Matching Once saved always saved against Torah & The Prophets FIRST

When Paul was preaching, he was approached by the Berean people. These people were very noble, and they judged everything by the Torah & The Prophets. Acts 17,"Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so."

This is what we must do. The doctrine of OSAS is no different. Briefly, let us see how this doctrine stacks up against Torah & The Prophets...

One of the tenents of OSAS is that we have eternal salvation, and we cannot possibly give it up. Let us see what Yehwah has to say about this.... First, we must take into account "freewill." Man has the free will to either continue in obedience, or discontinue in it.

Let us first start off in Genesis, where it all starts. Genesis 2:9,"And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."

You have:

1) Tree of life
2) Tree of the knowledge of Good or bad

These are the choices that Adam and Eve have. The doctrine of OSAS does not have room for choices, being that, according to this doctrine, saved folk will always go to the tree of life without free will to disobey by going to the good and bad tree.

Yehwah brings the choices into effect by saying this... Genesis 2:16-17,"And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Yehwah states that they could eat of any tree, except the tree of the knowledge of good or evil. If OSAS was actually true, then we would expect it to be decreed from the beginning, right?

As we can see from the mouth of our Father, we have choice to either obey by eating from the tree of life, or disobey by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and bad.

So, free has started in the first book of the bible, from the mouth of Yehwah. Let us go to Dueteronomy and see what He says in His beautiful Torah.

What I am about to show you is similar to what Yehwah gave Adam & Eve in th garden.. a choice to obey, or not to obey. Obedience brings blessings and life, and disobedience brings bad and death.

Duet 30:15-20,"See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you today, by loving the Lord your God, by walking in his ways, and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his rules, then you shall live and multiply, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today, that you shall surely perish. You shall not live long in the land that you are going over the Jordan to enter and possess. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

Yehwah has set before us "life and good(Obedience) & death and evil(Disobedience). OSAS clearly disregards disobedience.

Now, I know I said im going to be brief, but I am now finish my brief due diligence from Torah that OSAS does not exist. Now, its time to see what the Prophets have to say.. Preferably, Ezekiel..

Ezekiel really talks about people turning away from the living God, and dying in their sins. Many people say that we cannot give up our salvation. The Prophets prove them wrong.

Ezekiel 3:20,"Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, but his blood I will require at your hand."

His righteous deeds will not be remembered, and he will die in his sin. What happens when a person dies in their sins? I am sure that most of you on here already knows that. Yeshuah said whoever does not believe in Him, the wrath of Yehwah remains on them. This is a one way ticket to the lake of fire.

Ezekiel 18:24,"But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die."

If a righteous man turns from the living God, and transgress the Torah, then he will not live, and he will forfeit his salvation. What do you think happened to Saul? The holy spirit left him. Most Christians say that cannot happened... but it did!

Let us go to what Yeshuah has said concerning free will and choice to either abide in Him and live, or be cut off and die forever. John 15:6,"If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned."

Yeshuah also says that we must abide in His teachings to truly be His disciples. John 8:31-32,"So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Hebrews 6:4-6,"For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt."

It is impossible to come back to repentance once a person is gone, and made the decision to never come back. Even a geninuely saved person could walk away, because of free will, and never come back, and thus giving up their salvation.

Let us endure... Matt 24:13,"But the one who endures to the end will be saved."

Shalom Aleichem

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