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Asking how many sins it takes to lose your salvation...

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **6/15/11 9:46 am**

is like asking how many affairs you can have before your spouse divorces you.

(Actually heard of all people Pat Robertson--who also says he believes in eternal security--say that a while back on his show).

In any case, a righteous word indeed.

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 16509 **6/15/11 10:46 am**

AGAIN I say unto thee.....on cannot LOSE one's salvation. One can lose their wallet, their keys, their watch, but THANK GOD, one cannot lose their salvation.

What kind of God would it be to allow us to LOSE our salvation like we would our keys? No wonder we grew up paranoid. You just never know when you are walking down the road and OOPS......I can't find my salvation. If I don't find it I will go to hell. What did I do with my salvation????

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **6/15/11 10:55 am**

Eddie, that's a good point as well. I don't believe we can lose salvation like we can lose our keys or our wallet.

I do believe we can forfeit, forsake, turn away from following Jesus, and be lost.

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 16509 **6/15/11 11:01 am**

I believe that in order for one to NOT be saved, they must no longer believe Jesus is who He says He is. I believe it is a rare occasion. This is where most of the folks probably disagree with me here and in the COG, but it's my strong opinion and we all have the right to disagree. I do NOT believe in OSAS because I believe on can renounce the faith and no longer believe in Jesus. But it is rare if they truly believed to begin with.

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **6/15/11 11:54 am**

or how many doses of poison it might take to kill you.

Re: Asking how many sins it takes to lose your salvation...

Acts-dicted Posts: 9027 **6/15/11 12:10 pm**

Sin may taste sweet the first few licks...

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **6/15/11 12:32 pm**

Prov 5:3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;
4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death,
Her steps take hold of Sheol. NASB

Re: Sin may taste sweet the first few licks...

Acts-dicted Posts: 9027 **6/15/11 1:00 pm**

Re: Sin may taste sweet the first few licks...

Acts-celerater Posts: 538 **6/15/11 1:11 pm**

Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 5431 **6/15/11 1:12 pm**

Friendly Face Posts: 117 **6/15/11 1:34 pm**

This question reminds me of the Tootsie Pop commercial when the question was asked--How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? Ask Mr.Qwl. I don't want to know how many because I would probably sin right up to the limit, repent, and start over again Ha Ha

Re: Sin may taste sweet the first few licks...

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **6/15/11 2:07 pm**

Friendly Face Posts: 161 **6/15/11 3:23 pm**

I have to go along with Eddie on this one.

Jesus said in Matt. 13:44 that "the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field."

I saw James Merritt one time do an interview with Benny Hinn on TBN. Benny was being quite sarcastic about OSAS. Merritt immediately stopped him and said he didn't believe in OSAS, he told Benny that he believed in "once TRULY saved always saved." James gave his points through the gospel and basically shut Benny up. I've been on the side preaching against OSAS, then guess what, I got radically saved. I went and bought the treasure that was hidden, I can't go back. Do I willfully sin? No. 1 John 5:18 says so. Do I sin? Yes. Sin is not what I do, it's what's inside of me. Thank God for Christ. J.I. Packer says that 2 Cor. 5:21 is the most important scripture in the bible, it took me awhile to grasp it but it makes me weep and cry for joy every time I read it or hear it. Packer calls it "the beautiful exchange."

Those that have been bought have been bought, there is no refund or return. Are there "fake" conversions? Maybe, that is not my place to say.
His "sheep" will hear His voice and no one else will they listen too.

Acts-pert Poster Posts: 16509 **6/15/11 3:45 pm**

AND because we were brought up believing that every and any sin will send you to hell, we just about have to be de-programmed. That mess is DEEP inside and is hard to get out. I still judge a man when I see him smoking and have to stop for a moment and realize he may be a believer just like the preachers that abuse their bodies. It's tough to overcome. I am 56 years old and am still working on getting rid of that mess.

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Hon. Dr. in Acts-celeratology Posts: 7307 **6/16/11 8:33 am**

One forfeits salvation when they no longer believe in Jesus Christ.

Only faith in Jesus can save us, without it we are lost.

Can't happen?

Search the Scriptures and think again.
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Charles A. Hutchins
Senior Pastor SPWC
Congregational Church of God

www.spwc.church

Golf Cart Mafia Consigliere Posts: 3382 **6/16/11 10:29 am**

I would ask in response to your question, "is salvation and event or is it a relationship?"

Romans 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

If it is nearer, how could it be complete?

Is it static or dynamic?

I say dynamic!

Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Notice he uses the term being reconciled...he says we were reconciled, by His death (that was the event), but we are being reconciled to God by His life. Christ alive in us then, is our salvation. And He is alive in us, by our faith in Him every day.

[Insert Acts Pun Here] Posts: 12817 **6/16/11 11:01 am**