How do the proponents of the idea that salvation once received cannot be lost explain Hebrews 6:4-6 and 10:26-29?
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How do the proponents of the idea that salvation once received cannot be lost explain the following verses:
Hebrews 6:4-6:
> For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have
> tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy
> Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the
> world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto
> repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh,
> and put [him] to an open shame.
and Hebrews 10:26-29:
> For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of
> the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain
> fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall
> devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses' law died without mercy
> under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose
> ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of
> God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was
> sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of
> grace?
It seems to me that both places are about Christians who had once received salvation, but later lost it due to their change in mind or in faith.
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Sep 22, 2012, 03:48 PM
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