
[SUP]9 [/SUP] not from works, so that no one can boast.
That makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
Romans 5:9-11 (ESV)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
[SUP]10 [/SUP] For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
[SUP]11 [/SUP] More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
Romans 8:24 (NASB)
[SUP]24 [/SUP] For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
Ephesians 2:5 (ASV)
[SUP]5 [/SUP] even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
Luke 19:9-10 (HCSB)
[SUP]9 [/SUP] “Today salvation has come to this house,” Jesus told him, “because he too is a son of Abraham.
[SUP]10 [/SUP] For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
John 6:47 (HCSB)
[SUP]47 [/SUP] “I assure you: Anyone who believes has eternal life.
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
John 5:24 (HCSB)
[SUP]24[/SUP] “I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.
The Past Tense Verbiage makes the theory of an "on going process of Salvation", a FALSE DOCTRINE.
ETC.
I am sorry, but we have put your theory to the Test of Scripture, and your theory has been proven to be a FALSE DOCTRINE.
Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
1 Peter 1:13
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus ChristMatthew 24:13
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
Romans 6:22
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Hebrews 3:6
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Hebrews 3:14
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
Hebrews 6:11
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
Revelation 2:26
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: