Alofa Atu
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I didn't say salvation was probation. To say that is what I have said is a gross exaggeration and mischaracterization of my actual, and scriptural, position. Probation is the allotted time of God's grace to exercise that faith given, to live by the grace given. Salvation is the process or events. Event is not time. Time is not the event.Salvation is not probation. Eternal life is not temporary life. Jesus is the door. He is not a revolving door.
Eternal life is always conditional when speaking of created beings. Eternal life is found only "in" Christ Jesus, and that through faith. Thus the connective word, the action word, believeth.
Yes, Jesus is the door (into the Sanctuary). I didn't say that Jesus is a "revolving door". To say that is what I have said is a gross exaggeration and mischaracterization of my actual, and scriptural, position. A door opens, and a door closes, and a door may open and close again to either let in, or to let out. To keep in, or to keep out. Yet in so saying, Jesus is not a prison cell door, by which if one enters, may not leave of their own choice but is forcibly kept under lock and key. Jesus, being God manifest in the flesh, is love. Love does not forcibly retain those who no longer desire to remain in the union, who no longer believe. Love is always freedom to choose, never a prison cell, never a rape of the soul (forcibly retain those who no longer desire to stay). If one leaves Jesus, no longer believing, it is permanently, see Hebrews 6.
It is not as if Jesus forces people in, or forces persons out. A revolving door implies I must go out, but this is not so with Jesus. Only a possibility exists, by my own choice (Romans 8:39) and by using the gift given by God, that I may no longer believe, and choose to leave Him, and no longer believe in Him. It is not a must, but it is an if.
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