Amazing Gifts

The fact that apostasy exists in Christianity implies that not everyone who joins a church is saved. Indeed! If you can't lose your salvation and yet people fall away, then one must conclude that the church consists of both genuine believers and false believers. Paul, using the metaphor of dishware, spoke of the body of Christ this way:

2 Timothy 2:20, “But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.”

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