Tres Wright
June 2nd, 2009, 04:22 PM
I hope I'm mistaken on the website, and you weren't serious, because there is only false doctrine on that site. No clarification at all - only lies. :scratch
They are included on The Links Page under General on the main RR page.
Inclusion on the links page should not be misconstrued as RR condoning every single word expressed on any particular site. It's practically impossible to track everything that might be added or removed from a particular linked site, especially when there are so many links. This should clear things up for you, this is part of the "Doctrinal Beliefs Statement" for the RR BB:
Article VIII. THE EXTENT OF SALVATION
When an unregenerate person exercises that faith in Jesus Christ which is illustrated and described as such in the New Testament, he passes immediately out of spiritual death into spiritual life, and from the old creation into the new; being justified from all things, accepted before the Father according as Jesus Christ His Son is accepted, loved as Jesus Christ is loved, having his place and portion as linked to Him and one with Him forever. Though the saved one may have occasion to grow in the realization of his blessings and to know a fuller measure of divine power through the yielding of his life more fully to God, he is, as soon as he is saved, in possession of every spiritual blessing and absolutely complete in Jesus Christ, and is therefore in no way required by God to seek a so-called “second blessing,” or a “second work of grace” (John 5:24; 17:23; Acts 13:39; Rom. 5:1; 1 Cor. 3:21–23; Eph. 1:3; Col. 2:10; 1 John 4:17; 5:11–12).
Link:
http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=9
It should be noted that some scholars believe that OSAS is a NT development, that in the OT it was possible to lose one's salvation because Christ had not come yet. There are OT references to names being blotted out of the Book of Life:
Exodus 32:32-33
But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written."
The LORD replied to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.
Psalm 69:28
May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous.
The above passages may be why some people do not believe in the OSAS doctrine. However, Christ made it very clear that once we find salvation through Him, our fate is secured:
Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.
So once a person's name is in the Lamb's Book of Life, it is there for good. And if one's name is not written there, what then?
Revelation 13:8
All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.
Revelation 20:15
If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
This is a clearcut case, to say that OSAS is inaccurate and that we must maintain our salvation through works is to call Christ a liar!
Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.
They are included on The Links Page under General on the main RR page.
Inclusion on the links page should not be misconstrued as RR condoning every single word expressed on any particular site. It's practically impossible to track everything that might be added or removed from a particular linked site, especially when there are so many links. This should clear things up for you, this is part of the "Doctrinal Beliefs Statement" for the RR BB:
Article VIII. THE EXTENT OF SALVATION
When an unregenerate person exercises that faith in Jesus Christ which is illustrated and described as such in the New Testament, he passes immediately out of spiritual death into spiritual life, and from the old creation into the new; being justified from all things, accepted before the Father according as Jesus Christ His Son is accepted, loved as Jesus Christ is loved, having his place and portion as linked to Him and one with Him forever. Though the saved one may have occasion to grow in the realization of his blessings and to know a fuller measure of divine power through the yielding of his life more fully to God, he is, as soon as he is saved, in possession of every spiritual blessing and absolutely complete in Jesus Christ, and is therefore in no way required by God to seek a so-called “second blessing,” or a “second work of grace” (John 5:24; 17:23; Acts 13:39; Rom. 5:1; 1 Cor. 3:21–23; Eph. 1:3; Col. 2:10; 1 John 4:17; 5:11–12).
Link:
http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=9
It should be noted that some scholars believe that OSAS is a NT development, that in the OT it was possible to lose one's salvation because Christ had not come yet. There are OT references to names being blotted out of the Book of Life:
Exodus 32:32-33
But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written."
The LORD replied to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book.
Psalm 69:28
May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous.
The above passages may be why some people do not believe in the OSAS doctrine. However, Christ made it very clear that once we find salvation through Him, our fate is secured:
Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.
So once a person's name is in the Lamb's Book of Life, it is there for good. And if one's name is not written there, what then?
Revelation 13:8
All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world.
Revelation 20:15
If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
This is a clearcut case, to say that OSAS is inaccurate and that we must maintain our salvation through works is to call Christ a liar!
Ephesians 2:8-9
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.