Yep, that's the part that disgusts me. Obviously, Paul was a fool to go off preaching all those years, because once he got 'saved', he could have become a satan worshiper with no ill effect because he already had his free pass into heaven.
I am amazed by this mindset. Such thinking basically makes God out to be a complete fool. He is offering the opportunity to spend eternity with Him - an eternity of relationship with Him - yet He doesn't care if we reject Him in this trial run called 'life' as long as we claim we believe and declare ourselves 'saved'. As far as I can tell, this OSAS mindset reduces the Bible down to about a page and a half. All that talk about the kingdom of heaven and dying to self is just wasted ink.
OH, are you “disgusted” and “amazed” Hoodat? Fortunately for me, you didn’t die for my sins. See, I did not receive a “To Do” list from God. I received a “DONE” list. BTW: That’s what the FINISHED WORK OF CHRIST IS. It means FINISHED. DONE.
Smvoice isn’t being rude. Narses is Catholic, and one of the more loud ones on the forum. (But not a lot to say.) Smvoice is merely responding to Narses’ misrepresenting our position. Obviously no one actually believes that the elect can sin all they like. Our position has already been firmly stated in other posts in this thread, so all of this is really just going over old ground again.