SAVED,
AS LONG AS YOU CONTINUE TO BELIEVE 1
The key word here is “continue.”
This reminds me of the story of the boy who, as long as he hung onto the
tail of the tiger would be safe, but as soon as he would let go he knew he’d be
eaten.
The New Testament (NT) does not say that
if you stray away from its god ― the Invisible
Man in the Sky ― that you can return by undoing your wrongs. The author
of Hebrews wrote:
"For it is impossible for
those who were once enlightened, and have tasted
of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have
tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they
shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance;
seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open
shame."
(Hebrews 6:4-6)
These
verses essentially say that a "believer"
in Jesus who stops believing, loses his NT salvation and that it is impossible
to repent again. This only goes to show that "the 'eternal life' offered by Jesus was only eternal as long as a
person believed in him. Evidently it was only temporary 'eternal life' that
Jesus had to offer."1
Don't
forget that Christians claim the New Testament is the "word of God unto
salvation." Many maintain that it is inerrant, infallible.
So, there you have it from the horses mouth (Christian horse that is) -- it is impossible, once you stop believing in Jesus..."to renew them again unto repentance."
Does
Christianity mean what it says; does it say what it means? Yes, because once
you deny Jesus, especially the Trinity, according to Hebrew 6, you
are no longer a Christian. Seems as if Christianity follows the mantra
screamed during the
"The way to
see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." -Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Footnote:
1. Based on Shmuel Golding; The
Light of Reason, volume 4, page 32