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Yesterday I wrote a post in response to Steve's post, and this has been heavy on my mind......In no way do I want to mislead anyone, when I mentioned that I believe "once saved --always saved" --I did not mean that once a person thought they were saved that this allows them to go & raise all the hell they want to, and I said that somewhere Paul wrote something along the lines about being tested with fire, one may suffer loss but will be saved.....SOOOO!!! This morning I went to digging for info should I have mislead someone, which brings me to the point....one must read, mediate on, research and speak with God and allow the Holy Spirit to guide one's thinking. So, if I may explain where I came from and point one in that direction:

My thoughts came from 1 Corinthians 3: 1-17
We think of a church as a building, but look at the church as the Church of Jesus Christ, now bear with me a moment---The Church with Christ being the chief corner stone and others building upon this, we have leaders, Pastors & teachers, we also have members making up this body. If we look in 1st Peter 2 we see that Christ is the chief corner stone and we who come to Him are living stones building up this Spiritual House. I suppose, maybe, this is where my thinking comes from, then again another may well be on an entirely different page than me and that's OK. I can well see how one may look upon this subject of "once saved--always saved" from a different angle, If I may, after reading & doing a bit of cross reference work and talking it over with God....follow what the Holy Spirit teaches. If I may use our HillyBilly friend in Tenn., this would be Rick (Tenac) as a point of thought, here we have a man who was as hell bound as one could be, a life of destruction, who one night turned his life over to Christ and left drugs, alcohol and such behind, as I understand we have a man close to death's door and experienced the saving grace of God----bottom line, I just can not see Rick ever turning his back on Jesus. I was never addicted to dugs, alcohol etc, but I had a good-strong addiction sin, I was as well hell bound as ole Rick and I experienced God's saving Grace-----everything bad I had done was erased, it all in the blink of the eye was gone, I was forgiven.....Now the ole devil does not like this one bit and every day of my life I fall short and every day of my life I seek forgiveness----the ole devil knows those sins I so proudly cherished & walked in back years ago and today, everyday he offers me with temptations, if not physical-- temptations of the mind....I think we called lust--I think is the correct word...the wanting for. Now back to "once saved--always saved"----I believe it because of personal experience, I know how I was and I never want that life again, it was what many will call the good life----I found myself in the presence of God--the Father---Jesus--the Son -- and the Holy Spirit, an awesome experience and one that I believe will save me through all eternity-----