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Originally Posted by Sunshine
These are big topics that takes years of study to map and understand. I am still in that process.
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That's my problem with this view is that it takes years of study of commentary outside of scripture. This view did not become popular in church history until John Darby and it's different enough to be another gospel. The rest of the church prior to this time including the early church fathers did not hold to a view that saying the sinner's prayer without repentance was enough for salvation. Faith and repentance were viewed as being intertwined. Turning away from sin and towards God in faith was viewed as being simultaneous as described in Acts 3 and elsewhere.
Acts 3:19 (NLT)
Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away.
Acts 3:26 (NLT)
When God raised up his servant, Jesus, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by turning each of you back from your sinful ways.
Luke 13:2-3 (NLT)
Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?” Jesus asked. “Is that why they suffered? Not at all! And you will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God.
The early Christians who were being persecuted by the Romans and eaten alive by wild animals in the coloseum believed that if they recanted their faith they would not make it to heaven and were given a lot of opportunity to do so. If they believed like John Darby taught many would have likely apostasized to save their own life under extreme pressure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqDV91AFPo
The faith that the apostles passed down to us is enough, we don't have to change or add to it
Jude 1:4
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.