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Friday, January 31, 2020

You Cannot Be Unborn

This is a response to Charles Stanley's answer about whether a person who was once saved and who is then living a life of sin can lose his/her salvation [video: "AskDr.Stanley; Can I Be Saved? Then Backslide And Lose My Salvation? (5Min dvd.wmv)"; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5HhFqUFFxU ].1 He argues that a person cannot be unborn to make his point that a person who was saved cannot be lost again (no longer be saved).

Argument: you cannot be "unborn" (again)

Anyone who is alive can die. If being saved means being brought to spiritual life (Ephesians 2:1-7; John 5:24; 1 John 3:14), then those who have experienced the new birth, which is the first resurrection, can die if they go back to sinning (Hebrews 6:4-6, Hebrew 10:26). That's because the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).

These were written to people who were born again so they knew the consequences of not walking in the Spirit:

Galatians 5:19-21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strife, jealousy, wrath, selfishness, divisions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 8:12-13
12 Therefore, brethren,* we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do put to death the deeds of the body, you shall live.

*brothers and sisters IN CHRIST