It means....you can't earn salvation. There's more but that's a start.How do you define "Faith Alone"?
Does faith alone mean "lawlessness" where we completely disregard the commandments?
Can you expound on this?It means....you can't earn salvation. There's more but that's a start.
Can you expound on this?
If a person wilfully rejects a known commandment, are they still "saved", and if so...how?
Perfect! Thank you!If a circle has corners, is it still a circle, and if so, how?
Saved Christians don't "willfully reject a known commandment".
Salvation starts off by being regenerated by God, with God taking out our old heart of stone, and replacing it with a God-loving heart of flesh. Salvation is not simply "obeying commandments", nor is it nothing but a "decision" someone makes. It is God quickening us to a new life in Christ.
Perfect! Thank you!
What role would baptism play in terms of salvation?
How do you define "Faith Alone"?
Does faith alone mean "lawlessness" where we completely disregard the commandments?
Eph. 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. | salvation by faith (alone) |
And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. | not by anything we do not by works |
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. | works are the result of salvation. works come after salvation, as fruits. |
Yes.Can you expound on this?
If a person wilfully rejects a known commandment, are they still "saved", and if so...how?
So, once saved always saved?Yes.
You can't lose your salvation.
So, once saved always saved?
If I become a serial killer after accepting Jesus do I still get salvation,
or is it more likely that I was never "saved" to begin with?
Thank you...again!No.
"Perseverance of the saints".
That's about as likely as an apple tree suddenly growing lemons, and you asking, "is it still an apple tree?"
If it's a true apple tree, it will NEVER grow lemons.
If it grows lemons, it NEVER was an apple tree.
This brings us back to James 2, doesn't it?
If someone CLAIMS to have faith (James 2:14), but his works are evil ("serial killer"), and not good? It means his claim to faith was never valid in the first place.
It depends which covenant one is operating under. Under the first testament one must continue to rely upon Christ's sacrifice to cover their sins. Under the second covenant, that option no longer exists (Hebrews 9:15 "15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance."So, once saved always saved?
If I become a serial killer after accepting Jesus do I still get salvation, or is it more likely that I was never "saved" to begin with?
Yes, they are still saved. Why would they not be saved? You, you, you wilfully reject a known commandment everyday. Everyday!!!Can you expound on this?
If a person wilfully rejects a known commandment, are they still "saved", and if so...how?
If you become a serial killer you probably were not saved to begin with.So, once saved always saved?
If I become a serial killer after accepting Jesus do I still get salvation, or is it more likely that I was never "saved" to begin with?
Salvation is by belief and trust in the true God, and what God already did and promises still to do on our behalf.
Faith is believing and trusting.
"I (God) am the Lord,
And besides Me there is no savior." Isaiah 43
If one is truly in Jesus, their salvation is assured.
Your performance is not what "gets you to Heaven", or even what keeps you out of it.
The ONE GOD ( who said " US & OUR " in Gen 1:26 ) is indeed a TRINITY composed of these 3 Divine Persons ( Father, Son, & Holy Spirit - Matt.28:19 )! You are one Human composed of a Body, Soul, & Spirit as per 1 Thess.5:23! Each part of one human can be called human ( Human Body, Human Soul, & Human Spirit ) with out actually being 3 Humans! Thus indeed the scriptures in John 1:1, Acts 5:3-4 , & Heb.1:8 calls each of those 3 Divine Persons God ( God the Father, God the Son, & God the Holy Spirit ) without actually having 3 GOD's ! Case closed!Believing what?
Believe Jesus is the Messiah promised to Israel, the savior promised to mankind from the beginning Genesis 3Believing what?
MMM Was Paul talking to an unsaved church...If Paul had to tell the church these things it means they were doing them.If a circle has corners, is it still a circle, and if so, how?
Saved Christians don't "willfully reject a known commandment".
Salvation starts off by being regenerated by God, with God taking out our old heart of stone, and replacing it with a God-loving heart of flesh. Salvation is not simply "obeying commandments", nor is it nothing but a "decision" someone makes. It is God quickening us to a new life in Christ.
lol...Yes.
You can't lose your salvation.