NOTE: This thread is NOT about debating OSAS vs non-OSAS.
Now that we got that out of the way, lets dive into it:
When i attend, I attend a pentecostal service. And as many of you probably know, I disagree with some of the stuff they teach, but I will not bring this up because I dont want to cause strife and division, because im not a pastor, im just a regular guy.
However, I have often heard people who say you can lose your salvation quote Hebrews 6:4-6 and Hebrews 10:26 as a proof text.
Now lets assume for argument's sake that those verses mean exactly the way those who believe in conditional security believe they mean: WHY do so many pentecostals and others who believe you can lose your salvation ALSO believe you can GET IT BACK?
Because Hebrews 6:4-6 specifically says its IMPOSSIBLE to renew them again to repentance? So why all this talk for example about David losing his salvation, then REPENTING and getting it back? Which would go against Hebrews 6:4-6?
For those who just want TL;DR here it is: Why do you believe that you can get your salvation BACK after you lost it, in light of verses that you use to prove salvation can be lost, which say its IMPOSSIBLE to renew them again to repentance (hebr 6:4-6) and no sacrifice remains and they have trampled the blood of Jesus (hebr 10:26ff)?
Now that we got that out of the way, lets dive into it:
When i attend, I attend a pentecostal service. And as many of you probably know, I disagree with some of the stuff they teach, but I will not bring this up because I dont want to cause strife and division, because im not a pastor, im just a regular guy.
However, I have often heard people who say you can lose your salvation quote Hebrews 6:4-6 and Hebrews 10:26 as a proof text.
Now lets assume for argument's sake that those verses mean exactly the way those who believe in conditional security believe they mean: WHY do so many pentecostals and others who believe you can lose your salvation ALSO believe you can GET IT BACK?
Because Hebrews 6:4-6 specifically says its IMPOSSIBLE to renew them again to repentance? So why all this talk for example about David losing his salvation, then REPENTING and getting it back? Which would go against Hebrews 6:4-6?
For those who just want TL;DR here it is: Why do you believe that you can get your salvation BACK after you lost it, in light of verses that you use to prove salvation can be lost, which say its IMPOSSIBLE to renew them again to repentance (hebr 6:4-6) and no sacrifice remains and they have trampled the blood of Jesus (hebr 10:26ff)?
Acts 17:11 1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
11 [a]These were also more [b]noble men than they which were at Thessalonica, which received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
2 Tim 2:15 1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
15 [a]Study to show thyself approved unto God a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, dividing the word of truth [b]aright.
I've discovered the once saved always saved (OSAS) doctrine is both true and false. All the verses that are stated as support for a person losing their salvation are true. So are the verses used by the OSAS crowd. It would take a book to explain how to harmonize all the verses for and against OSAS. So, Ill leave you with a question, when does OSAS undeniably become true? Is it when you became saved? Or, is it when you became saved and began working out your salvation thru perseverance and endurance by faith and obedience and stayed in the race until you meet Jesus face to face? At what point OSAS undeniably become true? At what point does the statement that "no man can pluck you out of My hand" become undeniably true?
Cast away your pastor's, denomination's and commentaries interpretation and listen the one and only true teacher of God's Word. He only has one sided coins. If you do this, the truth will set you free and you will be a Berean rethinking everything that today's lukewarm church has ever taught.
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