Good Works that insult the Cross.

[Jethro Bodine]

Yes, you are saved if you believe.....as to "hold fast", is to believe, is to "exercise faith", in the message you are hearing, as "faith cometh by hearing".
This is explained in the parable of Jesus where he refers to a message as "seed", and the ground as the "heart".
So, Paul is casting the seed of the Gospel, (word i preached to to you), and some "held fast", ..that is this seed took root in their hearts, by faith....(they believed) .whereas in the case of others, the seed didnt root, as it "fell on the stony-thorny ground".

But if sometime later I stop holding fast the word I didn't really believe to begin with.....or is it that I'm still saved?
Which is it. You have taught both options in this thread. This is what I'm challenging you to explain.

"2by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain." (1 Corinthians 15:2 NASB)

You're going to have to surrender one of your arguments because both can't be true at the same time. Which one is it going to be?