Jesus said, "and this is aeonous life, that they know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you sent." The idea of eternal/everlasting security is contradictory to the nature of aeonous life Jesus explained here. If aeonous life is being in a relationship with God through Jesus, then someone who has forgotten or forsaken God after coming to know Them through knowing Jesus does not have eternal life. And someone who forgot or forsook God who rekindles that relationship begins to have aeonous life again.
It is a terrible mistake to look for some bible-based proposition that we can lean on to insure us against the consequences of breaking fellowship with God and Jesus. The whole point of the Christian faith is to get into and abide in a relationship with God and Jesus. It is not supposed to provide us with a set of propositions that by holding to those while we live separately from God, we can escape the painful consequences of separation from God after we die.
We should be encouraging people to nurture their intimacy with God now, not finding arguments to make not doing so inconsequential in the hereafter.
It is a terrible mistake to look for some bible-based proposition that we can lean on to insure us against the consequences of breaking fellowship with God and Jesus. The whole point of the Christian faith is to get into and abide in a relationship with God and Jesus. It is not supposed to provide us with a set of propositions that by holding to those while we live separately from God, we can escape the painful consequences of separation from God after we die.
We should be encouraging people to nurture their intimacy with God now, not finding arguments to make not doing so inconsequential in the hereafter.
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