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To: Mad Dawg
In one of those collections of “I was was not a Catholic and now I am,” stories a young lady got “saved” many times because she was not SURE she was saved.

And that's not uncommon especially with religions that tell you that you can lose your salvation...

But regardless of how many times you ask the Lord to save you, it only takes one time...

If I work at it, I can see that you are saying something like, “If you have to ask if you are saved, you aren’t.”

It's more like; if you don't know what being saved is, you apparently don't understand salvation...

But there are ample texts which SEEM to propose the idea that one could be like St. Paul and still lose out at the end; one could call on the name of the Lord but still be denied by Him at the end; one could be summoned before Him and be sent away not on the basis of ‘faith’ but on thee mercy shown to the least of His brethren.

I agree with you...And I apparently am one of the few who believes the scriptures are clear that salvation can be lost and works are necessary in one dispensation while in another dispensation (the church age), we are eternally secure in our salvation, with works of any kind...

Such folks to not FEEL assurance.

One must be careful when depending on 'feelings'...And certainly Satan will attack anyone's knowledge of eternal security...That's why we are to constantly be on guard with the Sword of the Spirit which is the word of God...

7,386 posted on 08/07/2010 7:48:00 AM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)
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To: Iscool
And that's not uncommon especially with religions that tell you that you can lose your salvation...

Well her point was that hers was one of those which said you couldn't lose your salvation but which also said "everybody talkin' 'bout heaven ain't goin' there," that you could THINK you were saved and be wrong.

7,393 posted on 08/07/2010 8:20:47 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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