Can you define “saved" in a way that is true for every instance of sOzO; and “salvation" in a way that is true of every instance of sOtEria in scripture. Special pleading is a logical fallacy.
the moment someone accepts & believes Jesus as savior, salvation moves in & it's permanent. but said person must realize he or she is a sinner saved by the grace of God. study 1st John 5:10- "he that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself, he that believeth not God, has made Him a liar because he believeth not the record that God gave of His Son ", then 1st John 5:13, - "these things have we written unto you that believeth on the name of the Son of God, that you may KNOW YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE & that you may believe on the name of the Son of God". John 3:33 is revelation of the fact that Christians have the Holy Spirit living inside with them for life!
While that is true about the term, Jesus said that blasphemy of the Holy Spirit would not be forgiven.
I too am a great fan of John. For instance: The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 19 Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed. 21 But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God. Thus John says if you have come to the light it is plainly evident by your deeds. If you claim to come to the light but your deeds are exactly equal to those who have no knowledge of Christ, then you have "not come to the light."
Interesting theology. Christians who do evil and hate the good are rejected by God, but if they "claim to have faith" they are blessed and accepted into glory. This is exactly at the dichogamy of the believe "right" and all is forgiven or evil is evil and never acceptable to God who cannot abide evil. Thus the ultimate question. Doses one's behavior have anything to do with one's eternal destination? Can you legitimately claim salvation by mental assent but deny salvation by your continuing commitment to an evil life?
Thus 21st century Christianity is sin all you want but only after you claim to "believe" God's love and sacrifice thus you are "are saved". We have a Holy Get Out Of Hell Card for nodding our head to a 60 second pulpit prayer. There is no need to be converted. No need for life change. No need for taking up your own cross. How convenient.
I can proof text with the best of them. We pick and choose from the corpus of the the New Testament to "justify" or "validate" any dogma that we have concocted. These statements from John and Paul stand in contrast to their other statements. Thus we weave our theological web to always result in zero responsibility/conversion for us but obligate God to accept us into heaven no matter what. Very convenient.
Wow! Sin requires no thinking. That is a defense attorney's greatest gift. "Your Honor. He is not guilty because he did what he did naturally without thinking about it so you must find him "innocent." Thus killing his wife is just "an impulse" and thus not evil.. Your job judge is to determine was the murder thinking "anti-truth" or was he just sinning? If just sinning you must let him go free under the get out of hell card he holds that covers all his sins but not his "evils."
