Never Really Saved to Begin With?

Ben (Kangaroodort) of Arminian Perspectives has put up a great post here showing how those who claim that all who fall away were ‘never saved to begin with’ would have to very creatively interpret quite a few passages in the Bible to support that doctrine.

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Does Christ’s Intercession Make Us Eternally Secure?

In the previous post entitled Is God Able to Keep People from Falling Away?, I posted the answer J.C. Thibodaux gave to TurretinFan on this topic in their debate about eternal security and the warning passages of Scripture. As the debate has continued, TurretinFan has asked JCT about how Christ’s intercession affects our salvation:
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Is God Able to Keep People From Falling Away?

I have been following the debate that J.C. Thibodaux and TurretinFan have been having on the issue of eternal security vs. conditional security and more specifically what purpose the warning passages in Scripture serve. Since TurretinFan’s question and JCT’s answer go straight to the heart of the debate between eternal securists and conditional securists, [...]

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An Interesting Article on Original Sin

On his website In Death or Life.org, J.C. Thibodaux has written a Biblically solid and informative article on Original Sin. His article is in response to popular Calvinist pastor John Piper’s writing on the subject on the imputation of Adam’s sin to mankind. To those interested in knowing more about the topic, I [...]

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Romans 8:38-39: Nor any other creature

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through [...]

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Ephesians 1:13, 14: The seal

The fact that people who have been saved can reject their salvation (Salvation) and hence be cut off, is clearly shown in several passages from the Bible, a few of which we have already discussed in my other posts. (Christ is Salvation, The Necessity of Abiding in Christ, Loss of Salvation: The Process, and Covenant)
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Covenant

My husband and I needed and purchased a car during our Christmas vacation 2006. When we bought it, we contracted ourselves to repay the bank for lending us money to get the car from the dealership. Sure we drove it off the lot, but the car was only ours as long as we kept our agreement [...]

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Loss of Salvation: The Process

Many people, especially opponents of conditional security, question most the process of falling away. The most common question is: how many sins does a person have to commit to lose their salvation? Will God send a person to Hell for committing one sin? I do not believe that salvation is unconditionally secure [...]

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The Necessity of Abiding in Christ

From cover to cover, the Bible is the story of God’s relations with man. From the Garden of Eden to the plagues and destruction in Revelation, I see a God Who is reaching out and calling to man to have a relationship with Him. Though God can change our wills, He rarely does, preferring instead [...]

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Christ is Salvation

THE NATURE OF SALVATION
When many people thing of salvation, they think of the event at which they “got saved.”  While salvation is not devoid of this event, this view is too limited in scope and tends to lead errors in how one perceives salvation.  I believe that the best way to see salvation is as less as an event and [...]

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Article on Total Depravity by Arminian Today

A few days ago I read an article on Arminian Today that examined a book by Jack Cottrell on total depravity.  The article is the first part in a series, and began by defining the various beliefs surrounding total depravity and gave a brief history surrounding each of them.  If you’re interested knowing a little bit [...]

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