SavedByGrace
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These words in chapter 3 are to BELIEVERS, and not the UNSAVEDOh you and I have evidence that is where we are bound, its called faith but until I'm standing in the presence of the Lord, where is the reality?... See you think since you have joined, you did something to get saved... And have to say in that mindset, if you slip, you're not, if you slip in life are you saved?... And the way I look at the thief on the cross, his heart was changed by God, allowing him to believe and repent... He had to know who he believed in before he could repent... When he said Jesus, Lord he knew who he was, now he can repent... Remember me, when thou comest into thy kingdom... I hear people ask me, well why didn't he save the other one?... I don't know!... Ask God!... Brother Glen
2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight)
8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Wherefore, even as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye shall hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the temptation in the wilderness, 9 Wherewith your fathers tempted [me] by proving [me], And saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do alway err in their heart: But they did not know my ways; 11 As I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. 12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: 13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called Today; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin: 14 for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end:
I am not interested in "theology", but what the Bible says. Now can you explain this passage?