Do These Verses Contradict “Once Saved, Always Saved”?

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Do These Verses Contradict “Once Saved, Always Saved”?

March 7, 2022

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Questions about whether Revelation 2:1–7 and Colossians 1:21–23 can be reconciled with a belief in “once saved, always saved.”

* I’ve always believed “once saved, always saved,” but passages like Revelation 2:1–7 seem to say overwise. What am I missing?

* How does one reconcile Colossians 1:21-23a with the teaching of “once saved, always saved”?

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