x_m_m_x_ wrote:Aineo,
Hello. I'm certainly not trying to sound smart or anything, but I think you need to study your bible. Any professing christian who believes you can be saved and then be unsaved, lost and then found and then lost again, obviously is basing their salvation on something he or she is doing.
This is all I read of your post since you are assuming a lot and if anyone needs to study your Bible it is you. I do not believe or teach that one can be saved, fall away or become apostate and then be saved again. You get one "bite at the apple" as per Hebrews:
Hebrews 6:4-6
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. KJV
Jesus and Paul taught:
Matthew 24:10-11
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. KJV
2 Thessalonians 2:3
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
KJV
1 Timothy 4:1
4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; KJV
The word translated "offended" in Matthew also means "apostasy". The Greek word translated "falling away" in 2 Thessalonians is "apostasia". OSAS contradicts what is taught in Scripture and is a doctrine first proposed by Calvin who was instrumental in translating the Geneva Bible, a translation you trash along with all other translations except the KJ by denigrating the translators.
OSAS also ignores:
Revelation 3:5
5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. KJV
What OSAS totally ignores are all the promises that contain one little word and that word is
"if".
The word of God does not contradict itself, however doctrines of men contradict God's truth. and OSAS contradicts what is taught in Scripture when you take the whole word of God into account.