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You know people just amaze me and not in such a good way… it amazes me how some Christians are anti-Law (Torah) and tell you how Yeshua freed them from it but yet they will “Jewdeize” themselves and say if they “sin” (or at least too much)they will loose their salvation.
Many passages of Scripture support the belief that once a person has attained salvation he can never lose it. There are also many scriptures that appear to support the position that once a person has attained salvation he can lose it.
Two issues are at stake:
1. Either the Scripture contradicts itself, or it does not. If it does, then we cannot trust anything that it says.
2. Either a believer can lose his salvation, or he cannot. If he can, then he would be wise to dedicate his life to avoid losing it, whether by vigilant avoidance of any sin that may jeopardize it, or by diligent and consistent performance of righteous acts to secure it, or both. Such a life can be fraught with concern as to whether he will end up in the arms of God or in the flames of Hell. On the other hand, if a believer cannot lose his salvation, he can rest securely in the assurance and the certainty of a blessed and wonderful eternity in the presence of God. His service toward God will not be driven by the need to avoid the flames of Hell, but for the joy that is set before Him (Hebrews 12:2); nor when he sins will he fall into dread of ****ation.
Many passages of Scripture support the belief that once a person has attained salvation he can never lose it. There are also many scriptures that appear to support the position that once a person has attained salvation he can lose it.
Two issues are at stake:
1. Either the Scripture contradicts itself, or it does not. If it does, then we cannot trust anything that it says.
2. Either a believer can lose his salvation, or he cannot. If he can, then he would be wise to dedicate his life to avoid losing it, whether by vigilant avoidance of any sin that may jeopardize it, or by diligent and consistent performance of righteous acts to secure it, or both. Such a life can be fraught with concern as to whether he will end up in the arms of God or in the flames of Hell. On the other hand, if a believer cannot lose his salvation, he can rest securely in the assurance and the certainty of a blessed and wonderful eternity in the presence of God. His service toward God will not be driven by the need to avoid the flames of Hell, but for the joy that is set before Him (Hebrews 12:2); nor when he sins will he fall into dread of ****ation.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 1 John 3:9
Another way we can rest secure in the arms of the Lord is just to simply not sin. Have I sinned since I became a Christian. Yes I have but beacuse I am saved the Lord conviced me and showed me how wrong it was and I repented. I did not continue living in it. That would be an example of an apostacy.