One of my questions for Free Grace people - and anyone else firmly in the "once saved, always saved" camp - is this: How LONG does a person need to experience "faith" in order to get their irrevocable ticket to heaven stamped?
As soon as you claim that faith instantly guarantees a person eternal life from that moment it is expressed, you are implying that faith can be genuinely salvific even if it proves to be a passing thing.
So what is the minimum amount of time a person would need to "believe in Jesus"?
A day? An hour? A minute?
Does it just need to be long enough to walk the aisle at church, kneel at the altar and have a deacon pray over you?
Why does the Apostle Paul talk about being "IN THE FAITH"?
2 Cor 13:5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
When we talk about salvation by faith alone, are we picturing "faith" as being possibly short-lived or necessarily continuous?
More importantly, how does Scripture envision saving faith?
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