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Originally Posted by Aquila
No. However, are we to believe that one was "unsaved" until they came to a greater or correct understanding of a given teaching of Scripture?
Our knowledge and understanding grows with time, study, and contemplation.
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Aquila, you're looking at it wrong. It's not that they are unsaved until they are given a teaching of scripture. If they were living all the truth that they knew they would be saved based off that, but when they are presented with new truth, and if they reject it, what they did before would be in vain, and whatever they did thereafter would be in vain as well. But if they accept the new truth, they would be saved.
It's the same as with the example of Apostle Paul. That while he was out the preaching for 14+ years, doing the work of God, but he was in error in a sense because he didn't have the right hand of fellowship with Peter. But he wasn't wrong in a sense because it wasn't revealed to him.
But when it was revealed to him, he said that all that he did before, and thereafter would have been in vain if he didn't obey and follow what was revealed to him.
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