Does this mean you can murder ,rape and commit imorral acts against chrildren and still be found pure in gods eyes ?
2007-10-13 05:23:50 · 19 answers · asked by pestie58 the spider hunter 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"Walk the walk and talk the talk," "change your ways"...do you mean works? Do you mean that you actually have to DO something to be saved? I think that is what you are saying...
2007-10-13 06:11:14 · answer #1 · answered by Myth Buster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that is not what it means. When a person is truly saved, he has NO desire to do those things. Salvation is not a free ticket to sin, although all Christians and all people do sin to a degree. Once you are saved, your desire is to live a Christ-like life. Christians are not perfect.
The sins we committed before we were saved will not be remembered by God.
I believe that sins committed after being saved will be paid for in one way or another- in this life or in the judgment reserved for Christians. Yes, there will be a special judgment for Christians. Just not the same ones as for persons who were never saved. At that judgment, we Christians will be so ashamed of all the bad things we did after Jesus saved us. We may have already paid for part of it in this earthly body. But, we will still have to answer to God.
Jesus said that we are His and no man is able to pluck us out of His hand. So, yes, once you are saved, you never become unsaved.
2007-10-13 12:27:25 · answer #2 · answered by Faye 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You aren't saved forever once you have been saved once. In other words, if you murder, rape and commit imorral acts, you won't be saved.
(If the coast guard sends a boat to save you, and once you are on, the boat blows up, you die. So once saved always saved is just a way of some religions trying to get donations from atheists because of pascals wager...)
2007-10-13 12:33:05 · answer #3 · answered by Tony C 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I say NO. There are, I believe , some scriptures that talk about falling away, and not coming back. I don't see that the Bible states it either way in so many words. But if you are truly saved, then why would you do the afore mentioned? I also believe that you could "renounce" your salvation, and God would honor that. But here again, if you did this, were you truly saved.
2007-10-13 12:32:28 · answer #4 · answered by RB 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. One must according to Paul(?) renew thy works. And if one has been saved from a sin then that person has to know that commiting the same sin would become a new sin of which he would have to repent. It is a continuous process...unless by becoming saved you are miraculously given power over the desires of the flesh and no longer ever commit a sin for the remainder of your life. I have yet to meet any one who fits that criteria.
2007-10-13 12:32:08 · answer #5 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no...just because you are saved does not make you perfect and it does not mean you can sin when ever you feel like it and expect to go to heaven. it doesn't work that way. in order to be saved you have to walk the walk and talk the talk. you cant do anything you want and expect to get away with it. if you live a life of sin..you will go to hell.
2007-10-13 12:32:39 · answer #6 · answered by Ms. Lady 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
To be saved means to change your ways to follow God. Once saved these acts are no longer a part of your life. While every one stumbles if you intentionally do it you are not saved.
2007-10-13 12:33:29 · answer #7 · answered by Wilber 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Once saved always save is an expresion said by some christians but i ask is this what the bible really teaches ?
If this is true is it a licence to do what ever you wish ?
2007-10-13 12:44:42 · answer #8 · answered by 1 of a great crowd 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Your question betrays your present condition. A saved person normally does not do such things as you mentioned. Christ transforms this person's heart and gives him/her new desires to do what's pleasing to God. Jesus said, "By their works you shall know them." And just to clarify, once saved, saved for good.
2007-10-13 12:31:14 · answer #9 · answered by Mutations Killed Darwin Fish 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This phrase is to be found nowhere in scripture and in fact was invented by Calvin in order to undermine Catholic teaching of the day.
Taken literally it as you point out can be very dangerous indeed.
2007-10-13 12:31:28 · answer #10 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋