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To insist that we absolutely cannot lose our salvation after we receive Jesus into our heart is pure carelessness.[/B] This is a two-way relationship, even though we can't save ourselves, and we can do nothing to keep ourselves saved (as far as works and religious duties). God does the saving, but we need to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. It isn't works, it's faith. When people lose faith and walk away from God (however improbable), I don't believe they are saved any more. They have chosen against God.
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Rom 8:35-39 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The person who has been truly saved, truly born-again can not lose their salvation. Those who have professed to be Christians then at some point in their life denied Christ, and says they are not saved anymore were
never saved to begin with.
These are those who have "believed in vain" 1 Cor 15:2. In the passage I just wrote, it says NOTHING can separate us from the love of Christ. A man does not go from abiding in Christ's love, be in communion with him, then come under the wrath of God. Because the wrath of God comes upon all unrighteousness - wicked men.
In addition, Phil 1:6 Says that
"he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." God doesn't start a good work of salvation in us and let it end.
In
Ez 36 God speaks of regeneration, this happens to every believer in Christ.
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And
I will put my spirit within you, and
cause you to walk in my statutes, and
ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
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I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.
Now, to
Jeremiah 32 when he speaks of the
New Covenant.
38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
40 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
42 For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
I don't think it gets any clearer than that. God puts his fear in every single true believers heart so that they
will not depart from him. Now that's black and white scripture.