Loss of salvation???
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Very true. Paul was indeed a mere man, even when he said this:
2 Timothy 2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
Because of the grammatical structure of that statement, some will call it into question in many different ways since it wasn't written in the guttural vernaculars of modern slang and cultural lunacy whereby words can then mean anything the hearer wants to interpret them to mean. Paul spoke this with precision, leaving only the non-thinkers to cast it aside as meaning something other than what it is saying.
So, yes, Paul did not come right out and write the Greek in a manner that would be translated into the cliche' of "Once saved always saved..." No. He was a highly educated man, speaking with a level of precision that his audience could not easily misconstrue...except in these modern times of utter subjectivism. God is no "Indian giver," nor a liar, nor One who plays games with words:
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
So, good message, Blade. When God gives the gift of salvation, He's not One to take it all back because doing so would be a matter of His denying Himself. Some speak much about losing salvation, and yet they have no legitimate explanation as to where that threshold is, no graph to illustrate what they or someone else they are following has actually defined with definitive language that originated from scripture. They have no acid test for loss of salvation apart from what they see with their eyes or hear with their ears or both. They see themselves as adept at shoving Christ aside off His own Throne so that they can sit in it as the judge of others.
The thought doth make me tremble...
MM
2 Timothy 2:13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
Because of the grammatical structure of that statement, some will call it into question in many different ways since it wasn't written in the guttural vernaculars of modern slang and cultural lunacy whereby words can then mean anything the hearer wants to interpret them to mean. Paul spoke this with precision, leaving only the non-thinkers to cast it aside as meaning something other than what it is saying.
So, yes, Paul did not come right out and write the Greek in a manner that would be translated into the cliche' of "Once saved always saved..." No. He was a highly educated man, speaking with a level of precision that his audience could not easily misconstrue...except in these modern times of utter subjectivism. God is no "Indian giver," nor a liar, nor One who plays games with words:
Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
So, good message, Blade. When God gives the gift of salvation, He's not One to take it all back because doing so would be a matter of His denying Himself. Some speak much about losing salvation, and yet they have no legitimate explanation as to where that threshold is, no graph to illustrate what they or someone else they are following has actually defined with definitive language that originated from scripture. They have no acid test for loss of salvation apart from what they see with their eyes or hear with their ears or both. They see themselves as adept at shoving Christ aside off His own Throne so that they can sit in it as the judge of others.
The thought doth make me tremble...
MM