those few obscure passages that "seem" to teach otherwise must be examined and the possibility strongly considered that they are teaching something else altogether.
True -- and so here we have an example of the "weight of scripture"
Choose the Bible - as your basis for doctrine
Matt 18
32 Then summoning him, his lord *said to him, ‘You wicked slave,
I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. 33 Should you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, in the same way that I had mercy on you?’ 34 And his lord, moved with anger,
handed him over to the torturers until he should repay all that was owed him. 35
My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”
Romans 11
19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” 20 Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but
you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; 21 for if God did not spare the natural branches,
He will not spare you, either. 22 Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but
to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness;
otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for
God is able to graft them in again.
1 Cor 6
9 Or do you not know that
the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived;
neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor
the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers,
will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified
Ezek 18
21 “But if a wicked person turns away from all the sins they have committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, that person will surely live; they will not die. 22 None of the offenses they have committed will be remembered against them. Because of the righteous things they have done, they will live. 23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
24 “But
if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does,
will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and
because of the sins they have committed, they will die.
25 “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear, you Israelites: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust? 26
If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin, they will die for it;
because of the sin they have committed they will die.
4. The
soul that sins - it shall die
1 Cor 9
23 I do all things for th
e sake of the gospel, so that I may become a
fellow partaker of it.
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but
only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. 25 Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then
do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; 27 but
I buffet my body and make it my slave,
lest after I have preached (the Gospel) to others, I myself will not be disqualified from it.
Hebrews 6
4 For
it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have
become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 if they fall away,
to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put
Him to an open shame.
Gal 5
4
You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law;
you have fallen from grace
..
Heb 2
1 For this reason we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it. 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty, 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?
After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,
1 Cor 10
11 Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall......
----------------------------------------------------------------------- this small list given for this reason
To show briefly that this is not the case of "one or two texts that must be fixed to fit OSAS" - but there is the whole of scripture to be reckoned with on this subject as the apparent meaning clearly seen in the text is not at all in line with the ideas suggested in OSAS.
