"My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand."
Please note the word "follow" in verse 27. It is a CONTINUOUS TENSE in the Greek. Hence, the only ones promised the wonderful truths in verses 28 and 29 are the ones who CONTINUE to follow Jesus! No such promise, either here or anywhere else in the Bible, is reserved for one who doesn't CONTINUE to follow Jesus! Incredible spiritual harm has been done over the years by ignoring verse 27 and reading into verses 28 and 29 something that is not there. Verse 27 is an integral part of Jn. 10:28 for it describes who shall never perish, that is, Jesus' sheep who continue to follow Him. To omit verse 27 and/or the facts about the word "follow" is to distort the meaning of Scripture! Only God knows how many went to Hell over this kind of distortion!
What a shock this fact of grammar regarding verse 27 must be to many. The disturbing truth is, there aren't any irrefutable arguments based on Scripture that teach OSAS. All the alleged "proof" texts for this teaching are no real "proof" texts at all!
arguments and proof texts of the OSAS proponents.
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