Is 'Once Saved, Always Saved' a scriptural doctrine?

Many people have been told that "believing on Jesus" is a single act and that our faith does not have to be strong enough to prompt obedience. But the Bible disagrees. Jesus did not say that people who begin the Christian course are saved. Instead, he said: "He that has endured to the end is the one that will be saved." (Matthew 10:22) The Bible likens our Christian course to a race, with salvation being the prize at its end. And it urges: "Run in such a way that you may attain it."—1 Corinthians 9:24.

Thus, "accepting Christ" involves far more than just accepting the blessings that Jesus' superlative sacrifice offers. Obedience is required. The apostle Peter says that judgment starts "with the house of God," and adds: "Now if it starts first with us, what will the end be of those who are not obedient to the good news of God?" (1 Peter 4:17) So we must do more than simply hear and believe. The Bible says that we must "become doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving [ourselves] with false reasoning."—James 1:22.

Ask yourself - doesn't saved mean safe?

Isn't that why the Old Testament doesn't use that word?

God doesn't want you to be in fear - Jesus was the perfect sacrifice, Jesus was the eternal sacrifice and thus you have His imputed righteousness when you get saved, born again into the family of God, adopted by the Holy Spirit.

Col 2 says that there is a spiritual circumcision that happens at this time and your soul is baptized by the Holy Ghost and sealed unto the redemption of your body.

The idea of being born again is being born of the Everlasting Father which is one of the Messiah's titles in Isa 9:6.

Again, the Bible doesn't use the term saved in the Old Testament because they were never safe. Its how we use the word still to this day and no one use it any differently or they'd be a liar. If someone carried you out of a burning building the news would say that he saved you but if you ran back into the burning building and died, they would just say that someone carried you out. They would never say you were saved.

The verses that those who want to prey on your salvation and keep you under their religious thumb are either out of the Old Testament or the Tribulation Testaments like James or Revelation, or out of The Constitution of the Kingdom Passages in Matt, Mark and Luke but John says to believe.

Jesus Christ is the Eternal God. Think of it - when was His sacrifice? If it was that long ago then you were still in the future, when you accepted His blood as forgiveness for you sins it was from an act that was over 1900 years in the past. If He knew about your sins then don't you think He knew about your sins after you got saved? Don't you think He knows about your sins still in the future?

Yes, He did, and He does.

God's got that covered too ...

1Jo 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

Your past sin, your present sins and your future sins.

Hello,

No, a Calvinist one derived from the Bible. True, Christ says that he that believes in Me will never die and you only get to the Father by him but then again He either means what He says or He is totally contradicting himself when he gives dire warnings about not taking your cross and following his teachings, Matthew 25:35 about the sheep and the goats, neglecting to look after your fellow man, Matthew 18, The Ungrateful Servant with respect to not forgiving others let alone Corinthians 6 about the fate of those who continue to live a debaucherous, sinful life.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Absolutely not. The Bible clearly states, "He who endures until the end, he SHALL be saved". Which obviously means "He who does not endure until the end, he who turns away, will not be saved". The frequently quoted passages from Romans 8 and John 10, which are often used in an effort to support this unbiblical tradition, says that nothing can separate us [against our will] from the love of God. It doesn't say that we cannot freely choose to abandon Christ.

Paul obviously didn't think he was "already saved", or he would not have written: "I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after having preached salvation to others, I myself may not be DISQUALIFIED". (1 Cor 9:27) And neither did any Christian on Earth prior to the 16th Century.

I do not believe so. Revelations, towards the end says that we will ALL be judged according to our deeds, good and bad! The concept of "once saved, always saved" can not be correct because to believe so, you have to believe that the book of Revelations is lying about judgment and salvation. Something which could have a cascade like effect.

No

http://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/sayings.cfm#onc...

First of all, slogans like "Once Saved, Always Saved" are always regrettable because they polarize an issue, causing them to be touted or denounced vehemently not on the basis of truth as truth is, but only as it is represented in the stark world of sloganeering.

The rest here:

http://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/sayings.cfm#onc...

Then read the parable of the sower and seeds

Yes it is> Ephesians 2 tell us that we have been "sealed unto the day..." that means that the Spirit IS a deposit of our inheritance. When Christ comes, we'll go home. Yep!

Yes. I used to not think so, but after diving in and studying, I have full confidence in this doctrine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cncEhCvrVgQ

This video sermon above is about an hour but contains more biblical doctrine than I've ever heard in an hour's time. Plus, this site below has good articles about it:

http://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-lose-salvati...

As for the Sower and the Seed, and also for John 15, those mention LEAVES. But Christians are known by their fruit - not their leaves. Even John 15 makes this clear. So if there is no fruit, the person is not a Christian, even if they had leaves.

Indeed it is. To say otherwise would be like saying that Christ didn't get it right the first time. He's not going to die for us again.

I believe it is, yes, but not everyone does.

Rom 8:39 ~ "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Phil. 1:6 ~ "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus."