lightninboy said:
thelaqachisnext,
Since you are neither Arminian nor Calvinist nor Catholic, do you believe it is possible for one to lose his salvation?
Did Judas Iscariot lose his salvation?
-nor protestant
Of course he did! -but he had not yet been regenerated in Spirit, for Christ had not risen.
Judas' name was "written in heaven" [from the foundation of the world] and written there along with all who were to ever be born "in Adam", who were to come forth as the multiplied seed of Adam, and as such were chosen for redemption in Christ [In His New Man name, as Adam is irreversibly dead in spirit], from the foundation of the world; and before Jesus rose from the dead and gave His promised "New Man" Spirit of regeneration to His disciples, Judas' name was written in the Book of Life, from which it got blotted out when He denied the name of the LORD by his betrayel of Him.
Demons -those disembodied foul evil spirits, the offspring of the fallen angels and daughters of Adam- were not written in the Book of Life, with Adam, and cannot be redeemed, and specifically will not, then, rise from the dead, as all born in Adam will rise from the dead in their own bodies -some to everlasting life and some to everlasting damnation.
Only those whose names were not written in the Book of Life written from the foundation of the world are not redeemable and cannot be redeemed; they are the 'dead' who will not rise, but who will be cast into the lake of fire to be tormented forever at His coming to reign on His throne of glory [Which Enoch reports and the demons have long ago read, and they asked Jesus if He was come to torment them before the [appointed] time, and asked Him to send them into the pigs instead of into the Abyss [as reported in 1 Enoch will be their destiny at the coming of the Messiah to reign on earth].
Mat 8:29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to
torment us before the time? =the appointed season
And in Luke, we read that they requested not to be cast into the "Abyss" -the place of torment described in 1 Enoch, for the demons and fallen angels and for all who take the devils' part, with them, against God.
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Luk 8:31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the
abyss.
abyss; abussos 1) bottomless 2) unbounded
3) the abyss a) the pit
c) of Orcus, a very deep gulf or chasm in the lowest parts of the earth used as the common receptacle of the dead and especially as the abode of demons
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The disciples were not to rejoice that the demons were subject to them in Jesus' name [in His authourity], but to rejoice that their names were written in the Book of Life "in heaven".
So, yes, Judas lost his "salvation" which was promised to every seed born in Adam, who, as seed, "'had" the proclamation of the deliverance to come, while yet in the loins of Adam [Genesis 3:15], as surely as Levi paid tithes while yet "seed" in Abraham's loins -Hebrews 7:9 "And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham".
So, to sum up: all seed multiplied in Adam, as Adamkind, were called to be sons of God in the New Man, from the beginning, because Adam was made in the image of God -and He came to get His own back," for the Glory". But though all in Adam are written in the Book of Life, not all will come to the Light that lights every Adam that comes into the world, and by that seeking of Him, come to the knowledge of the Son of God:
and those who do not seek Him who first seeks them, or who do come to Him but deny His name [the unforgivable sin] get their names blotted out of the Book of Life by their own choices made with their own will while they have their own being intact -while they live their alloted time on earth, as seed of Adam.
Luk 10:20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather
rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
Peter quoted from Psalm 69 and 109 about Judas, in Acts 1, and if you go check the context, his name was to be blotted out of the Book of Life -along with those Pharisees who committed blasphemy against the Holy Spirit willfully, by having Jesus put to death, in full knowledge that Jesus was the promised Messiah, the Son of Man/Son of God spoken of in 1 Enoch, who was to come on His throne of glory,when the wicked will all be removed from the earth and His Peace will reign for the Last Day of this present earth.
Acts 1:20; [Peter speaking]
"For it is written in the Book of Psalms:
'Let his dwelling place be desolate,
And let no one live in it';* [Psalms 69:25]
'Let* another take his *office.' [Psalm 109:8]
and Psalm 69 says specifically about those whom Peter says Judas was one of;
Psa 69:28 "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous".
And Peter said;
Psa 109:8 Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office.
Acts 1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the *disciples (altogether the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said, 16 "Men and brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled,
which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus; 17 for he was numbered with us and obtained a part in this ministry."
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-and Jesus quoted 1 Enoch, applying a phrase from there to Judas;
"It had been good for them if they had not been born.".
Mar 14:21 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed!
good were it for that man if he had never been born.
http://www.studylight.org/isb/bible...omans%208&ot=bhs&nt=na&new=1&nb=ro&ng=8&ncc=8
The Son of man goeth (5719) as it is written (5769) of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed (5743) ! it had been (5713)
good for that man if he had not been born (5681) .
http://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/enoch.htm
from 1 Enoch Chapter 38
1 The first Parable.
When the congregation of the righteous shall appear,
And sinners shall be judged for their sins,
And shall be driven from the face of the earth:
2 And when the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the righteous,
Whose elect works hang upon the Lord of Spirits,
And light shall appear to the righteous and the elect who dwell on the earth,
Where then will be the dwelling of the sinners,
And where the resting-place of those who have denied the Lord of Spirits?
It had been good for them if they had not been born.