NO! You must continually be faithful to the end. If you can't prove you're a true and faithful servant of God and keep His Commandments and you drift off into lawlessness and you have a rebellious attitude like Lucifer did. That's why God cast him and a third of his angels down to earth in the first place! God doesn't want rebillion or lawlessness in his Kingdom. If your not serious enough to repent of your sins and you keep on sinning, WHAT makes you think God will want YOU to have a part in His Kingdom?....HE DON'T!!..... WHY WOULD HE?!..You haven't truly committed your life to Him! There are no free rides! You must be "born of the Holy Spirit" to even THINK about entering God's Kingdom in the first place. You must be faithful to the end of the road because that's where your salvation's at. At the END of the road. "faith without works is dead" . You must prove yourself out and not give up! Lawlessness is not being a TRUE Christian. You must show your Father that you love Him and that you want to do for Him by obeying His Laws. You must have a personal relationship with your Father in heaven. There is no other way! Think about it!! God want's committment. God want's enduring faith. God only wants the OVERCOMERS! God only want's those who love HIm as he loves them and show Him they do. Not the slackers who don't care thinking that they got salvation cause they accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior into their life and that's it, their done, and they go on about their way doing what they always did before........It don't work that way!! That's a FALSE CONVERSION! you probably were never "born of the Holy Spirit" because if you were you would have totally changed your life around and fully repented of your sins and you would honor your Father and keep His commandments and live for Him and not yourself. You must lose your life to gain eternal life. There is no other way! Your new body waits for you at the end of the road. You are not "born again" until you are changed (born again or reborn) into your new spririt being body that awaits you when Jesus returns at the end!! Not the beginning!! WAKE UP!! You CAN lose your salvation!! It doesn't get easier when you become a TRUE Christian...It gets harder!..........The only sin that is unforgivable is (blaspheming of the Holy Spirit) total rejection of God and everything you have learned and done in His name. If......and only If.....you were a TRUE Christian in the first place having being "born of the Holy Spirit" and had a true and personal relationship with your Father in heaven that you would have if you had the God's Spirit in you. If you turn your back on God, he will harden your heart and leave you to your reprobate mind with never a chance to return....You will surley perish!!.....That is the only unforgivable sin..........
2007-02-11 15:17:19
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answered by SLEDGE 3
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Once saved always saved is nothing but a lie.
God can forgive a murderer, absolutely - but the murder needs to respond to God's grace and repent of his/her crime. God can forgive anything, but sinners need to repent. Otherwise there's hell to pay (literally).
This applies to everyone - Christians too. The notion that someone can "get saved" and then murder, never repent, and still go to Heaven is a perversion of Christianity.
2007-02-11 14:19:44
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answered by Sass B 4
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Actually that teaching is not from the Bible, it is unscriptural, because the Biblesays that salvation is not automatic or instantaneus(Philipians2;12 ;3:12-14 ; Matthew10:22)
Partakers of the jo;ly spirit can fall and therefore loose their salvation(Hebrews6:4,6 ; 1Corinthians9:27) ; so once saved always saved is not a teaching that the Bible teaches, but it is really a teaching that the devil inspired to get people a false sense of security, to think that they cann do anything once they are saved and think they will be pleasing God though they are not(Hebrews10:26-29 ; Revelation20:7-15)There are even some things that repentance is impossible from.
2007-02-11 14:42:56
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answered by I speak Truth 6
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God will forgive someone even of Murder. Don't forget, both Moses and David committed murder, yet they are great heroes in the Bible.
It is my firm belief that the only sin God will not forgive is the rejection of His Everlasting Love through the Blood Sacrifice of His Son, Jesus.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
2007-02-11 14:19:06
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answered by ? 7
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I won't answer for God, you'll have to ask Him that yourself, but I can tell you what's written:
If you are saved, you are saved. period. If a person feels they need to go get saved again, what they are saying is that Christ wasn't able to do it good enough the first time, you need to come back and have it re-done. If you sin, you don't get re-saved, what you do is repent.
BUT ABOUT THE MURDER....
The Book says if a person commits a murder, meaning "lies in wait to do fatal harm", or what we call pre-mediated murder, that person is to be executed, and sent to the Father, where the person will be judged at whatever Gods appointed time for it is, and in the presence of the victim(s), where their forgiveness will be required. Thats whats said in the manuscripts; Its good old-fashioned common sense, if you ask me.
2007-02-11 14:22:20
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answered by Anonymous
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No.....you can't be a Christian and act like a fool and ask for forgiveness and do it all over again. Ask for forgiveness and change. We all make mistakes and fall short but we still need to try to be what God wants us to be. That is being a true Christian. God will forgive a murderer!
2007-02-11 14:20:54
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answered by Robin 1
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No, there is a Way to Lose your Salvation.
It is Called the Unpardonable Sin.
Very Hard to Commit.
Few do it.
The Regular Ole' sins like Lying, Stealing, Being Gay, Drunkeness, Murder so on, will not Keep you otta Heaven, BUT they will Bring Curses down on you, and Some will Cut your Physical Life Short on this Earth.
2007-02-11 14:19:56
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answered by maguyver727 7
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no, not once saved always saved because you can choose to turn away from God after you were already saved. and yes God will forgive murderers if they ask him to forgive them and are truly sorry for what they have done.
2007-02-11 14:19:07
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answered by Anonymous
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James 2:10 says - For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
So, irregardless of how you sin, if you sin in a small way or even in a big way, it is all the same - sin. The verse also goes on to talk about how we shouldn't judge others sin as better or worse than our own. He despises that as well. That is what grace is all about - no matter how badly you mess, you are never far removed from God. He forgives all of your sins and gives you unlimited chances.
2007-02-11 14:30:25
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answered by TwinkaTee 6
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Yes. God views us all as his children. Just because we find something like murder horrifying and difficult to deal with and forgive people for does not mean that God is unable to find that kind of forgiveness. God finds all sin abominable, regardless of the sin, and yet is able to forgive all if we ask him to.
2007-02-11 14:19:12
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answered by blue_girl 5
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