True, but many have died, and will die, with unrepented sin. However, don't you think that maybe a loving and merciful God WILL give us one last chance to repent before he judges us? I do. 
Once saved, always saved. Chosen elect of God?
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That sounds cool but to me if that's true then people could just get by with being lukewarm and at the end ask forgiveness and walk on into heaven. If that's the case I been trying way to hard to live by all of God's word
J
True, but many have died, and will die, with unrepented sin. However, don't you think that maybe a loving and merciful God WILL give us one last chance to repent before he judges us? I do.
2) Have you set yourself up against him in your heart after understanding who he is beyond a shadow of a doubt?
I am not accusing you, I am establishing something. If 1) is true then you are saved regardless of your flaws. If 2) is true then you are on the fast track to hell. IJS.
Blaspheming the Son can be forgiven. Blaspheming the Spirit has serious consequences.
Excuse you.. Nobody made me the expert. It just doesn't make sense to have to get saved over and over again. Jesus didn't hang on the cross more than once, OBVIOUSLY.. We ALL live in sin, yes even as Christians. And (most of) we repent of those sins. Obviously a believer is saved, and saved ONCE. Not a ten million time deal. Repentance is the key to being and remaining saved. Like I said, I believe we will be given one last chance to repent at the final judgment. We all "have left the protective arms of Jesus" at one time or another. It's called stumbling off the path. But He stands there patiently, and waits for us to return to Him. And indeed, who BELIEVES in Him shall not perish. I don't take anything lightly. Ask anyone on this site..
And (most of) we repent of those sins. Obviously a believer is saved, and saved ONCE. Not a ten million time deal. Repentance is the key to being and remaining saved. Like I said, I believe we will be given one last chance to repent at the final judgment. We all "have left the protective arms of Jesus" at one time or another. It's called stumbling off the path. But He stands there patiently, and waits for us to return to Him. And indeed, who BELIEVES in Him shall not perish. I don't take anything lightly. Ask anyone on this site..
I think you misunderstand what loss of salvation is. You don't lose your salvation every time you sin. Did someone here say that? Certainly I didn't.
When I say that we need to stay in the protecting arms of Jesus I mean exactly for the reason that we DO sin and He is there to protect us. We "put Him on" for our protection.
Galatians 3:27 and Romans 13:14 speak to this. If we keep Jesus, God will see His Son and not us. Jesus is our protection.
Galatians 3:27
"For all of you who were baptized into Christ have CLOTHED yourselves with Christ." NASB
It's in abandoning this protection that salvation is lost. It's when we grieve the Holy Spirit by denying the Holy Spirit and by denying God and His Son.
We don't get saved and lose salvation and then get salvation and lose salvation, etc. by sinning. This is a silly concept.
You're correct in saying that repentance is the key. We repent, ask forgiveness and continue. Even if we died before we asked forgiveness, we would still be saved by our Lord.
About the one last chance... This is off topic. But let me ask you this, WHO WOULD NOT accept salvation at that point???!!! He'd have to be the biggest idiot on earth to have God standing before him and he turns God down to go to hell !
What about Hebrews 9:27?
"...It is appointed for man to die once and after this c omes judgment." NASB
I do believe that YOU also said that if a person stops believing in God, he would no longer be saved. If I've understood this correctly, then I'd have to say that we agree.
Fran
1. Yes I am a work in progress. We all are. After all I've been through in recent years, yes I feel much stronger in my faith than I was before? And I certainly hope that my works are more solid.
2. Trick question. It's impossible to understand who God is beyond a shadow of a doubt. In all His mysterious ways and intricacies, more than my mind can comprehend.
After all I've been through in recent years, yes I feel much stronger in my faith than I was before? And I certainly hope that my works are more solid. 2. Trick question. It's impossible to understand who God is beyond a shadow of a doubt.
In all His mysterious ways and intricacies, more than my mind can comprehend. 
J
1. Yes I am a work in progress. We all are. After all I've been through in recent years, yes I feel much stronger in my faith than I was before? And I certainly hope that my works are more solid.
2. Trick question. It's impossible to understand who God is beyond a shadow of a doubt. In all His mysterious ways and intricacies, more than my mind can comprehend.
After all I've been through in recent years, yes I feel much stronger in my faith than I was before? And I certainly hope that my works are more solid. 2. Trick question. It's impossible to understand who God is beyond a shadow of a doubt.
In all His mysterious ways and intricacies, more than my mind can comprehend.
It's difficult to comprehend the truth? News to me.
Then the biggest idiots on earth would be satan worshippers, and those who don't/won't believe in God. And I was taught that the ONLY way to lose salvation was to deny God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. That's what I said that those that flat out refuse to believe in Jesus, can (might) lose salvation..
How did He create a rainbow, with it's glorious colors? How did He allow an animal to talk? If someone admitted animals talk today, they would be carted off to the psych ward.. And no human is capable of creating of such an awesome symbol as the rainbow. How could he, as a parent, make the decision to let his son be crucified on a cross? I know WHY He did it, but I can't comprehend HOW in the concept that no human parent would EVER willingly let their child be tortured and murdered..
These are some of the things my mind can't comprehend.
And no human is capable of creating of such an awesome symbol as the rainbow. How could he, as a parent, make the decision to let his son be crucified on a cross? I know WHY He did it, but I can't comprehend HOW in the concept that no human parent would EVER willingly let their child be tortured and murdered..These are some of the things my mind can't comprehend.
How did He create a rainbow, with it's glorious colors? How did He allow an animal to talk? If someone admitted animals talk today, they would be carted off to the psych ward.. And no human is capable of creating of such an awesome symbol as the rainbow. How could he, as a parent, make the decision to let his son be crucified on a cross? I know WHY He did it, but I can't comprehend HOW in the concept that no human parent would EVER willingly let their child be tortured and murdered..
These are some of the things my mind can't comprehend.
And no human is capable of creating of such an awesome symbol as the rainbow. How could he, as a parent, make the decision to let his son be crucified on a cross? I know WHY He did it, but I can't comprehend HOW in the concept that no human parent would EVER willingly let their child be tortured and murdered..These are some of the things my mind can't comprehend.