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Jethro, I know you are really OSAS.
You just like to walk the fence so you can jam people on both sides.
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You just like to walk the fence so you can jam people on both sides.
Jethro Bodine
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For me, personally, in my walk with the Lord, the answer is probably, 'yes' (the OSAS part, lol).
But I lose my appetite for cookies and hugs when it's insisted that it's an either/or proposition for all believers as a whole, that we either all have the surety of salvation, or none of us have the surety of salvation as a matter of hard and fast doctrine established by God.
I figure, if you have faith, you have the surety of what faith solicits. If you don't have faith, or a weak faith, you don't have the surety of what faith solicits. The eternal security of salvation meaning to me that you have a faith that can endure. A not so secure salvation meaning you have a shaky faith that may, or may not, endure to the end.
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Jethro Bodine
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A big step of spiritual maturity for me many years ago was realizing not everybody thinks, and feels, and believes like I do. We tend to, by nature, think if I feel, or think, or believe a certain way, so does everybody else, or should be expected to like me. Hardly true.
It's quite liberating to realize it's just not that way. You live in peace when you accept this truth. And even more so when you realize the different things that other people think, and feel, and believe in, and to what extent, may be right, and YOU yourself may be wrong. That's how a person sleeps well at night and lives in peace.
It's also the key to learning. We all have to consider that other people may be right and we are the one that is wrong. If you want to be smart, you have to have that attitude.
It's quite liberating to realize it's just not that way. You live in peace when you accept this truth. And even more so when you realize the different things that other people think, and feel, and believe in, and to what extent, may be right, and YOU yourself may be wrong. That's how a person sleeps well at night and lives in peace.
It's also the key to learning. We all have to consider that other people may be right and we are the one that is wrong. If you want to be smart, you have to have that attitude.
