Desert Reign said,
Surely if believers are automatically guaranteed eternal life whatever they do after they are saved (even perhaps subsequently deciding they wanted nothing of Christ at all) then that is a whole lot of settling?
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The Problem comes when Jesus says that those that ENDURE to the End are Saved.
Mr 13:13 ....but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
JESUS and God have HIGH Standards and there are certain Qualities that must be met.
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Heb 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Lu 8:13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy;
and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
Heb 6:6 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.
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