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To: Nabber

There was only one sacrifice on the Cross. If you assert you must continually repent for eternal life, then you deny His saving work. This does not mean in any fashion that fellowship with God remains the same upon post salvation sin with respect to the continuing work of the Holy Spirit in further sanctification of the believer. The passages that stress confession after post salvation sin, refer to the believer continuing in fellowship with God through faith in Christ. They do not refer to a loss of eternal life, again and again and again, only to receive eternal life agian and again and again after confession, nor is eternal life a vacuous promise only to be found after a future Judgment. The Judgment has already occured on the Cross. Another series of judgments occur, but for the believer they are focused on the believer's eternal rewards, not grilling the believer to see if, well, maybe, just maybe, if his sins weren;t too terrible, he might just be allowed sortof to come on into heaven grudgingly.

Once saved, always saved is only anathema for the condemned who not only rebel against the mind of Christ, but who seek to counterfeit His plan with their own works independent of faith through Christ. It is the Gospel for believers.


240 posted on 01/05/2007 8:31:25 PM PST by Cvengr
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To: Cvengr

"The Judgment has already occured on the Cross. Another series of judgments occur..."

Gee, I'm glad you have all these judgments sorted out. Jesus laid all this out in His words? Guess I missed that.

I guess you'll quote some obscure Pauline words to me now.

Your theology is a little too complicated.

Let me help you out. You murder somebody, you commit adultery, abuse children, and perhaps some other serious sins, then you proceed to not ask God's forgiveness, you risk serious judgment, perhaps including hell.


252 posted on 01/06/2007 1:20:27 PM PST by Nabber
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