What Good Is the Easy-Believism Version of OSAS to Transform a Sodomite?

The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.   –Titus 2:11-12 (KJV)

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. –1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (NIV)

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen away, to be brought back to repentance. To their LOSS they are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. –Hebrews 6:4-6 (NIV)

If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. –Hebrews 10:26-31 (NIV)

HOLDING ON to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme. –1 Timothy 1:19-20 (NIV)

Only let not Christ be forsaken, so that THE LOSS OF SALVATION and of an eternal home would be feared.   –St. Cyprian




I’m pretty sure that these Wesleyan-holiness books have indexes of “once saved, always saved” / easy-believism proof texts; and then they attempt to refute them from an Arminian perspective. I would also recommend consulting John Wesley’s Notes Upon the New Testament and the Adam Clarke Commentary.

Robert Shank, Life in the Son. Bethany House Publishers, 1989. 380 pages.

Dan Corner, The Believer’s Conditional Security. Evangelical Outreach, 2000. 801 pages.

—. The Myth of Eternal Security. Evangelical Outreach, 2005. 230 pages.

—. The Gospel According to Charles Stanley. Evangelical Outreach, 1995. 42 pages.

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