Once Saved Always Saved?
Can One Who Has Escaped The Pollutions Of The World Through The Knowledge Of The Lord & Saviour Jesus, Later Get Entangled In It? None who has thoroughly and holistically studied the subject of salvation in scripture, would carelessly or flippantly assert once saved always saved. In the second epistle of Peter the word escape or escaped(apopheugō) is used thrice in a sense that denotes salvation. 1.) 2nd Peter 1:4 "through which he has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having ESCAPED the corruption that is in the world through lust." 2.) 2nd Peter 2:18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean ESCAPED from them who live in error. 3.) 2nd Peter 2:20 For if after they have ESCAPED the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled the...