Go to The Narrow Path Ministry Topic: Losing (Faith or Salvation) |
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2024-03-21 |
Sealed by the Spirit but Losing One's Salvation: Could you give examples of how someone sealed with the Holy Spirit can still lose their salvation for all eternity? Rec: Topical Lectures: "Content of the Gospels," "Eternal Security." [1 John 5:11-12, John 3:16, John 3:36, John 15:1-6, Romans 11:16-22, 1 Corinthians 9:26-27]. |
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2024-02-05 |
Caught in the Act (of Sin): If someone is caught in the act of sin (stealing, idolatry, etc.) when Jesus comes back, will they lose their salvation? [James 3:2, Matthew 18:21-22]. |
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2024-01-15 |
Losing One's Salvation: If someone loses their salvation, how do they get it back? [1 John 5:11-12]. |
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2023-12-13 |
Bad Christians & Politics: Caller shares that he is trying to make his way back to God but bad Christians, Dispensationalism, and Christian distraction with politics continue derailing him. [Acts 1:7, Matthew 24:36, Romans 13:1]. |
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2023-10-20 |
Losing One's Faith: If someone loses their faith, were they ever really saved? An atheist questioned, "How someone could be persuaded to disbelieve?" [Luke 9:62]. |
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2023-07-28 |
Eternal Security: How does one "continue" in the faith, so as to not lose it? De we ensure it, or does God? [Luke 22:31-32, 1 Peter 1:5, Jude 1:24-25]. |
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2023-05-02 |
Fear of Losing One's Salvation: How can I deal with my fear of sinning too much and losing my salvation? [Matthew 18:21-22, John 15:13]. |
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2023-05-01 |
Holding Back from God: Can I hold reservations or a plan B, if I am skeptical that God will be there for me and meet my need, and still be found acceptable to God? [Philippians 3:14-15]. |
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2023-03-30 |
Apostasy: Broken Off Branches & Tares: Do these verses (Matthew 13 and Paul's testimony) indicate that one can fall away and lose their faith? [Matthew 13:22, 1 Corinthians 9:27]. |
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2023-03-01 |
Calvinist View of "Eternal Security" or "Once Saved, Always Saved"): Could you clear-up the difference between what Calvinists believe about "eternal security" (once saved, always saved) and how it is often defined? |
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2023-01-27 |
Husband Who Has Apostatized: How should I and my church proceed when my husband has left the Christian church and returned to the Bahai (Sufi) Faith-including teaching his faith to the children? [1 Peter 3]. |
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2023-01-23 |
Losing One's Salvation: Does the "sealing" of the Holy Spirit in Ephesians mean that one cannot leave Christ or lose their salvation? [Ephesians 4:30, 1 John 4:13, Luke 15:24, 1 Peter 2:5, John 15:7]. Day of Redemption: Is the "Day of Redemption" referring to the corporate body at the resurrection? [Romans 8:23]. |
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2023-01-11 |
Eternal Security (Once Saved, Always Saved): Can you explain why you think that we are not "eternally secure", as I disagree with you based on Ephesians about being sealed by the Holy Spirit. [Ephesians 1:13, 1 Timothy 4:1, John 15:6, Romans 11:22, Colossians 1:21-23, Hebrews 3:12, Galatians 5:4, Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 5:2]. Living Like the Devil: Should we not help those who "live like the devil" all week, but do know God, learn to live better? [1John 2:4, Matthew 7:21-23, 2 Corinthians 13:5, Acts 17:11]. |
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2022-12-30 |
Losing one's Salvation: How do you arbitrate a discussion about whether one can lose their salvation? Recommended topical lecture; "Content of the Gospel" series, lecture on "Eternal Security." [Hebrews 2:3, Romans 10:9, Revelation 2:10, John 15:6, Luke 15:24]. |
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2022-12-08 |
"Carnal" Christians: Would you clarify the meaning of "Carnal" Christians, and how it relates to salvation and losing one's faith? [I Corinthians 3:1, Romans 8:6-11]. Lost Loved Ones: How much should we be witnessing to or pressuring our loved ones who seems to have strayed from the faith? [Matthew 10:16, 1 John 2:4]. |
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2022-09-12 |
Losing One's Salvation: Could you comment on the believer's ability (or inability) to lose one's salvation? [Hebrews 10:26, Romans 8:31, John 6:37, James 3:2, I John 2:1, Romans 7:17, Romans 7:20, Jeremiah 31:33-34, Hebrews 10:26]. Sin & Repent Cycle: What about those who seem to fall away and into sin and then frequently swing back and forth? [I Timothy 4:1]. |
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2022-08-26 |
Atheist; Apostasy-Conversion to Another Religion is Compromise of Integrity: Atheist; What does it say about one's integrity if they were born in Hinduism and converted to Christianity? Isn't that compromising your committment? |
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2022-08-19 |
Apostasy: Why do some people get saved and persevere and some fall away and apostasize? |
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2022-08-18 |
New Creation & Lost Faith: How does the question of salvation and the potential of falling away align with becoming a "new creation" when saved? [Ephesians 2, 2 Peter 2:15, I Corinthians 10, Ephesians 1:5:7, Ephesians 2:6]. |
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2022-08-18 |
The Apostle Peter: What are your thoughts about sequence of events surrounding Peter's conversion and denial, and then his later return to Christ? [Matthew 16:17, John 21:15-17]. |
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2022-08-17 |
Eternal Security (Once Saved, Always Saved): It seems that the Bible indicates that people can lose their salvation. What do you think? {Romans 5:2, Ephesians 2:8-9, Matthew 24:13, Revelation 2:10]. |
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2022-08-02 |
Satan & Apostasy: What do you think of my response to someone who had abandoned the faith when I answered why God created Satan? |
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2022-03-11 |
Eternal Security: Do these verses in Romans impact the idea that one can lose their salvation? [Romans 8:1-34, John 15, I Timothy 4:1, Galatians 5:4]. Lamb's Book of Life: What about losing one's salvation if your name is in the Lamb's Book of Life? [Revelation 12:11]. |
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2022-02-18 |
Why Am I Here?: How would you suggest approaching an adult child who is questioning "Why am I here?" and "What is the purpose of Life?" Facts Over Feelings: Does there not seem to be many are looking for feelings rather than truth to substantiate their idea of faith. |
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2021-12-14 |
Losing Faith: Is faith something we can lose? [I Timothy 4:1. 2 Corinthians 13:5]. Forgiveness for Leaving One's Spouse: Can you be forgiven if you leave your spouse? |
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2021-10-13 |
Why Not Abandon Faith and Pursue One's Own Happiness: How should a young person respond to contemporay culture's encouragement to abandon one's faith and pursue happiness? Pursuing God Over Earthly Pleasure: How does one convince others that pursuing God is more fulfilling than earthly pleasures? [Luke 9:23, Psalm 16]. Challenges for the Young Today: What do you think this younger generation is facing that is greater than ever before? |
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2021-07-13 |
Seeing God in Nature: How can I see God in Nature? (Same caller as previous call.) |
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2021-07-13 |
Doubting My Faith: If I have serious doubts about my faith, should I bother praying? [James 1:6-7]. Bible Reading to Connect to God: Is simply reading the Bible a way to connect to God? Reading Recommendations for One Losing Faith: What books of C.S. Lewis should I read? Recommended: "Mere Christianity" and others by John Lennox, Has Science Buried God", "Gunning for God." |
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2021-06-22 |
Perseverance of the Saints (Eternal Security): I disagree with you in that I can't imagine ever walking away from the Lord, if one is ever really saved? [Revelation 2:10, I Timothy 4:1, 2 Timothy 4:10, Hebrews 6:4]. Apostates Cannot Return to God: Can you return to Jesus if you have fallen away based on Hebrews 6? [Hebrews 6:4, Luke 19:27, Matthew 19:26, James 5:19, Romans 11:22, John 15:6, Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-20, Luke 8:4-15, I Peter 1:5, Hebrews 3:1, Hebrews 3:12]. |
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2021-05-04 |
No Longer a Believer: One of my friends is no longer a Christian, and says Jesus is not the Messiah because He did not fulfill the prophecies, and If God hated blood sacrifice, then why did He sacrifice His Son? [John 10:24]. |
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2021-01-07 |
Saved without Knowing Christ: Could you help me with the concept of those that don't know Jesus may still be saved through Christ, as C.S. Lewis proposes in "Mere Christianity". [John 14:6, I Corinthians 4:5, I Corinthians 14:25]. |
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2020-11-04 |
Minister's Doubt when He Doesn't Hear From God: What would you say to someone who is in ministry, who is struggling with their faith, to the point of disbelieving, because he is not hearing from God? [Isaiah 50:10, Job 13:15]. |
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2020-10-08 |
Work Out You Own Salvation: What does it mean to "work out own salvation with fear and trembling"? [Phil 2:12-13]. The Just Shall Live by Faith: What does it mean to "the just shall live by faith" as it says in Hebrews 10? [Hebrews 10:38, Habbakuk 2:4, Galatians 5, Matthew 23:23]. Working Out your Own Salvation in Fear & Trembling: What does it mean to work our your faith in fear & trembling? [Philippians 2:12-13] |
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2020-10-02 |
Caller Sharing Her Experience: Caller begins to share her experience becoming a Christian for the benefit of a doubting previous caller.[John 12:29]. |
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2020-10-02 |
Suffering Guilt, Temptation, and Failure to Follow Christ in Reality: Could you help me understand the concept of "dying to myself & Christ living in me" when I don't really do or obey as I should. [Galatians 2:20]. |
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2020-10-02 |
Samaritan Pentateuch & Evidence for Faith: Caller suggest Haley's handbook for information about the Samaritan's Pentateuch and responds to previous caller who is doubting his faith. |
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2020-10-02 |
Evidence that Christianity is Not True: Is it not evidence that Christianity is not true since there are those that wish to feel something from the Holy Spirit and they don't? [James 1:7 Matthew 8:26]. Losing Faith: How can one continue to believe in something that they don't see evidence of? The Resurrection isn't a Historical Fact, it's a Supernatural claim: Caller says that the resurrection isn't a historical fact, and doesn't it require more evidence to claim the supernatural? |
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2020-09-04 |
God's Sovereignty Defined: What does it mean to you to say that God is sovereign? Fallen Away-Once Partaken of Heavenly Gift: Does God's sovereignty relate to the verse in Hebrews about one who has received the heavenly gift, but has fallen away not being able to return? [Hebrew 6:4]. |
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2020-09-02 |
The Beast and an Unbeliever's Doubts: A non-believer comments on his view of the possible meaning of the beast being the internet . He also comments how the predictions of Jesus' return damaged his view. [Revelation 13]. |
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2020-08-19 |
Eternal Security or Lost Faith: How do you reconcile the promise of eternal life in scripture to your view that one can lose that faith? [John 5:24, Genesis 3:23, Revelation 22:3, John 3:36, John 6:38, Galatians 5:6]. |
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2020-07-27 |
Encouraging Those With Failing Faith & Marriages: Could you recommend some verses to encourage those withdrawing from the faith while their marriages are failing? |
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2020-07-01 |
Damage from My Pastor Father-Losing Faith: How do I handle the brokenness of my pastor father who has also damaged my faith? |
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2020-06-22 |
Evidence of God for the Unbeliever: How can we convince others of God's existence, if we can't do it intellectually, and if the Holy Spirit isn't in them? [I Corinthians 12:3, Romans 11:22, Hebrews 3:2-12, I Timothy 4:1, 2 Corinthians 13:5]. |
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2020-06-19 |
Hyper-Grace: Would you describe Hyper-Grace? [Romans 10:9, Titus 1:16, John 1:12]. Calminian: What is a Calminian? Steve Gregg - an Arminian Are you, Steve Gregg, an Arminian? And would you define Arminianism: |
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2020-03-09 |
Ex-Mormon's Testimony: Mike extends gratitude to Steve for helping to lead him out of Mormonism, while maintaining strong faith in Christ, instead of becoming an atheist, agnostic, or embracing other errors of the faith. |
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2019-10-17 |
Eternal Security & Faith: Concerning "eternal security" - do these verses in I Peter 1:3-5 indicate that it is God who keeps us in Him, rather than us and our faith doing it? Is the inheritance now or in the future? [I Peter 1:3-5, 2 Peter 1:10, Romans 5:2, 11:16,22, Ephesians 2:8-9, I Timothy 4:1, 2 Corinthians 13:5, Matthew 25:31, Luke 8]. |
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2019-08-02 |
Emanuel Swedenborg: Emanuel Swedenborg, and others, have claimed that they had a special connection to the spiritual realm. What do you think about reported experiences like these? Deconstruction of Faith: What do you think about the newer term for losing one's faith, called "Deconstruction of Faith"? |
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2019-02-25 |
Rape & losing Faith: What should a person say to a someone who says she is a Christian who was sexually assaulted, but is now losing her faith? |
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2019-02-14 |
Losing Zeal: I've lost my faith, and I want to know how to regain it. |
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2018-09-19 |
Losing Faith: Caller feels like he's lost his faith, finding it hard to go to church or read the Bible, looking for encouragement & motivation |
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2018-08-29 |
Losing Faith & Health: I'm suffering in pain & losing my faith, are we not to be given health? |
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2018-08-17 |
John the Baptist's Faith: Was John the Baptist's having a crisis of faith when he was wondering if Jesus was the Messiah? [Luke 7:18-23] |
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2018-07-31 |
Losing your Faith: Just repent, start obeying Jesus again, if you find yourself start falling away. Acapella Music: Caller thinks it's Church History that the church didn't use musical instruments for the first few centuries, but it was just for singing & making melody in their hearts. |
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2018-07-23 |
Eternal Security: Once saved, always saved, glorified & sanctified in God |
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2018-07-16 |
Remembering the Bad Stuff in this Life: Caller doesn't think that we'll remember all the bad stuff anymore on the other side of glory, including lost loved ones. [Isaiah 65:16-18, Revelation 21:4] Estranged Children from the Lord: Children that are not following the Lord, caller will be praying for a previous caller who's son has departed the faith. |
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2018-07-11 |
Losing Faith: Even if you do walk away from God, you could still being pursued by God/ |
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2018-02-05 |
Falling Away: Caller struggling with the idea of falling away. [Hebrews 10:25, 6:4-6] |
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2017-10-12 |
Unified by the Holy Spirit: I'm also, like your previous discussion having doubts about Christianity, wondering if Christians really have the Holy Spirit, why is there so much division, why so much hypocrisy? |
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2017-10-12 |
Doubting the more I read the Bible: I'm actually having more doubts about God the more I read the Bible, not less, so what do you recommend that I should I do? |
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2016-11-22 |
Lukewarm, spewing them out of His Mouth: Does that mean loss of Salvation? [Revelation 3:16] |
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2016-10-27 |
Struggling with Faith: Does Steve ever struggle with his faith? People being tested differently: People are tested in ways others would never have to be tested & that if they were tested that way, might not be Christians. Like for example, the people in the Holocaust who were sent to the gas chambers just for being Jews. |
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2016-07-08 |
Having Faith: Where does faith come from? Why does Jesus ask them why they have such little faith when they did have faith? [Matthew 17:20] |
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2016-07-06 |
Leaving Faith to find JW Faith: My former sister in law left catholic faith & some Jehovah's Witesses came to her door & now all of a sudden she has found faith again. |
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2015-07-10 |
The Falling Away: Frank Schaeffer discouraging Christians from their faith, homosexuality happening, apostasy in the seminaries, all kinds of weird stuff happening. [2 Thessalonians 2:3] |
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2015-06-29 |
Losing Their Salvation: Parents getting divorced, or God not healing people, can make people lose their salvation. |
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2015-01-30 |
Faith in America: Caller thinks has a theory on why so many people are having trouble with their faith in America & thinks he has the remedy for it. |
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2015-01-30 |
Overcome with Doubt: Sometimes I have doubts about God really existing, Jesus existing. How do I overcome that? |
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2015-01-28 |
Eternal Security: What about verses in John that seem to endorse eternal security? [John 10:28, 6:37] |
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2015-01-23 |
Turning away from Righteousness: Caller thinks these verses in Ezekiel seems to be saying that those who were once righteous & turn away, their righteousness will no longer be remembered. [Ezekiel 3:20, Ezekiel 18:24] |
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2015-01-20 |
Loss of Salvation: Can a person come back to faith after they have apostatized? (Hebrews 6:4-6] |
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2015-01-20 |
Once Saved Always Saved refuted: You can lose your salvation...in contrast to a previous call in the show. [Proverbs 3:1-7] |
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2015-01-20 |
Eternal Security: Jesus' sheep follow Him, He gives them eternal life, they shall never perish, is very clear to the caller. [John 10:27-28] (argument for once saved, always saved.) |
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2015-01-20 |
Apostasy (vs Eternal Security): Caller has a friend who at one point really loved Jesus with her whole heart, mind & soul, but has completely turned against Christianity. |
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2015-01-19 |
Eternal Security: Caller has been listening to Vernon McGee about "Falling Away" & would like Steve's thoughts. [Hebrews 6:4-6] |
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2014-04-16 |
Son has Fallen Away: My son, who seemed very spiritual when he was young, seems to be throwing it out, going in the opposite direction. I want to turn him back to the Lord. |
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2014-02-10 |
Dealing with Evolutionists (followup): People are often very lonely & divulge their story, even if they are evolutionists or atheists, that being the last thing on their mind, they just want a listening ear, & you then have the perfect opportunity to talk to them about your faith, because ultimately it's all God's doing anyway. [1 Peter 3:15] Dealing with Dry Spells: How do you deal with "dry spells" that you encounter in your Christian walk, not feeling close to God sometimes? [Isaiah 50:10-11] |
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2014-02-05 |
Being able to Speak in Tongues: If the caller could still speak in tongues even though he fell away from Christianity would that prove God gives the gifts no matter what, "w/ out repentance"? [Romans 11:29] |
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2014-02-04 |
Falling Away: How many times can you Fall Away & still be able to come back? [Hebrews 6:4-6, Hebrews 10:26] |
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2013-05-24 |
Eternal Security (Once Saved, Always Saved): Can one lose your salvation...or if you do, then were you ever really saved? [Hebrews 3:14, Hebrews 3:6, Matthew 7:21-23, John 15:6]. Losing One's Salvation: What causes one to lose their faith? [1 Peter 1:5, Ephesians 2:8, John 17:3, Job 13:15, Romans 5:2, James 3:2, 1 John 2:1]. |
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2013-05-07 |
Apostasy vs Sin Separation Us from God: Could you explain the verse "no one can pluck us out of His hand", but also scripture that says that sin separates us from Him and we are no longer His children?" [John 10:29, I John 1:9, Isaiah 53:6]. |