i just feel anyone can say...ok jesus your my savior...then go out and drink or smoke and live in sin but "i accepted jesus so im going to heaven"....back your answer up with scripture...
2007-03-22 08:57:04 · 12 answers · asked by Landon C 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
you wont lose it .. but u can toss it away by choice ... thats my understanding of it .. it is the day of grace and God wont give up on you if theres a chance but if a person rejects God his name will be blotted out of the book of life ..
2007-03-22 09:00:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, if you have trusted in Christ for your salvation, you can not lose that salvation. 1John 5:13; 4:15 :5:1&5
However, this does not mean that a person can continue to sin and say it doesn't matter because Jesus died for my sins.
If you really believe a thing, it will change your life.Faith in Christ is both the act of a single moment- choosing to allow Him place in your life- and a continuing attitude of life.Mt 16:24-26
Faith involves repentance- turning away from that old lifeActs 17:30, 2Cor 7:10
It means keeping a short account with God because we are struggling daily and need His help to remain good Rom Chapter 7
True faith causes life style changes. It deepens one's love for other believers and results in a desire for greater fellowship with God, God's people, the Scriptures, and a distaste for old habits( ie smoking or drinking
)Acts4:32-37;8:14-24, Acts 2:42-47;Gal 4:6
The faith we claim is evidenced by our lives, by our lifestyles, by the things we do. Faith without these works is dead
James 3:14-26
2007-03-23 10:16:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ezekiel 18:4
This idea of man-made's "once saved always saved"
is just another of the multi-million dollars lie.
It worked for Satan with a perfect woman Eve
so why shouldn't it work with the imperfect humans
we have become today???
Matthew 7:13, 14; 24:13
Philippians 2:12
Hebrews 6:4-6; 10:26, 27, 31;
Galatians 4:8-11; 5:19-21;
John 5:28-29; 8:44;
Luke 11:42-54...
Revelation 18:4 21:8
2007-03-22 16:40:43 · answer #3 · answered by Teri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not the way it works.... I will not use Scripture... the Salvation message is kept in the hearts of God's people.... I did not even own a Bible on the day of my Salvation... I had not read anything in it for many years.
I woke up one morning a Christian mocker... and 4 hrs later I was one... No Book, man, priest, pastor, doctrine or dogma of man's invention involved... just God and me.
I can only tell what I know from God's Promise to me at the instant of my Salvation.... All who come to God in The Way He prescribes will receive His free gift of Salvation. Those become part of The Body of The Church of which Jesus The Christ is The Head, Those are the ones of The True Christian Faith. Only those of The Church will enter Heaven... Once God has given His free gift of Salvation it is forever.... Once one knows The Truth there is no turning back... there is no such thing as a "former" Christian...
ALL True Christians sin... All True Christians try their best to live their life accourding to God's Word and will for them... but ALL fail...
You are correct in saying that anyone can "accept" Jesus... but that don't mean they have their Salvation... there are more people who think they are Christian than there are those who Truly are.... Alot of people who think they are going to Heaven will find out too late that they are not... But, sin will have nothing to do with it... Only those who come to God as He prescribes... and that aint easy for most... will make it...
There is nothing in The Bible of The True Christian Faith for the non-believer.... The Bible will not "prove" God to any one.... God proves The Bible... only those open to the leading of God, through The Holy Spirit, will find what God has for them there.... You got to come to God to come to The Bible
I accept YA email if you have questions about the basics of The Christian Faith
2007-03-22 16:16:19 · answer #4 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If we can lose our salvation by giving it away, as is the popular view here, then we make God out to be completely ineffective in our salvation. But, this has already been argued about 400 years ago at the Synod of Dort. If you wish to read it, it is at the Fifth Head of Doctrine (The Perseverance of the Saints), Rejection of Errors Paragraph 3 of the Canons produced at the Synod. It provides scripture references.
2007-03-22 20:05:27 · answer #5 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no.
It can not be taken away from you but you can give it away if you like.
It's your choice.
Mar 4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
Mar 4:6 But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away.
Mar 4:7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Mar 4:8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
Mar 4:9 And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Hbr 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
Hbr 3:7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
Hbr 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
Hbr 3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
Hbr 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.
Hbr 3:11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
2007-03-22 16:00:12 · answer #6 · answered by Bye Bye 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No you can't loose your salvation. If someone just says the prayer and doesn't really mean it then they never had salvation, you can't loose what you never had and they will continue to live in sin, but if someone believes in what they are asking of Christ they can't loose their salvation, at times a Christian may fall away from Christ but if they truly ment that prayer than they will come back to him. If you could loose it than Christ dying on the cross ment nothing.
2007-03-22 16:08:50 · answer #7 · answered by m cheryl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
John 3:16 For God so loved the world he gave is only begotten son, whosoever believeth in him shall have everalasting life.
it doesn't say whosoever believeth in him and is a good person it just says whosoever believeth in him. You can never lose your salvation
2007-03-22 16:01:25 · answer #8 · answered by Tman 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's kinda like maintaining a grip on something ythe momemt you let go of JESUS you have lost.
2007-03-22 16:08:08 · answer #9 · answered by andy r 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One can loose anything if you fiddle with it enough.
Maybe it takes a screwdriver or some pliers.
2007-03-22 16:00:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋