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Blain

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What is childish is the failure to recognize the difference between "Christian Origination" and "Christian Obligation".

It's you OSAS folks that misdirect the debate from obligation to origination every single time, and it's so predictable. EVERYONE knows that a sinner becomes a Christian by grace through faith, not works, gift of God, etc. The debate is "can that Christian walk away from God and be lost?" and when our side presents our case which involves obedience to God's commandments as evidence for if the saint is really a saint or not, more often than not they do as YOU did: shift the debate from obligation to origination.

If OSAS is Biblical, how is it that the "many" whose "agape" grows cold and dead, leaving them unable to endure to the end, and lost....are saints? Posthuman ridiculously suggests that the wicked, such as demon worshipers, drunkards, dope fiends, mass murderers, etc., can partake of "agape" so they aren't saints, but I've shown only the saints can demonstrate "agape" which is keeping the commandments, because the carnal mind can't do that. What say you?
If you wish we can discuss all of that another time but for now I just want an answer to my question if you cannot answer it just say so and I will leave it that but the more you misdirect the more you just prove my point.
 
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And yes
And yet how easily you could be talking about yourself.... You cannot say this about others unless you take into consideration about yourself as well otherwise how will you know if perhpas in fact you were the one you were talking about?
Let's be clear: I used to believe in OSAS, Sunday was the "Lord's Day", Eternal Torment was for the wicked, dead folks were dead but not surely dead, and a host of other false doctrines, but I had the cajones to question it all because I wasn't afraid of where the answers might lead.

I got fired from a $120,000/year job for refusing to break the Sabbath Jesus asks those who love Him to keep. The lions didn't eat Daniel cause he had too much backbone. No lilly-coward can be a Christian, especially not OSAS "more than conquerors" who gets their butt handed to them every time the devil shows up with his temptations.
 
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You do not fulfil these two and since the law and the prophets hang on them you fail. I'm glad at least you did not foolishly try to claim that you do fulfil them.
If you think you're going to enter heaven breaking them, you're in for a rude 1,000 year long nap awakening.
 
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If you wish we can discuss all of that another time but for now I just want an answer to my question if you cannot answer it just say so and I will leave it that but the more you misdirect the more you just prove my point.
Look, I admit when I saw "we're not saved by keeping the commandments blah blah" I stopped reading - can you blame me? What was the question, please?
 
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Jesus brought grace when he came in the flesh, but example of grace was in the days of Noah. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. (Genesis 6:8), And Noah and his family was saved. Now Paul said in (Rom. 3:23-25) (v.23) For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God. (v.24) Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (v.25) Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. So the bible tells you to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." (Acts 2 :36-38). And by doing so you come up under his precious blood and then you are saved from your sins that are past, not present or future sins but for sins that are past. We were all locked under death by Adam’s sin, even the second death. But when Jesus became (he was God in the beginning) man and died for the sins of the world, he gave us access back to the tree of life (himself) which Adam had caused us to lose. That’s what grace is, our free gift our access back to the tree of life but that’s another lesson for another time.

So by coming under the blood of Jesus you are saved from your past sins. And if you are saved now, it is on a day to day basis. Because for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (Romans 23:3), and if you continue to live you will sin again. It is the willful sinning that you need to put in check. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. (Hebrew 10: 26, 27)
No OSAS would be pleased with a husband or wife claiming "once married, always married" as a basis for excusing infidelity....but the God of the Universe, with Whom they think they can bargain when the only thing they can bring to the bargaining table is a lost soul, had better honor that OSAS License to Sin.
 
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yeh but you start out from a platform of deceit and hypocrisy for you make keeping the law as necessary unto salvation but you yourself do not, neither are you fully surrendered to God, your surrender is outward and not inward. Christ does not dwell in you.
Saved by grace, bro. And the evidence that we're saved is that we keep the commandments, every one Jesus spoke at Sinai: 1 John 2:3-4 KJV Psalms 78:1-2 KJV

The Bible says the people would refuse to hear the truth, but would only desire "smooth sayings". The undisputed, heavyweight world champion of all smooth sayings is OSAS. What could possibly be any smoother a saying than to tell people that they can cling to their Jesus and their sin and still go to heaven?
 
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but you break them and you hang your salvation upon it ... in contradiction to God's new covenant.
What a childish thing to say. What evidence do you have?

I think you're possibly projecting.
 

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Let's be clear: I used to believe in OSAS, Sunday was the "Lord's Day", Eternal Torment was for the wicked, dead folks were dead but not surely dead, and a host of other false doctrines, but I had the cajones to question it all because I wasn't afraid of where the answers might lead.

I got fired from a $120,000/year job for refusing to break the Sabbath Jesus asks those who love Him to keep. The lions didn't eat Daniel cause he had too much backbone. No lilly-coward can be a Christian, especially not OSAS "more than conquerors" who gets their butt handed to them every time the devil shows up with his temptations.
I'm sorry you had to go through all of that I have had to go through a lot of changes in my view of doctrines not all were pretty, interestingly enough as far as the lords day if we are going to be specific it is neither saturday nor sunday by our standards it is appointed by the jewish calander which means at sundown the next day officially begin for them so by our standards it would stilll be saturday but to them it would be sunday.
 

Blain

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Look, I admit when I saw "we're not saved by keeping the commandments blah blah" I stopped reading - can you blame me? What was the question, please?
The question was in my post #197
As far as whether osas is true or not whether one can lose their salvation or not honestly to me it isn't hard to understand we were purchased by God with his sons death we are not our own our salvation was not by our own doing we are slaves to Christs the deed of our souls are not in our hands but in his.

Unless of course you think different, otherwise can a one who is purchased make a claim for themselves? can a slave be their own master? do you think we can just snatch the deed from God's hands? So tell me did he purchase us with his sons death or not? are we slaves to Christ like Paul or not? does he own the deed to our souls or not? are we our own or not and was our salvation our own doing or not? and if you agree to even one of these things then by all means explain how one can somehow lose what isn't theirs to lose.

Now as to when I spoke I spoke about works not saving us I have not been feeling well today and may not remember when I posted it can show me where I posted it?
 
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but you break them and you hang your salvation upon it ... in contradiction to God's new covenant.
New Covenant: "I will write My laws in their minds and on their hearts".

"..written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. Not on tables of stone, but on the fleshly tables of the heart".

See? The OC had the law written on stone, the NC has it written on our heart. OSAS says the only thing written in the NC is what's written on that OSAS License to Sin.
 
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I'm sorry you had to go through all of that I have had to go through a lot of changes in my view of doctrines not all were pretty, interestingly enough as far as the lords day if we are going to be specific it is neither saturday nor sunday by our standards it is appointed by the jewish calander which means at sundown the next day officially begin for them so by our standards it would stilll be saturday but to them it would be sunday.
Bro, Isaiah says the Sabbath is "...MY HOLY DAY". Christians kept the Sabbath everywhere well into the first A.D. millennium, according to Socrates Scholasticus. I been studying the issue for years, friend, so if you think you got a text or historical fact to the contrary, I'd love to hear it ;)
 
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The question was in my post #197
As far as whether osas is true or not whether one can lose their salvation or not honestly to me it isn't hard to understand we were purchased by God with his sons death we are not our own our salvation was not by our own doing we are slaves to Christs the deed of our souls are not in our hands but in his.

Unless of course you think different, otherwise can a one who is purchased make a claim for themselves? can a slave be their own master? do you think we can just snatch the deed from God's hands? So tell me did he purchase us with his sons death or not? are we slaves to Christ like Paul or not? does he own the deed to our souls or not? are we our own or not and was our salvation our own doing or not? and if you agree to even one of these things then by all means explain how one can somehow lose what isn't theirs to lose.

Now as to when I spoke I spoke about works not saving us I have not been feeling well today and may not remember when I posted it can show me where I posted it?
OK, I'll check it out.
 

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Look, I admit when I saw "we're not saved by keeping the commandments blah blah" I stopped reading - can you blame me? What was the question, please?
I do remember I had typed something but deleted it so perhaps that is what you mean but I don't think it was about works not saving it had something to do with works as that was what we were discussing at the time but why would I prove your point after you specifically stated that is the first thing osas people do?

Then again who knows i have been loopy all day
 
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I do remember I had typed something but deleted it so perhaps that is what you mean but I don't think it was about works not saving it had something to do with works as that was what we were discussing at the time but why would I prove your point after you specifically stated that is the first thing osas people do?

Then again who knows i have been loopy all day
If you find it, please let me know. As for OSAS, I would like your opinion on the following:

Matthew 24:12 KJV says the "agape" of the "many" shall grow cold. They are contrasted with those in verse 13 who "endure to the end" and are "saved", which means these "many" will be lost. They are also in a worse spiritual condition than are the merely lukewarm Laodiceans who will be rejected and spat out of Jesus' mouth.

These "many" can be none other than the SAINTS - because "agape" is demonstrated by keeping the commandments (1 John 5:3 KJV) but the wicked can't keep God's commandments even if they wanted to (Romans 8:7 KJV).

(I'm still waiting for someone to deconstruct this line of reasoning and prove it wrong, because if not OSAS dies a horribly painful death right here. What say you?)
 

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Great ... I would only say we have been set free to use the liberty we have been given to serve God but not the flesh, we may well use the liberty to serve the flesh but it will bring consequences. We are agreed :)
yes indeed and those consequences are made clear by the apostle Paul and others

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like:

of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5:19-21‬ ‭KJV‬‬

we need only to trust the word and that will fix our thinking when it’s opposed and bring us into the spirit and life

“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”
‭‭John‬ ‭6:63‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5:16‬ ‭KJV‬‬

“But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5:3-7‬ ‭

constant in scripture
 

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New Covenant: "I will write My laws in their minds and on their hearts".

"..written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. Not on tables of stone, but on the fleshly tables of the heart".

See? The OC had the law written on stone, the NC has it written on our heart. OSAS says the only thing written in the NC is what's written on that OSAS License to Sin.
But you insist upon going back to the ones written in ink and upon tables of stone. It is was I said your obedience is outward not inward. You never speak of the indwelling Christ or the new birth.