My denomination believes in the eternal security of the believer-what most people call: once saved, always saved(i.e, if a person is truly saved, he cannot lose that salvation).
However,this has nothing to do with the believer, everything to do with the God. My God is all-powerful, omniscient, and omnipresent. He also is constant-He does not change. It is stated somewhere in the Bible, that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. And another place states that NOTHING can snatch a believer out of the hand of God.
I fear that most people believe in a works based salvation wherein a person can be saved today, then do something wrong(sin), and lose his salvation, and then have to be resaved to regain his salvation. This diminishes God, and in my eyes, would make such a god unworthy of worship.
I believe in a God who saves us by grace through faith-it is a free gift(grace)-the faith comes from Him(Ephesians 2: 8-9: For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no man can boast.)
I will not take the time right now to go into all the ramifications of my belief system, but it involves much more than just the salvation of individual believers. It involves such diverse topics as global warming and all of human history.
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