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Originally Posted by corvet786c
No one responded in a previous thread so here is a new one. I copied this from someone's blog... please explain how you can have eternal security, is that the phrase? These verses scare me! I know its about what He did on the cross and Grace, but what do these verses mean?
Let's take a look at Revelation 3:5
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.
What happens if someone doesn't overcome? What will happen to his name in the book of life? Apparently, it will be blotted out. So, if a name that was in the book of life can be blotted out … what does that tell you?
Now see Hebrews 10:38,
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
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If we could never depart from the faith, err, or turn away, why would we be warned to "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling"? "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?"
Just think. The angels were in Heaven and they didn't have eternal security! They sinned. God cannot allow sin in Heaven. Those who sin are called sinners. God will not allow sinners into Heaven." |
While I personally think the idea of "once saved, always saved" ignores a number of important points, as you have pointed out; I also feel that to ignore the concept of the Preservation of the Saints as you appear to also have done is equally deficient.
For example,
Hebrews 10:26... The manner in which you seem to be wanting to apply this passage smacks of "Christian Perfectionism"
through works, a doctrine that I know MichaeltheDisciple heartily supports but for which we find little support for in the Scriptures.
It is a simple fact; those that "work out their own salvation with fear and trembling" and never "depart from the faith" are SECURE in their salvation in Christ. They were "once saved" and they shall always remain saved!