There is only ONE thing that can separate you from God:
YOU.
OSAS is a manmade myth and a falsehood of BIBLICAL proportions:
Romans 11:22
“See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity toward those who fell, but God's kindness to you, provided you remain in his kindness; otherwise you to will be cut off.”
Paul is warning the faithful to REMAIN in God’s favor or they will lose their salvation. How can they lose what they never had?
Hebrews 10:26-27
“If we sin deliberately after receiving knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains sacrifice for sins but a fearful prospect of judgment and a flaming fire that is going to consume the adversaries.”
This is a clear warning that falling away from God will result in the loss of our salvation.
2 Peter 2:20-22
For if they, having escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of (our) Lord and savior Jesus Christ, again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition is worse than their first.
For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them.
Here, Peter illustrates that those who had a full, experiential knowledge (epignosei) of Christ can fall back into darkness and lose their salvation by their own doing.
1 Cor. 9:27
"I pummel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified."
Paul is saying that he wrestles with his own fleshly desires so that he might not fall back into sin.
Matthew 10:22
All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Self-explanatory.
2 Peter 3:17
Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position.
Peter is warning the faithful not to fall back into sin and lawlessness.
Rev. 3:5
He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.
God cannot blot out a name that was never there in the first place. He is talking about those already saved and how they can LOSE their salvation.
Rev. 22:19
And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
How can God take away somebody’s share of heaven if they never had it to begin with? He is talking about those already saved and how they can LOSE their salvation.
tell me why would I after seeing God's love ever walk away or anyone that really sees this? Or why would one that sees this amazing gift of life ever walk away.
God promised me that God will never walk away from me, never forsake me. And no weapon formed against me shall ever prosper, and no one, Noone includes me that believes can ever snatch me out of his hand
I was drowning in a river and a boat came along full of religous Zealots and they threw to me while I was drowning a book on how to swim, was I saved?
Then another boat came along and one of the people jumped in the water and tried to show me by their example how to swim, was I saved?
Then another on through in a vest that Icould grab onto and get over to the boat and be put on the boat, amI now saved, sure looks that way doesn't it.
Then after getting on the boat I cuss and ask for a ciggarrette, they throw me back overboard, not yet saved am I?
Then another boat comes along and picks me up out of the water takes me to share inspite of me cussinig and wanting a smoke delivers me safely to shore, now I am saved and in appreciation. This is what is truth what Christ did for all just not all believe this and are and have added to this fact by a somesort of works program bringing stress back into a miraculous Salvation that makes one work for it and if one does not go by the others terms, sect, denomination then that one is thrown back inthe water to drown.
Is this right? God is Love and by his Love is what teaches me and all men to say no to unrighteousness
Obedience is a result of Faith and by and through Faith Romans 1:17
[h=3]Romans 1:17[/h]King James Version (KJV)
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17 [/SUP]For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith
[h=3]Titus 2:1-15[/h]King James Version (KJV)
2 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
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2 [/SUP]That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
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3 [/SUP]The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
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4 [/SUP]That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
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5 [/SUP]To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
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6 [/SUP]Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
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7 [/SUP]In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
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8 [/SUP]Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
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9 [/SUP]Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;
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10 [/SUP]Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.
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11 [/SUP]For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
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12 [/SUP]Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
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13 [/SUP]Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
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14 [/SUP]Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
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15 [/SUP]These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.
