OSAS? (Once Saved Always Saved)

Definition of Apostasy - "the abandonment or renunciation of a religious belief" 

We will know them by their fruit. There are 3 Categories of Apostates: 

Once Saved Now Lost

• Falling from grace (Galatians 5:4)

• Hebrews  6:24 & 1 John 2:19

Backslidden (1 Cor 3:1-2, 11-15)

• Peter denying Christ 3 times

Never saved:

• Their fruits seemed to us to be good, but God sees the root (Matthew 7:21) 

• Their fruit revealed their true root (1 John 2:19) 

Origins Of OSAS teaching

OSAS can easily be traced back to John Calvin (1509-1564) from the Synod of Dort under the description of the perseverance of the saints. But did you know that it, and other points of Calvinism, can be traced more than one thousand years earlier to Augustine of Hippo (354-430)?

This was the theme about which Augustine structured his thinking during the last half of his writing ministry. As he put it: “Whatsoever persons are through the riches of divine grace exempted from the original sentence of condemnation are undoubtedly brought to hear the Gospel, and when hearing they are caused to believe it, and are made likewise to endure to the end in the faith which works by love, and should they at any time go astray, they are recovered and set right again.” Here are Election and eternal security.

As a consequence Augustine wrote two treatises: the first was entitled On the Predestination of the Saints, and the second On the Gift of Perseverance. In the first, Augustine reaffirmed that Predestination is in no way based upon foreseen merit in the elect. All a man’s strivings in his own strength to achieve holiness of life apart from the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit are in vain, and Augustine explained why this is so. In the second treatise Augustine showed that the Perseverance of the Saints, by which he meant (in modern terminology) the eternal security of the believer, is not dependent upon the good works of the individual believer which would result from his conversion, but entirely upon the constancy and unchangeableness of God’s elective choice (italics his). Since Augustine this doctrine [the perseverance of the saints] has served as a theological framework within which theologians have wrestled with the question of whether and how one remains in salvation. Augustine introduced the idea of a donum perseverantiae: as a divine gift the perseverance of the saints in grace was certain. Calvin later championed the doctrine by affirming the perseverance of believers through the power and faithfulness of God. The Reformed confessions, in particular, the Canons of Dort, emphatically espoused the perseverance of the saints by denying that they could totally or finally fall away

Calvin was the systematizer of Reformation doctrine. His best known and most representative work is the Institutes of the Christian Religion. In this work and elsewhere, he refers to Augustine as “the holy father.” The person John Calvin calls “the holy father” and quotes “far more frequently than all the Greek and Latin fathers combined”[68] taught a plan of salvation that made regeneration dependent upon water baptism. That same person also taught Purgatory, promoted Mary worship and said only Catholics will inherit eternal life. Because of Augustine’s teachings, some could only give a hearty “Amen” to the following statement made by an OSAS proponent who tries to distinguish between the perseverance of the saints and eternal security, the latter of which he contends for:

Augustine was wrong on baptism. He was wrong on philosophy. He was wrong on the Church. He persecuted “heretics.” He was wrong on the “sacraments” and the nature of the Lord’s Supper. He was also mistaken on the Millennium, hermeneutics, the Resurrection, eternal security, and marriage: WHY WOULD ANYONE THINK HE WOULD BE RIGHT ON ELECTION AND PREDESTINATION?

One must wonder about John Calvin’s spirituality from all of this. Certainly Calvin knew of these Catholic teachings that Augustine embraced. How then could he so highly esteem him and his writings? Could it be that Calvin shut his eyes to Augustine’s false gospel because he liked the predestination teaching to which he held? No one will ever know for sure this side of the Judgment what the specific doctrinal attraction was for Calvin. But this we do know: the originator of OSAS taught a plan of salvation that would not bring salvation at all and John Calvin systemized and made popular this man’s teachings that appealed to him!

• Gnostics taught that those saved can’t lose their salvation. They taught that we can sin with our flesh but still be holy in our spirit. They taught dualism. It was actually Gnositc's 1 John is refuting when he rejects the idea that those who are born of God sin, and says not to be deceived because "he who PRACTICES righteousness is righteous."

• The early church identified this as heresy that was introduced by the Gnostic's who constantly tried to influence Christianity. Beginning with the apostle John, they refuted the lie that Christians continue in sin, and refuted the stoics who taught that we should just sin "less" via moderation.

• Augustine called that the perseverance of the saints, today's denominations call it once saved always saved. He called that imputed righteousness, that even when we sin we are righteous because of grace, he taught that people can be righteous even if they sin, contrary to the church before him.

Two Positions Within OSAS

From all these definitions, one should have a clear understanding of what OSAS teaching is. Before we move on to the origin of OSAS, another vital point needs to be made. There are two positions within OSAS theology.

The first position, hereafter referred to as the extreme position, is embraced by teachers such as Charles Stanley and Charles Ryrie. Their position declares that after a moment of saving faith such a person might even become an unbeliever, but will still remain saved. (i.e. unconditional eternal security)

The other position, hereafter referred to as the moderate position, is disseminated by John MacArthur and others who especially subscribe to the Westminster Confession. The moderate position of OSAS states that a true, saving faith will last forever. In other words, a true believer cannot become an unbeliever. The moderate position also tends to deny the concept of carnal Christians (conditional eternal security) which is embraced by the extreme position of OSAS. 

Common objections, questions & misconceptions

1. Q: They (fallen brethren) were never saved in the first place? OR  Salvation is not mine, if It were up to me and my own goodness, I would surely lose my salvation? (Strawman grace by faith vs works)

   • For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. (2Pe 2:20)

     • Peter clearly said it was “by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” that those people escaped the corruption of the world. This same word know is found in 2 Pet. 1:3,4 and is clearly used for the saved!

     • Moreover, it is only the blood of Christ that can break the slavery to sin, thereby enabling one to escape the corruption of the world. See Rev. 1:5. We are freed from Satan’s power (Acts 26:18) when we come into contact with Jesus’ cleansing blood. This is also when our hearts are purified by faith (Acts 15:9 cf. 10:43-48). After the point of initial salvation we can get contaminated (Jam. 1:27), defiled (Heb. 12:15), etc. by sin. By applying 1 Jn. 1:9 the Christian can get spiritually repurified.

     • To say the people mentioned in 2 Pet. 2:20 were never saved is to say contacting the blood of Christ and coming to know the Lord Jesus isn’t the only way to be freed from the slavery to sin. Regretfully, this downplaying of Jesus’ blood is the result of those who refuse to accept the conditional security apparent in that passage as well as many others.

   • For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off. And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again. For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree. (Romans 11:21-24)

     • No matter how excellent a beginning I have made, if I do not continue to press forward I shall be lost. Yes, lost, and not merely miss some particular crown or millennial honors as the deluded dispensationalists teach. It is persevere or perish: it is final perseverance or perish eternally — there is no other alternative. Rom. 11:22 makes that unmistakably clear; “Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them that fell (the unbelieving Jews) severity: but toward thee (saved Gentiles, v. 11), goodness, IF thou continue in His goodness; otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.” To continue in God’s goodness is the opposite of returning to our badness. The evidence that we are the recipients of God’s goodness is that we continue in the faith and obedience of the Gospel. The end cannot be reached apart from the appointed means

   • Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. (Heb 3:12)

   • Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: (Romans 11:20)

   •  This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck: Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme. (1Ti 1:18-20)

   • We are saved by grace through faith (Eph 2:8-9), but we need to repent, turn from our sin and turn to Christ

   • Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; ( 1 Tim 4:1 ) 

   • Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. (Php 2:12-13)

   • "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers." (Luk 22:31-32)

2. Q: I Never Knew You (Matthew 7:23) OR They were not of us (1 John 2:19) OR they were never saved in the first place? 

• • In reality you can't be severed from something that you were never a part of. These people were genuine believers.

    • • Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: (Romans 11:20)

      • Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.  (Joh 15:4-7)

  • They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. (1 John 2:19) 

Context: talking about false teachers and prophets, i.e. antichrists in the verse above: Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. (1 John 2:18)  

3. Q: The eternal life can't be lost because it's eternal (John 10:27-28) OR When one gets saved, he receives eternal life. If that life could be lost, it wouldn't be eternal?

1. • Q: As Hank Hanegraaff wrote: And remember, eternal life comes to the believer through faith in Christ is not life for two weeks, two months, or even two years; eternal life is everlasting life. It begins at the moment of conversion and stretches on through the eons of time.

     • This type of argument has both truth and error mixed into it. Certainly, at the point of salvation, one receives eternal life because of faith in Christ, but that does not necessitate or guarantee the possession of that life eternally! The crux of this argument really centers around the possession of eternal life, and not if eternal life is anything other than eternal. While eternal life will always be eternal, the possession of such is something altogether different. This is easily proven by noting that eternal life was eternal even before a saved person ever possessed it. Does it not follow, then, that eternal life will still remain eternal, even if one doesn't continue to possess it? Moreover, as long as a Christian has spiritual life, it is everlasting, but according to Scripture he can still die spiritually (Rom. 8:13) and miss the kingdom of God (Gal. 5:19-21)!

   • Examples of those who had eternal life and lost it: 

     • Adam & Eve - Adam is one who had no sinful heredity behind him and no corruption within him, instated in the Divine favor, placed in a garden of delights and given dominion over all terrestial [sic] creatures. Yet he abode not in that fair estate, but fell from grace, disobeyed his Maker, and brought upon himself spiritual death

     • Lucifer 

   • And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died? (1Cor 8:11)

     • If we are not careful with our freedoms in Christ with weak brothers (believers) - we might cause them to fall and potentially perish (i.e. lose their salvation).

   • In context: sheep who hear Christ's voice  before - jewish people who were already believers like Nathaniel, Zacharias, Simeon, Nicodemus, Joseph of Arimathea etc; It applies more broadly, to all God's elect.  

4. Q: Those who truly get saved will faithfully endure to the end and never follow another.

• • This was not true for King Saul, King Solomon, the Apostle Judas Iscariot, the unnamed disciples of Jn. 6:66, and certainly many others throughout the centuries! 

  • History has shown that many true Christians denied Christ during times of persecution.

5. Q: A child cannot become unborn, and the relationship of a father and a child cannot be ended. Once a son, always a son. Therefore, once we are saved we will always be saved? Or as Hal Lindsey wrote: When you're born into your earthly family, you may be a winner or a loser in your behavior, but you're still a member of that family. There's no way to be unborn just because you don't measure up to the standards of your family. It's just the same when you're born into God's family. You may be disciplined for wrong behavior, but you won't be disowned.

• This argument is based on natural fact, then applied to the spiritual, which doesn't always hold up as truth. (OSAS adherents frequently make this kind of mistake of arguing from the natural to the spiritual.) This type of error can be demonstrated by the following facts: Before we became Christians, we were all "children of the devil" (Acts 13:10; 1 Jn. 3:10) and "sons of the evil one" (Mt. 13:38). In other words, the devil was our spiritual father (Jn. 8:44). However, this spiritual father-child relationship changed at the point of salvation, according to Scripture! Aren't you glad that spiritual, father-child relationships can be ended?  We are sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus (Gal. 3:26), yet it is possible to stop believing (Lk. 8:13), have our faith destroyed (2 Tim. 2:18) and for our faith to become shipwrecked (1 Tim. 1:19,20). Also, angels and Adam are called "son(s) of God" (Job 1:6; Lk. 3:38), yet some angels and Adam lost their eternal life, and we can too as sons of God. We can't become unborn, as you put it, but we can die spiritually (Lk. 15:24,32; Rom. 8:13; Jam. 1:14,15; etc.)! We must endure to the end to be saved (Mt. 10:22). Finally, Lindsey wrote you won't be disowned, but Jesus said if we disown him, he will in turn disown us (Mt. 10:33). Whom should we believe?

6. He who began the good work in you will complete it? 

• • Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: (Php 1:6)

  • Context: is this verse talking about salvation? Why not vocation? Purpose as a church? Calling that they've got according to the spreading of the Gospel? 

    • Paul had confidence in them as they were givers, and they had the passion to support Paul spread the Gospel.  

7. If God knew that someone would lose their salvation, why wouldn’t He end their life before that happened so that they would go to Heaven?

• • This is similar to the question: "If God knew people were going to go to hell, whey did He create them in the first place?" The simple answer is because God thought it the wisest thing to do. In the end we will understand exactly why God did all things He did, but now we 'see through a glass dimly.' However, it needs to be understood that people are ultimately accountable for their own choices and have no right or standing to blame God for their damnation. If they cling to the promises of God, they will be saved. This is something they can do and should do. It's as simple as that.

8. Are there degrees of sin?

• And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. 17 All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death. (1 John 5:15-17)

9. Can you be born again, again?

1. • To ask if we can be born again, again is a rhetorical question that has confused some. To be born again is the same as getting saved or believing in Jesus Christ (Jn. 3:3-18). But if one would stop believing in Jesus, then later start believing again, he would indeed get saved again, as Rom. 11:23 declares. Remember also the Prodigal who became alive again after he repented (Lk. 15:24,32). 

10. No conditions on maintaining our salvation?

• Salvation conditions:

  • Romans 11:22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 BY WHICH ALSO YOU ARE SAVED, 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗜 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂—unless you believed in vain.

  • Hebrews 3:14 For we have become partakers of Christ 𝗶𝗳 𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗱,

  • Galatians 6:8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. 9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap 𝗶𝗳 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁.

  • Colossians 1:21 And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled 22 in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight— 23 𝗶𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵, 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister.

  • 1 Thessalonians 3:8 For now we live, 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗱.

  • 1 Timothy 2:15 Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing 𝗶𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵, 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹.

  • 1 John 2:3 Now by this we know that we know Him, 𝗶𝗳 𝘄𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

11. Can a true Christian become an apostate?

Arthur W. Pink wrote:

Even when writing to a minister of the Gospel, his own “son in the faith,” Paul hesitated not to exhort him, “Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine; continue in them,” adding “for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself (from apostasy) and them that hear thee” (1 Tim. 4:6) (italics his).[8]

Apostasy is not reached at a single bound, but is the final culmination of an evil process, and it is against those things which have a tendency unto apostasy against which the saints are repeatedly and most solemnly warned.[9]

Zane C. Hodges wrote: The writer of Hebrews obviously believes that a true Christian can apostatize.[11]

Tony Evans said: The carnal Christian is characterized by rejection of the Christian faith. If you stay on the road to carnality long enough, you will apostatize.[13]

12. Did Solomon repent of his idolatry before his death?

Zane C. Hodges wrote:

But what about born again Christians who have done these things? To be specific, what about wise Solomon who ended his life with defection from his God and with idolatry (1 Kings 11:1-10)![14]

Arthur W. Pink wrote:

With others, it is our own conviction that before the end of his earthly pilgrimage Solomon was made to repent deeply of his waywardness and wickedness.[15]

13. Is it believed or believes that saves?

Adrian Rogers wrote: He who commits himself to the Son of God is the one who is saved. Have you done this?

Notice it doesn’t say, he who has believed; it says He who believes. It is always present tense. . . .

They say, “Yes, I’m saved. I remember walking down the aisle when I was nine years old, giving my hand to my pastor and my heart to Jesus Christ. Now, I may not be living for God right now, I’ll admit. But I know I’m saved because I remember what I did when I was a nine-year-old boy. I remember believing on Jesus Christ.”

The Bible never uses such an experience as proof of salvation. It never points back to some time when you believed on Jesus Christ

It is also important to point out that the Apostle John always emphasizes the present tense character of true saving faith, i.e. faith is never viewed as a decision made in the past and now over with or completed.

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (1Cor 1:18)

14. Is it possible for a Christian to altogether forsake the path of obedience yet remain saved? 

• We detest the doctrine that a man who has once believed in Jesus will be saved even if he altogether forsook the path of obedience. We deny that such a turning aside is possible to the true believer, and therefore the idea imputed to us is clearly an invention of the adversary (Charles Spurgeon) 

15. Conditional vs Unconditional security

• But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, IF WE HOLD the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; (Hebrews 3:13-14)

•  Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. (Php 3:12)

• If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister; (Col 1:23)

• Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (Rev 2:10)

• Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: (2 Peter 1:10)

• Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. (Php 2:16)

• Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. (Jud 1:21)

• If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  (1Jn 1:9)

•  Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. (1Co 15:1-2)

•  Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.  (2Ti 2:10-13)

The Lord said His mercy and forgiveness is only given to those that turn from and stop committing their sins (PROVERBS 28:13, EZEKIEL 18:21, 2 CHRONICLES 7:14). The opposite of his mercy is his judgment that shall come upon the unbelievers and those lukewarm professing Christians whom haven’t confessed and forsaked their sins but rather continued living in complete disobedience to Him and His word (2 THESSALONIANS 1:7-9, ISAIAH 13:6-9, COLOSSIANS 3:6).

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and (TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN I WILL HEAR FROM HEAVEN, AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN) and heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14) 

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso (CONFESSETH) and (FORSAKETH THEM) shall have mercy (Proverbs 28:13) 

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of (SINS THAT ARE PAST), through the forbearance of God (Romans 3:25) 

(WHOSOEVER ABIDETH IN HIM SINNETH NOT): whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. (HE THAT COMMITTETH SIN IS OF THE DEVIL); for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. (WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD DOTH NOT COMMIT SIN); for his seed remaineth in him: and (HE CANNOT SIN, BECAUSE HE IS BORN OF GOD) (1 John 3:6-9) 

Now we know that (GOD HEARETH NOT SINNERS): but if any man be a worshipper of God, and (DOETH HIS WILL), him he heareth (John 9:31) (ALSO READ MATTHEW 7:21-23)

Jesus said, “(IF YOUR HAND CAUSES YOU TO SIN, CUT IT OFF). It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched where ‘Their worm does not die And the fire is not quenched.’ And (IF YOUR FOOT CAUSES YOU TO SIN, CUT IT OFF). It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched where ‘Their worm does not die, And the fire is not quenched.’ And (IF YOUR EYE CAUSES YOU TO SIN, PLUCK IT OUT). It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire where ‘Their worm does not die, And the fire is not quenched" (Mark 9:43-48) 

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, (WHOSOEVER COMMITTETH SIN IS THE SERVANT OF SIN) (John 8:34) 

She said, “No man, Lord.” And Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn thee; (GO AND SIN NO MORE) (John 8:11) 

Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: (SIN NO MORE), lest a worse thing come unto thee (John 5:14) 

Awake to righteousness, and (SIN NOT); for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame (1 Corinthians 15:34) 

Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, (LET EVERY ONE THAT NAMETH THE NAME OF CHRIST DEPART FROM INIQUITY)” [SIN] (2 Timothy 2:19) 

Likewise reckon ye also (YOURSELVES TO BE DEAD INDEED UNTO SIN), but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:11) 

We know that (WHOSOEVER IS BORN OF GOD SINNETH NOT); but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not (1 John 5:18) 

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso (CONFESSETH) and (FORSAKETH THEM) shall have mercy (Proverbs 28:13) 

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath (CEASED FROM SIN) (1 Peter 4:1)

Definition of CEASED: To put an end to; discontinue, to stop performing an activity or action; desist, to come to an end.

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 (Hebrews 10:26-27) 

But (HE THAT SINNETH AGAINST ME WRONGETH HIS OWN SOUL): all they that hate me love death (Proverbs 8:36) 

What shall we say then? (SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN, THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND?) God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? (Romans 6:1-2) 

(THE SOUL THAT SINNETH, IT SHALL DIE). The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him (Ezekiel 18:20) 

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; (WHETHER OF SIN UNTO DEATH), or of obedience unto righteousness? Romans 6:16

For (THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH); but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord (Romans 6:23)

Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and (SIN, WHEN IT IS FINISHED, BRINGETH FORTH DEATH) (James 1:15) 

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. (CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YE SINNERS; AND PURIFY YOUR HEARTS), ye double minded (James 4:8) 

DOUBLE-MINDED: is a self-proclaiming Christian believer who is constantly living in a state of compromise. Half of them tries to live for God [ELOHIM], while the other half lives for their sinful bad habit. A double-minded Christian is always being torn in two directions. They seek to have a relationship with Jesus Christ while simultaneously trying to live out their life with a particular sinful obsession. PARTIAL OBEDIENCE IS COMPLETE DISOBEDIENCE. This is also what the Bible refers to as being Lukewarm (REVELATION 3:16).

Whom we preach, (WARNING EVERY MAN) and teaching every man in all wisdom, (THAT WE MAY PRESENT EVERY MAN PERFECT IN CHRIST JESUS) (Colossians 1:28)

Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and (GIVE THEM WARNING FROM ME). When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to (WARN THE WICKED FROM HIS WICKED WAY, TO SAVE HIS LIFE); the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity [SIN]; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity [SIN], and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless if thou (WARN THE RIGHTEOUS MAN, THAT THE RIGHTEOUS SIN NOT), and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul (Ezekiel 3:17-21) 

Let him know, that (HE WHICH CONVERTETH THE SINNER FROM THE ERROR OF HIS WAY SHALL SAVE A SOUL FROM DEATH), and shall hide a multitude of sins (James 5:20) 

(BUT IF THE WICKED WILL TURN FROM ALL HIS SINS THAT HE HATH COMMITTED), and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, (HE SHALL NOT DIE) (Ezekiel 18:21) 

Howl ye; for (THE DAY OF THE LORD IS AT HAND); it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. Behold, (THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, CRUEL BOTH WITH WRATH AND FIERCE ANGER, TO LAY THE LAND DESOLATE: AND HE SHALL DESTROY THE SINNERS THEREOF OUT OF IT) (Isaiah 13:6-9) 

Early church fathers on OSAS:

Ponder This . . .

Cyrilla, the Arian Bishop of Carthage, was a furious persecutor and a determined enemy to those Christians who professed the faith in its purity. He persuaded the king that he could never prosper in his undertakings, or enjoy his kingdom in peace, while he suffered any of the orthodox Christians to practice their principles; and the monarch, believing the prediction, sent for several of the most eminent Christians. He at first attempted to draw them from their faith by flattery, and to bribe them by the promise of immediate worldly rewards; but they were firm and constant, declaring resolutely, “We acknowledge but one Lord and one faith; you may therefore do whatever you please with our bodies, for it is better that we should suffer a few temporary pains than to endure everlasting misery.” The king, being greatly exasperated at this remark, sent them to a dungeon, and ordered them to be put in irons. The keeper, however, suffered their friends to have access to them, by which they became daily more confirmed in their resolution of dying for the sake of their Redeemer.

The king hearing of the indulgence they received, was exceedingly angry, and ordered these Christians to be put on board a vessel filled with combustible materials, and set on fire. The names of those who suffered by this cruel expedient were Rusticus, Severus, Liberatus, Rogatus, Servus, Septimus, and Boniface.[70]

Obviously, those early Christians did not believe OSAS, for they knew it was yet possible for them to suffer everlasting misery which would be impossible otherwise.

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• Hyper-grace Cult 

• Saving Faith