No bashing from me....your right.. A person can backside and person can turn away from God also.
I sincerely believe the ‘once saved always saved’ concept to be taught wrong. The implication that once someone becomes a REAL Christian they are saved and that they can’t backslide or commit a sin which would rob them of that inheritance.
To the people who would say that I really wasn’t saved when I was young. I just point them back to John 3:16. I did believe in the salvation of Jesus I was very much involved with my local church.But, i had so much abuse and anger in my life, I backslided and not just a little way either!
I fell all the way into the pit and Satan had me fully in his grasp. Saved? No way. The Lord gave us the power of freewill, and I had exercised mine to be a servant of evil.
“We have nothing of our own but our will. It is the only thing which God has so placed in our own power that we can make an offering of it to Him.” St John Vianney (The Curé d’Ars – 1786-1859)
If God didn’t want us to be able to choose He would not have given us the gift of freewill. It is this gift which places us above the animals. It is this gift which allows us to choose to either worship God or not worship God. It is this gift, and only this gift, which allows us to truly love Him . It is this gift which proves that ‘once saved, always saved’ is being taught wrong.
If we are saved in spite of ourselves then there is no freewill. If there is no freewill then the Bible is wrong!
I don’t believe that the Bible is wrong...
And above is what i believe might not be the views of others