1 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. Romans 13:1-2 (NASB)
There are some who teach that our salvation is something of a crapshoot. Oh, they don’t ‘use words like crapshoot to describe their Soteriology….
But their insistence that a person’s salvation is a mere decision means that their approach to the Gospel is one of mood and emotional manipulation that can be resisted by a person and, therefore, results in nothing more than some emotional decisions amidst many equally emotional rejections. Is this God’s plan for building His Church?
The problem seems to be that those who operate like this ignore what the Bible says about the Fall, the curse, and the total spiritual inability of natural Man.