Revelation 3:5 and OS/AS (1 views) Subscribe   
  From:  WORDLOVER (WordLover1)   11/26/2001 7:13 pm  
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He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. 
Rev. 3:5 
What is this book? 

A register was kept in ancient cities of their citizens: the names of the dead were of course erased. So those who have a name that they live and are dead (Rev 3:1), are blotted out of God's roll of the heavenly citizens and heirs of eternal life; not that in God's electing decree they ever were in His book of life. But, according to human conceptions, those who had a high name for piety would be supposed to be in it, and were, in respect to privileges, actually among those in the way of salvation; but these privileges, and the fact that they once might have been saved, shall be of no avail to them. 

In the sense of the "call," many are enrolled among the called to salvation, who shall not be found among the chosen at last. The pale of salvation is wider than that of election. Election is fixed. Salvation is open to all and is pending (humanly speaking) in the case of those mentioned here. But Rev. 20:15; Rev. 21:27, exhibit the book of the elect alone in the narrower sense, after the erasure of the others. 

So....here we are at a crucial dilemma for the Eternal Security people. Jesus says that he who overcomes will NOT have his name blotted out of the book of life. He goes onto say that He will confess our names before the Father! 

Well now...if our names CAN be blotted out, how would that happen? How does one's name get "blotted out" if we are supposedly once saved and for ever regardless of our sins committed after salvation? 

A simple question: 
How does one's name get blotted out of the book of the saved? 

 
  
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   From:  8320JOHN   11/27/2001 5:02 am  
To:  WORDLOVER (WordLover1)   (2 of 2)  
 
  277.2 in reply to 277.1  
 
One very thoughtful person offered the solution that there was indeed the Book of Life, no greater a Person than the Lord Jesus Himself so declared. So it must be, but how to solve the seeming problem of the Preservation of the Saints and the apparent possiblity of the erasure of one's name? He concluded that ALL the names of ALL the living have been recorded in the book of life, but only those names of the "overcomers" (election, saints, predestinated) were not erased, while the NON-overcomers (non elect, saints) were erased. Thus the apparent erasure of the called out elect, predestinated child of God was not a possibility at all. This he concluded from ALL the Scripture met the demands of the passage in Revelations and the other passages of Holy Writ. 
Peace and Blessings, 


Regards, 
John
 
  
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