Its like that old Catholic/Protestant argument--can you lose your salvation, or is it once saved always saved? Protestants with the OSAS belief point out (rightly) that none of us can ever do enough to earn salvation--it is a gift from God. We point out that if your faith isn't manifested in your life, it doesn't really exist, and that unless you are saying that at some point Christians lose their free will, it doesn't make sense to say that we can't choose to leave God and live a life antithetical to His will, and we accept that having that choice may mean we make it--and suffer the consequences.
There is a stream of thought that looks at Christianity as a series of rules--many of which for most of us revolve around carnal issues as most people don't have major problems avoiding murdering their neighbors or stealing from them--don't do this or you will go to Hell (and if it is something you struggle with and I don't it is a lot easier to put it in the mortal sin category) . There is another stream that looks at what you do do--the "be nice" folks or social justice warriors who point out that Jesus told us to take care of people, and not just people who were just like us. Both streams have some truth, and yet both are incomplete.
Its like that old Catholic/Protestant argument--can you lose your salvation, or is it once saved always saved? Protestants with the OSAS belief point out (rightly) that none of us can ever do enough to earn salvation--it is a gift from God. We point out that if your faith isn't manifested in your life, it doesn't really exist, and that unless you are saying that at some point Christians lose their free will, it doesn't make sense to say that we can't choose to leave God and live a life antithetical to His will, and we accept that having that choice may mean we make it--and suffer the consequences.
There is a stream of thought that looks at Christianity as a series of rules--many of which for most of us revolve around carnal issues as most people don't have major problems avoiding murdering their neighbors or stealing from them--don't do this or you will go to Hell (and if it is something you struggle with and I don't it is a lot easier to put it in the mortal sin category) . There is another stream that looks at what you do do--the "be nice" folks or social justice warriors who point out that Jesus told us to take care of people, and not just people who were just like us. Both streams have some truth, and yet both are incomplete.