Featured Some of the best Conditional “IF” Statements in the NT

You are misunderstanding my post. YOU are the one who is saying something the Verse does not say. I am in full agreement with what My Lord Jesus has said and my response is, "Because i DO love My Lord i will Keep His Commandments."

Your poor human reasoning skills has led you down a path of works based salvation that is No salvation. You are on the path that is wide and leads to destruction.

 

Acts 16:29-31 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,
And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

Your progressive salvation is not taught in scripture.

You are either saved and kept saved or you're not saved at all.

Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:


Either you believe or you don't.

John 6:28-29 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.


You are either a child of God through Faith in Jesus Christ or you are a child of satan.

Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

Salvation

Saved from the penalty of sin (eternal death)-Justification

Being saved from the power of sin-sanctification

Will be saved from the presence of sin- glorification

This is the guarantee of Salvation...The Moment you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of Promise

Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

One is saved when they are positionally, right or justified before God through imputed righteousness that comes from Christ.

Now, a Christian can be out of FELLOWSHIP with God and that is usually the misunderstanding in discussions like this.

We can't earn favor with God, we cannot bribe Him to get into heaven. Loving God doesn't get us into heaven, Loving God is a result of God's love to us by pardoning us through Christ's sacrifice.

We love God because He first loved us.

1 John 4:13-16, 19 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
We love him, because he first loved us.

 

Also, I don't think it can get any clearer...

Titus 3:4-7 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

And we then reciprocate the Love that God has shown us.

But unless our nature changes we will still continue in selfish motives

And the Bible does speak to a new nature within us, one that can Love as God desires us to...

2 Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.


1 Corinthians 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him

Romans 6:4, 7, 14, 18, 23 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
For he that is dead is freed from sin.
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

Thankfully it is only your opinion and not what scripture declares.

Salvation is of the Lord and He gifts it to all people who are born again and indwelt by the Spirit of the Living God. They are sealed until the day they meet Christ face to face.

 

Jesus is faithful , even while we at times are not to Him!

 

As the Reforrm would see this as those who are the Elect and have really been saved will be shown keeping their faith until te very end. Will have times of sinning, disobedince, but will in the end be shown as not departing from the faith. Impossible to do that and lose our life in Christ, as its God Himself who keeps and perserves us..

 

Now we are really going off the deepend. Visions?

Let me address one thing, why do you concluded that those who take the Mark of the beast are Christians? Where in the text do you see this reality?

 

Samuel, if we are sticking true to your doctrine then one could assert that you would have probably lost your salvation several times in this thread by demonstrating a prideful and haughty spirit. Have you repented in the last 24 hours?