My name may say new newbie, but I am not, you guys are missing a key word to jesus words john 10:27 "my sheep hear my voice" The one who continues on consistently hears his voice, This is no hard matter, how about the parable of the sower they recieve word with joy and then the cares of this world, they fall away. meaning they were saved as we can't recieve the word without the spirit, then they fell away or paul when he says he can be disqualified. How hard is that. If jesus said he constantly hears our voice, then this would be a hard matter. think abou it. beside this once saved always saved doctorine is false security, being a backslider I know its not god who forsakes us, we forsake him as knowing backsliding is very dangerous, for my own conscience sake, this is no thing to take lightly, To know freedom and turn your back on it for a 10 month period the guilt is enormous and one thing I also felt to for a little while I was trying to make it up by works, this would be easy to do for a backslider to. all these things are hard for our conscience and condemning ourselves. If I were to do it again, I am 100% sure I would be in a place where I can't come back. To know your going to heaven with jesus for eternity, to turn your back on that. The greatest gift in the history of the world. What human being can get over that. for our own conscience sake once again.
