Thanks for the reply.Hill Top wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:36 pmThere is a war for our souls going on.bibleman wrote: ↑Sat Dec 29, 2018 1:03 pm Hi Hill Top
Above you said: "I do believe that those who have God's seed in them cannot fall away,..."
Then you say: "We must be wary till the end of our lives, not to be found wanting at the end of time."
Question if we cannot fall away as you first say... Then how can your second statement possible make any kind of sense? "We must be wary till the end of our lives, not to be found wanting at the end of time."
Every day, trials will assault our heritage in Christ.
Those with God's seed in them will do all they can not to fall, and by the grace of God will weather every trial.
Those without God's seed in them cannot resist all the temptations of this world.
By the gifts given to us by God we are capable of remaining pure: but if we neglect or ignore those gifts we show from whose seed we are really of.
Remaining a Christian takes effort.
Christianity isn't a "force field" from sin.
It is the tools we require to manifest we are of God.
BTW, it isn't "me" that says we can't fall away.
It is 1 John 3:9.
Above you said: "Those with God's seed in them will do all they can not to fall, and by the grace of God will weather every trial."
Well again above you said: ""I do believe that those who have God's seed in them cannot fall away,..."
Well if those who have God's seed in them CANNOT fall away then then who cares what they do to weather the storm?
What does it matter what they do... according to what you are saying they CANNOT fall away anyway... then there is no sense in them trying to "do all they can not to fall," since they are never going to fall anyway.
Seems your doctrine is some version of OSAS...