Do you teach you can lose salvation....YES
What must be done to gain it back...?
What must you do to keep it...?
What must you do to earn it back...?
Not holding anything against anybody means if you wrong me, call me names, do something to me I will not hold it against you....at the end of the day, no matter how you slice it and dice it you r salvation is based upon what YOU DO if you believe you can LOSE it....
Galatians 2:16-21 states clearly that my salvation and justification is based upon the FAITH OF JESUS....
Is the faith of JESUS perfect? YES
Is the faith of Jesus ETERNAL? YES
Does the faith of JESUS ever fail? NO
Is the FAITH of JESUS acceptable unto the FATHER? YES
Does the faith of JESUS meet the Father's expectations? YES
I am SAVED by the PERFECT FAITH of JESUS....I am JUSTIFIED by the perfect faith of JESUS
To say you can lose salvation is to deny the above concerning the faith of JESUS.....
That is my view, it cannot be changed, will not be changed and is in accordance with the BIBLE!
DC, can a person who had faith in what Jesus did on the cross, then lose faith in what Jesus did on the cross and walk away from God and never return and die in their unbelief?
Are you stating that a Man like Charles Templeton was OSAS? despite the fact he publicly disavowed his faith in what Jesus did on the cross and rejected him?
I do not believe a person can lose their salvation based on not doing Christian works. tthat is works based salvation and nothing more than self righteousness and sin conciseness false doctrine.
I do believe that a person can do what Templeton did and you better believe he died in his unbelief and is now in hell, because he once believed he was saved by God's grace through his own faith, but his faith became shipwrecked and he lost it. His last book is titled:
Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith.
I believe Templeton is proof positive of what the author of Heb 6.4-6 was telling us:
[SUP]4 [/SUP]For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
[SUP]5 [/SUP]And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
[SUP]6 [/SUP]If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
IN summary, I do not believe in works based salvation or the salvation is a set of conditional works I must do to claim it. I believe we are saved by God's grace through our faith and that Jesus work on the cross and nothing= everything.
I do believe a son or daughter of God can walk away from salvation and lose their faith and if not won back will die in unbelief....Jesus told us unbelief in him is the unpardonable sin. Romans 10.9-10 tell us this as well.
The Bible shows us in very stunning detail, that unbelief and lack of faith in the Redemptive work Christ did on the cross is a sum zero game.
God's grace stops at unbelief, because without faith it is impossible to please Him.....period.
Works based conditional salvation predicated upon personal performance is a lie straight from hell as is OSAS.....walking away from your faith and cursing the redemptive work Jesus did on the cross is as Jesus stated to the pharisees....the unpardonable SIN.