Once Saved, Always Saved and Saved By Grace, Not Works

  Once Saved, Always Saved   and   Saved By Grace, Not Works

These 2 questions have raged on for almost 500 years.

We believe that all humans have sinned, and therefore deserve Hell as God's righteous and just punishment.

So that everybody can be saved and go to Heaven in spite of our sins, God came to Earth as Jesus Christ, and the righteous blood of Jesus dying on the cross is sufficient payment for everybody's sins.

To be eligible to receive this free gift of grace by Jesus, you must believe in Jesus, turn away from sin, and turn towards God.

If you try to earn favor with God by doing good deeds on Earth, God will see your so-called good deeds as "filthy rags", and a misguided attempt to bribe God acting as a holy and just Judge.

If you continue to have chronic, premeditated sin (also called iniquity in the Bible) in your life, this would be proof you do not truly love nor believe in Jesus Christ.  You are pretending to be Born Again for the sake of vanity (ie. hyper concern for what others think of you), or fraudulently claim to be Born Again as shallow virtue signaling to others.  You may fool a few humans for a short while, but you certainly won't fool God.  You will slink and slither along in this life for awhile, but when heavy persecution of Christians begins, you'll drop the fake Born Again facade like a hot potato and take the Mark of the Beast as a short term solution (blind to the long term consequences of Hell because you believe in neither Jesus nor the Bible).  Jesus calls this "seed sewn on rocky ground", that withers & dies when tough times arrive (see Matthew 13:1-23)  If you somehow escape the Mark of the Beast (a guaranteed trip to Hell), Jesus will ultimately reject you as a fake, a worker of iniquity, and throw you into Hell.

However, if you are truly Born Again, you will be meek, humble, and avoid both boasting and pride.  Your Born Again life as a True Christians will be a shining example to all others.  You will naturally produce many good works as an incidental by-product, but your Born Again attitude wouldn't dream of comparing these good works to the perfect life of Jesus, nor using these good works in any way to justify yourself, nor be self-righteous.

If your current life, or your current church, or your current Pastor, or your current Bible does not agree with what is written here, you have fallen in wih Satan's wolves, misled by Satan's lies.  Satan is misleading you so that you miss out on the free gift of salvation from Jesus Christ.  As Jesus says in Rev. 18:4:

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."

Here are the Bible quotations to help you see that light:

[Gal 3:10, 13, 24 KJV] 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed [is] every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. ... 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: ... 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

[Jas 2:10 KJV] 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

[1Pe 2:24 KJV] 24 Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

[Rom 3:19-20 KJV] 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. 20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

[Rom 3:23 KJV] 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

[Rom 10:3-4 KJV] 3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

[2Co 5:21 KJV] 21 For He [God] hath made Him [Jesus Christ] to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

[2Ti 4:2-4 KJV] 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

[Mat 26:41 KJV] 41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

[Luk 13:3 KJV] 3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.


[Jhn 14:15 KJV] 15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

[Rev 22:14 KJV] 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 

[Heb 8:10-12 KJV] 10 For this [is] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

[Mat 7:21 KJV] 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

[1Jo 2:3-6 KJV] 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

[Deu 6:5-9 KJV] 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

[Jos 1:8 KJV] 8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

[Mat 5:19 KJV] 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

[Mat 7:22-23 KJV] 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

[Deu 8:2 KJV] 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

[Jas 1:12 KJV] 12 Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 

[Luk 6:46 KJV] 46 And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

[Rev 3:19-22 KJV] 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. 21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. 22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

[Rom 3:23 KJV] 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

[Heb 12:14 KJV] 14 Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

[1Jo 3:6-10 KJV] 6 Whosoever abideth in Him [Jesus Christ], sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither known Him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as He is righteous. 8 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. 9 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. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

[1Jo 5:3-5 KJV] 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?