do you beleive in "once saved always saved" or do you beleive you can lose your salvation?

Answer 1

Over time everyone changes and if it be a change for the worse, well that may result in a loss of salvation.

Answer 2

I've done a search of history to determine when did Christians first begin teaching that you could not lose your salvation. The early church fathers all seemed to believe you could lose your salvation.. And so it continues for over a thousand years...

Then in the 16th century a German Monk named Martin Luther first begins teaching this new doctrine.. Before the Protestant Reformation no one ever believed or heard the words, "once saved, always saved." So, its only been in existence for less than 500 years.

Answer 3

The term once saved always saved is nowhere found in the Bible. We are warned countless times about backsliding. When a person is saved, he makes a complete turnaround in his life. He turns his back on sin and decides to live as God would have him to. If after you have been cleansed and you return back to the way you were, you are worse off than when you started. Look up these verses Ist Corinthians 10:12. and second Peter 2:20-22.

Answer 4

Salvation can be lost, because salvation is not just a one-time event. It starts when one is baptized and/or accepts Jesus as Saviour, but the Christian must bear good spiritual fruit throughout life to be saved. If one -- especially a Christian -- has fallen into unrepented mortal sin when one dies, then one is in danger of Hell. That is why the Sacrament of Penance (confession) is so important, since the priest is the conduit for forgiveness (the priest is acting in Christ's name).

Answer 5

If you can opt into salvation on your own, why wouldn't you be able to opt out on your own? And if you believe that God chooses you, then why wouldn't he also be powerful enough to keep you?

There is no security in the first premise and belief becomes a throw of the dice as to whether you will have it at any point in the future. The second is a reflection of incredible love as well as power. It has a permanence and a divine comfort to it, so I'll go with that one.

Answer 6

Many preachers lull human beings right into a fake experience of secure practices with their indiscriminate use of “born returned” and “as quickly as saved, constantly saved” slogans and theology. tens of millions of people from almost each and every faith and sect of Christendom have been led to have self assurance that they are “born returned” and “saved.” Unblushing politicians blithely make an identical declare. sure, their well-known preachers tell them that they are at peace with God because of the fact they are “saved”—and this in spite of their non secular, political, and nationalistic divisions! And the folk like it, on an identical time as they did in Jeremiah’s day! (Jeremiah 5:31; 14:14) they think of they are previous the attain of God’s Armageddon judgment.—Jeremiah 6:14; 23:17; a million Corinthians a million:10; Revelation sixteen:14, sixteen. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, a careful learn of God’s be conscious and Christ’s teachings shows that basically a constrained variety share the privilege of being born returned, born ‘from water and from spirit,’ to that end to share heavenly rulership with Christ. (John 3:3-5; Romans 8:sixteen, 17; Revelation 14:a million-3) The “great crowd” of authentic Christians as we talk do not would desire to be born returned, because of the fact that their wish of eternal existence is earthly, not heavenly. (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:3, 4) besides, Christendom’s coaching is in line with a fake premise—that guy has an immortal soul in want of salvation. Nowhere in the Bible is there help for certainly one of those doctrine, that's rather derived from historic Greek philosophy.

Answer 7

It is possible to lose your salvation. Once saved always saved is a man made doctrine, one on a long, long list.

Answer 8

I believe that once you have received baptism in spirit from a Christed Saint, (There are a great many alive NOW.) You have fulfilled the law and are no longer subject to it, no more a "sinner". It does take time and effort to renew the mind & body, during this period one may appear to "sin" but there is no sin attributed to him. He may regress but his Guru (Saint) will not let him fall from Grace. He will attain Christ Consciousness in no more than three life times. I have omitted much, due to limited time & space.

Answer 9

I don't believe "once saved always saved" since that is NOT found in the Bible.

Many warnings exist in the Bible warning us about losing our salvation. Why would those warnings be there, if it was not possible?

Pastor Art

Answer 10

After you are saved I believe you could lose it. What if you decided to convert to atheism, started preaching there was no God or Jesus, went on a murder spree, etc...
What do you think?

The Old Testament is full of examples of people who fell out of God's grace.