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Can a born again Christian lose their salvation??
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 5392:MV8xOTE5NTFfMzcwNjI5NF9DNDk4NTYyOA==] In the final analysis I'm not sure that being on one side of the fence or the other is critical. I again state that I don't live in fear that I will fall from grace. "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our tresspasses" is something I could never deny. Agree to disagree, brother? ************************************** We can disagree on many things but the truth stands as truth in spite of what we believe to be true. And we are all at different levels of maturity in coming to the fulness and stature of Christ. It is the work of the Holy Spirit on each individual that progresses us into the stature of Christ's fulness, not our own endeavers. But in the final analysis I see the side of the fence we are on as a dividing factor between love and pride, or trusting in our self-works of righteousness and ability to be obedient instead of complete trust and faith in Christ's righteousness. I personally don't see it possible to avoid the reality of Jesus in my life and even though I could deny Him with my lips, my heart and spirit know different making it impossible to deny the substance of Him that He has given me. Peter himself denied Christ in his hour, but never ceased to be one of the Lord's chosen. And even though the Shepherd was struck and the sheep were scattered, He lost not one except Judas, and that was only to fulfill the prophecy. So how does one judge when one has departed from God's love, I would certainly consider all the disciples to have fallen away when they were scattered because of His death, by the outer appearance of what manifested in the physical in their lives, but Jesus says different and didn't consider them fallen from Him in any way. Romans 8 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: “ For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. [/quote]
Original Message
1 John 3:9
Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
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