DID JUDE JUST LIKE TO HEAR HIMSELF WRITE? BY STEVE FINNELL
Is it possible to fall from God's grace? Calvinist doctrine proclaims that once you are saved you can never be lost. Jude sent a letter to the churches of Christ warning of ungodly men in their congregations and giving them examples of men and angels falling away and the punishment for unrepentant sin. Was he warning of a possibility of falling from grace or did Jude just like to hear himself write?
Jude 1:5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.
Why would Jude mention this if there was no chance of ever falling from grace? Did Jude just like to hear himself write?
Jude 1:6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for judgment of the great day,
Was Jude giving an inconsequential history lesson or a warning to the churches? Did Jude just like to hear himself write?
Jude 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of fire.
Why would Jude be pointing out the punishment of fire, if all Christians have eternal security. Did Jude just like to hear himself write?
It makes no sense that Jude would warn Christians about ungodly men in their churches; if all Christians are "once saved always saved." The actions of ungodly men would have been on no threat to eternally secure Christians. Why would Jude warn the churches of an impossibility? Did Jude just like to hear himself write?
(All Scripture quotes from: NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE)
Jude 1:5 Now I desire to remind you, though you know all things once for all, that the Lord, after saving a people out of the land of Egypt, subsequently destroyed those who did not believe.
Why would Jude mention this if there was no chance of ever falling from grace? Did Jude just like to hear himself write?
Jude 1:6 And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for judgment of the great day,
Was Jude giving an inconsequential history lesson or a warning to the churches? Did Jude just like to hear himself write?
Jude 1:7 just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of fire.
Why would Jude be pointing out the punishment of fire, if all Christians have eternal security. Did Jude just like to hear himself write?
It makes no sense that Jude would warn Christians about ungodly men in their churches; if all Christians are "once saved always saved." The actions of ungodly men would have been on no threat to eternally secure Christians. Why would Jude warn the churches of an impossibility? Did Jude just like to hear himself write?
(All Scripture quotes from: NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE)
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