I did a study on apostasy, and it is quite clear. Backsliding itself is not having your name blotted out, but after becoming a Christian and then denying Jesus or taking another faith is basically blaspheming the Holy Spirit, and that gets your name blotted out. Once the name is blotted out, it does never go back in there... that's what an apostate or reprobate is.

Its there in the scriptures... every promise of the Covenant including salvation is with conditions. All the promises of God are conditional... all of them.

I have come to the conclusion on the grace question that those who call themselves Armenians and those who call themselves Calvinists only see half of the truth... their own half. The full truth is taking all that the Bible says together. We don't need to follow Calvin (Baptists only follow 1 or maybe 2 parts of what he taught anyway, modern Baptists reject the rest of Calvinism) or the other fellow who thought the other way. The truth is the balance of the Word...

we can either decide to change our beliefs to reflect what the Bible teaches, or hold to our own views and keep our key scriptures and try to ignore the others that disagree with it. But that's not honest with God if we do that.

I have sat in Sunday School classes of churches who taught both sides of the issue and get almost tickled at how that some of them say the same things about each other unknowingly. The truth is that each side has half of a truth... its like seeing two sides of the same mountain. And because they have been given a predisposition toward one view or the other in their spiritual upbringing, they just don't take what the bible just says about it as is. I think that this has been one mistake of the reformation... trying to side on one or the other on this. The Bible teaches a balanced doctrine, however. We need to follow the Bible doctrine, and not just a church organization doctrine.

James


Quote:
Philippians 3:8-10 " 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ, 9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;


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