That is what the OSAS folk here are not getting. They are saying.... it is impossible to stop sinning. You will always sin. So a believing child who comes across this website and hears an OSAS proponent say such a thing is going to be led into thinking they can sin and still be saved.
So they would be actively leading a believing child into sin.
But Jesus said it would be better if a millstone would be tied around their neck and they were to drown at sea than to do so.
That is what people are not realizing here.
They have no idea of the depths of evil their belief goes (Which makes an allowance for evil).
2Pe 2:9
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
This is what many do not believe. Many cannot conceive a possibility of resisting temptation every single time which is what God requires us to do.
1Co 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
There is always a way of escape and we are to take it. Through abiding in the Spirit of life in Jesus Christ we have everything we need to walk in purity before God. We may stumble due to ignorance and thus be in need of correction, but as for willful sin resultant of yielding to temptation, it is out of the question.
Paul referred to people who were wells without water who would speak great words of emptiness. People who "cannot cease from sin." Many of these characteristics match what we see today in with many who profess to be Christians.
2Pe 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
2Pe 2:11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
2Pe 2:12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2Pe 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
2Pe 2:14
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
2Pe 2:15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
2Pe 2:16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
2Pe 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
Look at what Paul writes next...
2Pe 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
2Pe 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
2Pe 2:20 For if after they have
escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2Pe 2:21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2Pe 2:22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
People like this serve to draw those who genuinely escaped the pollutions of the world back into those pollutions, woe to those who are drawn back because their end is worse than the beginning because a second repentance is much more difficult than the first due to the second offense being done from a state of full knowledge, not from a state of ignorance like when we first sold ourselves into sin and continued therein.
Paul wrote...
2Ti 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
A time would come when sound doctrine would not be endured. People would heap to themselves a multitude of teacher whom would tickle their ears, and they would turn to fables.
Fables like...
Penal Substitution
Imputed Righteousness of Christ
Original Sin (Sin you will and sin you must)
Fables which serve as a root to give birth to teachings like OSAS.
Paul spoke of having to "fight the good fight" and "finishing the course" and of "keeping the faith." Due to this he perceived that a crown of righteousness was laid up for him. Teach such a thing today and many will call it self righteousness, such sadness for the way things have turned out today.
2Ti 4:5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
2Ti 4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
2Ti 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
2Ti 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
The words of Jesus pertaining to striving, counting the cost, keeping his word, doing the will of the Father, losing our life to find it, digging deep, not looking back, sinning no more are all rejected via a petition to modern false doctrines.
The delusion is really so obvious and yet it is so hidden at the same time.
If one is convinced that a "provisional salvation" was put into effect via a "legal transaction" wrought through the cross where basically people perceive themselves as "swapping places with Jesus" and that all they have to do is "trust in that" to be initially saved then their mind is fully immunised to the very words of Jesus.
Mat 7:22
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
The OSAS profess to be workers of iniquity and despise those who claim to have departed from iniquity. In their mind no-one can depart from iniquity because we are all born sinners whereby sin is an issue of the flesh. Thus, in their mind, if we say we have no sin (ie. we say we are not a worker if iniquity) then there is no truth in us. Yet John is speaking of "sin to our account" as in "past sins" for we have to come clean with God in confessing our rebellion. It is in coming clean with God n repentance that we are raised up to newness of life and given everything we need to walk blameless before God having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
Up is down. Down is up. Left is right and right is left. Everything is turned on its head today. Only Satan would tell people to stop sinning right? Only Satan would tell people that it is possible to be truly set free from sin right? That is what many would have everyone else believe.
2Ti 3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2Ti 3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy,
2Ti 3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good,
2Ti 3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
2Ti 3:5
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
2Ti 3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
2Ti 3:7
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2Ti 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth:
men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
2Ti 3:9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
2Ti 3:10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
2Ti 3:11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
2Ti 3:12 Yea, and
all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
2Ti 3:13 But
evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
2Ti 3:14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
2Ti 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2Ti 3:17 That
the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
1Ti 1:5 Now
the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: