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Originally Posted by bearbear
You know scripture addresses this directly:
2 Peter 2:20-22 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
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You are assuming too much here.
Some of God's children never even came to know "
the way of righteousness," when they happened to believe that God forgave their sins for believing in the death of Jesus.
And you are right -- many nasty things may befall them -- but the Savior has assured us that
they will not perish.
BearBear, perhaps you should read some verses about God's loving deliverance by faith, instead of just verses about the responsibilities placed upon the children of God ...
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As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." -- John 3