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To: Elsie

No, I’m talking about the one who may have walked away from Christ but then later changes his mind/repents and comes back. That passage in Hebrews if read the way it was explained makes it sound like there IS no coming back and I reject that (i.e., the Prodigal Son).


263 posted on 02/22/2017 8:09:17 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: boatbums

I think there is a difference in falling into sin again vs not Believing that Christ can SAVE you from that sin.


271 posted on 02/23/2017 3:36:21 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: boatbums
No, I’m talking about the one who may have walked away from Christ but then later changes his mind/repents and comes back. That passage in Hebrews if read the way it was explained makes it sound like there IS no coming back and I reject that (i.e., the Prodigal Son).

And the son never stopped ceasing to be the son and the father RAN out to meet him, welcoming him back and forgiving him freely.

Now that doesn't mean there aren't consequences. The son lost his inheritance but he was still home with the father as part of the family.

Likewise, those who stray will lose reward, but not salvation.

Salvation is not the reward. Crowns are and I think other rewards, but the salvation itself is sealed.

306 posted on 02/23/2017 9:04:03 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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