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Steve - The verses from the ESV are a perfect example of how the translations pervert the Word of God.
"and by which you are being saved" is wrong wrong wrong.
KJV - 1 Cor 15:2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
We are not being saved, we either are or we are not. According to Eph 1:13 when we trust in Christ we are sealed (saved). |
I am glad that this pastor teaches that a believer in Christ cannot lose his/her salvation but the Greek verb 'to save' in 1 Corinthians 15:2 is in the passive voice so the ESV is well within the boundaries of right translation when it renders it as 'being saved.'
However, as Bob V. pointed out, this does not deny the 'perseverance of the saints.' In fact one could argue that since salvation is an on-going process we cannot fall away since we are confident with Paul "that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ." (Philippians 1:6)
Canons of Dordrecht, 5.14
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And as it has pleased God, by the preaching of the gospel, to begin this work of grace in us, so He preserves, continues, and perfects it by the hearing and reading of His Word, by meditation thereon, and by the exhortations, threatenings, and promises thereof, and by the use of the sacraments.
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