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| | ::Perhaps the Word of the Lord Himself will persuade you, as it finally persuaded me, that the Baptist doctrine of [[Eternal security (salvation)|eternal assurance]] is a dangerously [[Presumption|presumptuous]] error (''especially when I'' also ''found out that it was founded by those who disobeyed those who were over them in the Lord'' Heb. 13:17, ''and went out from the church they had belonged to'' 1 John 2:18-19, ''and taught a doctrine different from the one they had originally received'' Gal. 1:6-9): | | ::Perhaps the Word of the Lord Himself will persuade you, as it finally persuaded me, that the Baptist doctrine of [[Eternal security (salvation)|eternal assurance]] is a dangerously [[Presumption|presumptuous]] error (''especially when I'' also ''found out that it was founded by those who disobeyed those who were over them in the Lord'' Heb. 13:17, ''and went out from the church they had belonged to'' 1 John 2:18-19, ''and taught a doctrine different from the one they had originally received'' Gal. 1:6-9): |
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| − | ::::[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+10%3A12&version=KJV 1 Corinthians 10:12] "'''Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.'''" | + | ::::[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+10%3A12&version=KJV 1 Corinthians 10:12] "'''Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.'''" |
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| | ::::[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+3%3A17&version=KJV 2 Peter 3:17] "'''beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.'''" | | ::::[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+3%3A17&version=KJV 2 Peter 3:17] "'''beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.'''" |
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| | ::::"'''Not that I had already attained this or am already perfect'''; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brethren, '''I do not consider that I have made it my own'''; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the mark for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are "perfect" be thus minded; and if in anything you are otherwise minded, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained." [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+3%3A12-16&version=NKJV Philippians 3:12-16].<br>(See [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/philippians/3-13.htm multiple commentaries on Philippians 3:13].) | | ::::"'''Not that I had already attained this or am already perfect'''; but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brethren, '''I do not consider that I have made it my own'''; but one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the mark for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are "perfect" be thus minded; and if in anything you are otherwise minded, God will reveal that also to you. Only let us hold true to what we have attained." [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+3%3A12-16&version=NKJV Philippians 3:12-16].<br>(See [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/philippians/3-13.htm multiple commentaries on Philippians 3:13].) |
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| − | ::::"Do you not know that in a race all the runners contend, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every man striving for mastery exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable crown. Therefore, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air; but I control my body and subdue it, '''lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.'''" [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A24-27&version=NKJV 1 Corinthians 9:24-27].<br>(See [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/1_corinthians/9-27.htm multiple commentaries on 1 Corinthians 9:27].) | + | ::::"Do you not know that in a race all the runners contend, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every man striving for mastery exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable crown. Therefore, I do not run aimlessly, I do not box as one beating the air; but I control my body and subdue it, '''lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.'''" [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A24-27&version=NKJV 1&nsbp;Corinthians 9:24-27].<br>(See [http://biblehub.com/commentaries/1_corinthians/9-27.htm multiple commentaries on 1 Corinthians 9:27].) |
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| | ::--[[User:Dataclarifier|Dataclarifier]] ([[User talk:Dataclarifier|talk]]) 00:05, 19 November 2019 (EST) | | ::--[[User:Dataclarifier|Dataclarifier]] ([[User talk:Dataclarifier|talk]]) 00:05, 19 November 2019 (EST) |