Not By Works

It's called searing the conscience. Happens just as you say - over time spent resisting and resisting the voice of God so that the spiritual callus on the ears becomes so great that His voice is no longer heard...aka "the Unpardonable Sin" and "Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost". Don't know why this is so foreign a concept to anyone reading the Bible with their eyes open.

You seem to paint all OSAS believers with a broad brush based on one or two bad examples.

Such people may live the rest of their lives living like the devil, yet say to themselves in the back of their minds, "I'm saved and will always be saved simply because I recited a prayer at church years ago." That is insanity!

I've heard numerous works-salvationists...

The word "sealed" means “to stamp for security or preservation......... "sealed with the Holy Spirit OF PROMISE" (Ephesians 1:13).

Because God is the One doing the preserving and securing through the Holy Spirit based upon the work of the Son, the seal cannot be broken.

If anyone believes he can lose his salvation, then he is not trusting completely in the perfect, finished work of Christ.

And the parable of the Unmerciful Servant does not at all refute OSAS.. you have to read to that into the parable as NOSAS people always do.

High time you stick to biblical narrative that works do not save and saved is saved not quasi saved.

You have no assurance of eternal life. There may be a point in the future when you stop believing. 🤭

Friend, how can you make such a statement? Only God knows the heart. Judge a man's works as either right or wrong, but leave the judging of motives to God, lest we find ourselves taking the place of Jesus. There's a Greek word for taking the place of Jesus - "anti-Christos".

You made my work here EASIER, By spewing that open statement is a TOTAL LIE. You are not unusual, you are the NORM. I have found almost NOBODY that has a Vendetta AGAINST OSAS, who has as actually believed a LIE about OSAS, and NOT the Truth what we actually TEACH and BELIEVE.

WE BELIEVE THERE IS NOT A SINGLE WORK, that YOU can earn Salvation or even maintain SALVATION. Working to earn or maintain Salvation is a TOTAL WAIST of TIME! WHY? Because IT IS A FREE GIFT, for those HE WROTE in the BOOK OF LIFE before the earth was formed. We (OSAS) actually BELIEVE nothing CAN BE A DONE TO IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES TO MAKE SALVATION, because when you do that, the LORD SEES IT AS FILTHY RAGS, totally worthless as a motive to GET SAVED.

OBEDIENCE IS NOT PART OF SALVATION, HOWEVER, OBEDIENCE IS PART OF OUR AGAPE LOVE, WHICH HE POURED INTO OUR HEARTS also the Human Spirit:

Romans 5:1-10 (NRSV)
1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God.
3 And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,
4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
5 and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.
6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person someone might actually dare to die.
8 But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.
9 Much more surely then, now that we have been justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God.
10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life.


THEIR IS YOUR ASSURANCE THAT OSAS IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH! VERSE TEN SAYS IT IN PLAIN ENGLISH.

Here what OSAS CHURCHES actually TEACH! COMPARE THAT TO THE LIE THE DEVIL PLANTED IN YOUR BRAIN. I am sorry for your Parents, who only thought they knew what OSAS taught. However IF they ever had dug into the Scriptures, and researched it in the Church's Constitution and Doctrinal Statement of FAITH, HERE IS WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE FOUND OUT ABOUT GOD GIVEN LOVE:

John 14:15 (NRSV)
15 "If you {AGAPE = Born Again} love me, you will keep {no add's, if's, or but's, as it is SOLIDLY a lifestyle change in your human
spirit, purely motivated out of AGAPE LOVE in your human spirit. Never does it imply PERFECTION, but an ongoing striving to keep,
MOTIVATED BY AGAPE LOVE.} my commandments.

John 14:24 (NRSV)
24 Whoever does not {AGAPE} love me does not keep my words; . . .{That KEEP's is in the verb tense, that does not imply PERFECTION, but rather a lifestyle of striving to keep HIS Word, motivated by AGAPE LOVE. If it is only a little while of Striving, and you go back to your old ways, you NEVER HAD WHAT IT IS TALKING ABOUT IN THE FIRST PLACE, born again. NO IT IS NOT PART OF SALVATION, it is a changed lifestyle, motivated by AGAPE LOVE towards GOD.}


Then you again made another FALSE STATEMENT. YOU SAID: No backslider who dies in his backsliden state is going to heaven.

Let's Put that Statement to the TEST OF SCRIPTURE. I assume you are talking about a Born Again Christian, not a disciple WHO HAD NEVER HAS BEEN BORN AGAIN? According to SCRIPTURE, how many sins did HE pay for on the CROSS, ROM 5:10, (above). OH MY ALL OF THEM. And before you say, I am teaching you can sin all you want, NO I AM NOT. IF YOU HAVE BEEN BORN AGAIN, YOU WILL RETURN LIKE THE PRODIGAL SON, the HOLY SPIRIT WILL CONVICT YOU IN YOUR HEART UNTIL YOU DO SO. IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN BORN AGAIN YOU WILL NOT RETURN, PERIOD, and no coviction in your heart which is also human spirit, because it is still DEAD.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 (NKJV)
20 For there is not a just man on earth who does good And does not sin.

Do you want to see if you are sinless? That is an EASY ONE.

James 2:10 (NIV)
10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.

Just in case you still think you are SINLESS, I will focus on a sin that you think is TRIVIAL.

1 Peter 2:13-17 (NKJV)
13 Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man
for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme,
14 or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for
the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good.
15 For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put
to silence the ignorance of foolish men--
16 as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as
bondservants of God.
17 Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.
{That would be President Donald Trump, if you are an American.}

Now I will give you one EXAMPLE that will prove you are a SINNER, and YOU ARE GUILTY OF BREAKING ALL OF GOD'S LAWS.

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GOD INSPIRED ALL OF SCRIPTURE, Both 1 Pet. 2:13-15 and James 2:10, AND YOU ARE GUILTY OF BREAKING ALL OF GOD'S LAWS.
YOU ARE A SINNER LIKE THE REST OF US. Sounds like you NEED A SAVIOR WHO BELIEVES HE CAN SAVE US, OSAS.

So, you believe that saint who decides that loving thy neighbor is no longer fun and instead embarks on a life of sex, drugs, and rock and roll is still gonna be "in that number when the saints go marchin in"?

I can make that statement based upon his theology. If he thinks one can lose their salvation, then he has no peace. I wasn’t judging his salvation but his theology.

What makes a saint? Are you relying on your righteousness or the righteousness of Jesus Christ? Are you judging?😉

Hebrews 6:4-6 is not about a seared conscience.

The "rest of the story" is after one becomes a child of God, they will either grow and produce fruit or they will remain a child with only "milk to drink.".

The book is addressed to the Jews in the last days...taking the mark of the beast. This is not doctrine for the body of Christ. If one takes the mark, there is no more sacrifice for sin. He is already condemned to hell.

Well, let's see how that idea of peace stacks up to the Bible:
"Great peace have they which love Thy law and nothing shall offend."

Can OSAS really claim to love God's Law when their arguments are an endless round of attempts to justify breaking it?

"There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked."

All Scripture is profitable for the "man of God", not just a select few, right?

Most of Scripture is written to the Jews. Paul’s letters are to the body of Christ.

It absolutely is. It is at the point of a seared conscience that it becomes impossible to renew a person again to repentance. Until then, the Father's door of mercy which swings on the hinges of grace is still open and awaiting the return of the prodigal son.

The saved have works of every flavor, some good, and some bad? I thought Jesus said a good tree can't bring forth bad fruit, right or wrong?