K C Sunbeam

                                        Mr. Lee, my goal is to help bring as many to salvation as possible and encourage them to maintain their Christian Walk. Perhaps you claim likewise.  Now the conditions of salvation (maintaining God's Grace) throughout Christian history, no more/less :  The Holy Spirit's prompting belief in the Trinitarian God and Faith that Jesus was God incarnate, atoned for everyone's sins, and resurrected to conquer death as perfect Savior. Repentance, confession/baptism into Christ, and always living faithfully there-after.  But you add a condition: We must see the Bible as a perfect God-authored book and/or not believing such is lack of faith. Those who cannot accept that yet would happily accept the other terms are turned away. That is because they are taught it is an all or nothing package. So, people like you are digging chasms in the road to...

                                     Knowing whether or not you can lose your soul after having been saved should be of top importance.  Ideally, this should be settled by Scripture. Now an elderly church leader relayed that when he was young, him and his grandmother took opposite sides on this issue. His grandmother compiled a list of scriptures supporting her stance and he compiled a list supporting his. Nothing ever changed. I did likewise, and others claimed to see absolutely nothing from it.  Also, I was convinced that their use of select scriptures completely distorted the texts.  So, to avoid wasting time and energy, I exclude it here.  First, since both sides claim it is crystal clear that their position is right and the other wrong, one side has to be very dishonest.  And oftentimes, both sides cannot agree to disagree, rightfully so.  So, this excludes a...