......what you espouse is complete heresy and by that I mean it in its strongest form.
Your post and this attack on me is a showcase display of the sort of extreme bigotry that discourages many from sharing their thoughts into God's word here on the BB; and by that, I mean bigotry as ugly as it gets.
This is completely absurd. In fact there are no words to accurately describe it. It shows a complete incompetence in scripture and a deeply seated ignorance.
There's nothing absurd about it. But unlike you, I have words to describe your malicious objection. It shows a shallow hasty approach towards God's word on your part, and a complete disdain for anyone who has placed any serious personal meditation or contemplation into God's word if it happens to be contrary to your beliefs.
Salvation is not a process and no scripture indicates anything of the sort.
In the post referenced, and that you're misrepresenting, I made the statement: “Gospel Salvation is indeed a continuing process, not a one time event...”. I also described it as “an ongoing experience, not a one time event”, and again, I described salvation as a “ personal experience between one and God”. All these descriptions I provided are referring to the timely, practical aspects of our salvation and has nothing to do with our eternal standing with God which He has fixed for us. The roots of this differentiation between the effectual (internal) call and the gospel (external) call , i.e. eternal salvation and gospel salvation, were espoused even by the OLD Southern Baptists, to which you supposedly belong.:
http://www.founders.org/journal/fj02/article2.html
http://www.founders.org/journal/fj40/article2.html
I reiterate: THE TIMELY ASPECTS OF OUR SALVATION IS AN ONGOING, CONTINUING AFFAIR, NOT A ONE TIME EVENT. THE EFFECTUAL CALL ON THE OTHER HAND IS INDEED A ONE TIME EVENT.
Your personal interpretation leads to a life time of earning salvation.
That is the grossest of misrepresentations. In no way am I implying that salvation is earned.
QUESTION FOR YOU REVMITCHELL:
If our salvation in this time world is not an ongoing, continuing process, why the warnings in these passages?:
......to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:
if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, Col 1:22,23
Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God`s goodness,
if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. Ro 11:22
Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand, by which also ye are saved,
if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain. 1 Cor 15:1,2
but Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we,
if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end...... for we are become partakers of Christ,
if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end: Heb 3:6,14
Are you implying that we're not capable of making shipwreck of our faith? If so, that is heresy in it's strongest form.