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You are the one who threw out there first belittling those who believe as the bible shows that one can depart from the faith in the Lord and not end up with eternal life.
You can deny over 20 scriptures in the NT speaking on departing, falling away, apostasy, and not continuing in the faith but I will continue to believe all of God's written word.
When it shows clearly over and over again that those who walk by the Spirit (fruit of which will be evident) there is no condemnation, but those who continue or return to walking in the flesh are still under bondage and condemnation.
We can not deny the whole written Word of God, and we can not just willy-nilly cast away multiple scriptures that shows the morality/standards/attitudes that true believers will show in our lives.
No place in the bible gives place for believers in the Lord Jesus to be: disrespectful, demeaning, condemning, hateful, and repay a person sin for sin.
We are told we are created to walk in good works and we are also told that we are to encouraged to provoke others to do good works (Hebrews 10:24). There is still a consequence for disobedience !!!
You can deny over 20 scriptures in the NT speaking on departing, falling away, apostasy, and not continuing in the faith but I will continue to believe all of God's written word.
When it shows clearly over and over again that those who walk by the Spirit (fruit of which will be evident) there is no condemnation, but those who continue or return to walking in the flesh are still under bondage and condemnation.
We can not deny the whole written Word of God, and we can not just willy-nilly cast away multiple scriptures that shows the morality/standards/attitudes that true believers will show in our lives.
No place in the bible gives place for believers in the Lord Jesus to be: disrespectful, demeaning, condemning, hateful, and repay a person sin for sin.
We are told we are created to walk in good works and we are also told that we are to encouraged to provoke others to do good works (Hebrews 10:24). There is still a consequence for disobedience !!!
Under the filling of the Spirit, the Spirit does not produce good works through the believer to maintain salvation. He knows, believes and inspired John 5:24.
There is discipline for the believer. Not condemnation. The problem is that most believers lightly regard the discipline of the Lord.
King Saul is a perfect example of someone who fell away from the faith, departed from the faith and we see divine discipline administered to Him for it. But not condemnation.
The reason we can fall away from the faith and still be saved? Because it is not our faith that saved us, it is the object (Christ)of our faith that saved us. There is absolutely, positively no merit in our faith, the merit is in our Savior.