Can you lose your faith? ( Original title read loose instead of lose in error. My bad.)

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Do you see how, on one hand, what appears troubling is in another sense the assurance of the Lord's word(s)?

How that observing what the Lord has spoken as coming to pass "in the last days" must build you up in the faith and confidence of Him who spoke it...but also...how...as your "own" building up is taking place it encourages and reproves others as ordained of God?

Amen, on to the building up, beloved.

It's the relational component that cannot be lost, that is the blessing of the grace and promise of Christ.
Its another subject but the flesh wars against the spirit and spirit against the flesh. Flesh also wars against our righteous identity, making us believe we are not who He says, by condemnation and lies.
Perhaps the time we take to esteem such lies as dung is the same esteem we can have that Providence could speak, live and affirm His gift thru us.
Perhaps.
If we falsely believe God has made no change within - that could be the measure of how powerless we are in faith and fruit bearing. And note the gift of these, neither are our responsibility. The finisher of our faith being more than capable. Yet sadly our religious pride will have this shelved for the lesser works of self sufficiency.

Yet the fruit of dependence on this One true life and spirit, is love, joy, peace ...
Against all 9 there is not a thing in the way.

Except our moment in the flesh, or two. Or more ... should we have forgotten our purification.

 

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Some Points of Departure for views of injustice and God.

a) The world is unjust because of the fall. ( There is a God and some called people ( believers) are super angry at Him. They would treat God's people with suspect and the same injustice they see which comes from God. Some sit and pout on their faith.)

b) The world is unjust and if there was a God he could not condone injustice so there is no God. The God people are just not evolved. Despair is relieved by the belief that life on earth is a fatality due to the random combines of atoms-chemicals--astronomical forces etc.

In both cases the common belief is that the world (life) is unjust. For one group the spiritual life is in part and cause of this injustice. For the other the spiritual life offers remedy though they might pout and revolt from time to time.