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Old 03-01-2008, 04:27 PM
jerry
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The Bible does not teach you can lose your salvation - Jesus ONLY gives eternal life. What it does teach is that there is chastisement for the believer who walks in unrepentant sin. God will speak, spank, scourge, then separate by death the unrepentant believer (if they refuse to heed His previous chastising). The chastening by death is what is referred to by the phrase "he taketh away."

John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

He doesn't take their salvation away from them - He takes them away from this world.