[terycarl]

He gave us HIS Son that paid the penalty we can never pay

That's absulutely true...and it was His Son who said "whose sins that you shall forgive, they are forgiven.....etc...

So He clearly showed up how to acknowledge our responsibility for being sinners....the OSAS theory is nonsense at best and dangerous at worst.

[Old Yeller]

.the OSAS theory is nonsense at best and dangerous at worst.

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.
John 6:39

[RnMomof7]

That's absulutely true...and it was His Son who said "whose sins that you shall forgive, they are forgiven.....etc..

That was an ecclesiastical gift to the new Testament church for the purpose of excommunication ..

There is NO RECORD that the apostles "heard confessions" or that they believed they had the authority to do so

Rome had no practice of oral confession to a priest for forgiveness until 1215

Notice that Jesus told the apostles to ask forgiveness from God ...not each other. "There is one mediator between God and men "...and that is Christ jesus

[metmom]

How can being secure in your salvation be *dangerous*?

[boatbums]

So He clearly showed up how to acknowledge our responsibility for being sinners....the OSAS theory is nonsense at best and dangerous at worst.

Godly repentance is what brings us to saving faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus said whosoever believed in Him would HAVE everlasting life. The theory that the OSAS theory is nonsense and dangerous IS not only nonsense it is blasphemous and therefore dangerous because it calls Jesus a liar as well as the Holy Spirit who moved holy men of God to write the great and precious promises that we are sealed by the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption once we come to faith in Christ. I'd be seriously careful lest God call one to account for preaching an accursed gospel - one that makes salvation conditional on a believer's works instead of by faith.