To: pinochet
According to Protestant teachings, if a person becomes saved, are his future sins forgiven? That's what we're taught, yes.
Can a person lose his salvation?
No.
If not, can assurance of salvation become a license to sin?
No. If one's acceptance of Christ is true, then one will not wish to sin. We all transgress, of course, but deliberately going out and sinning because we think we have a free pass means that our conversion was not genuine.
14 posted on
10/28/2007 5:19:04 PM PDT by
Not A Snowbird
(Some people are like slinkys, the idea of them tumbling down a flight of stairs makes you smile.)
To: SandyInSeattle; pinochet
Please don't confuse "saved by Grace alone" with the heresy known as antinomianism.
They're really, really, really different and are rejected by all real Catholics and Protestants (and Orthodox).
79 posted on
10/28/2007 5:55:47 PM PDT by
muawiyah
To: SandyInSeattle
“No. If one’s acceptance of Christ is true, then one will not wish to sin. We all transgress, of course, but deliberately going out and sinning because we think we have a free pass means that our conversion was not genuine”.
While I am not of the belief “once saved, always saved” I do agree wholeheartedly with the above statement.
BTW, I love your tag line LOL
135 posted on
10/28/2007 7:11:43 PM PDT by
MaggieM
To: SandyInSeattle
I thought that if one blasphemed the Holy Spirit one was condemned. If you are saved and renounce the spirit you are refusing grace. All sins but one can be forgiven and that is a sin of the heart.
To: SandyInSeattle
We all transgress, of course, but deliberately going out and sinning because we think we have a free pass means that our conversion was not genuine.I'll admit that the Prot. notion of 'once saved, always saved' struck me as hard to believe, but your explanation is a very good one.
300 posted on
10/29/2007 11:58:12 AM PDT by
Patriotic1
(Dic mihi solum facta, domina - Just the facts, ma'am)
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