So, would you accept that someone who evangelized, not because he cared about getting results, but only because of how good he thought he looked doing it, might not be saved at all, even though he believed in the Resurrection? This stuff is pretty explicit. Just saying "Lord, Lord" isn't enough.

That reminds me, that when I was with Dell (which has a LOT of tech support in India now), I would sometimes call over to one of those departments, and have someone obviously from India answer, but give an American sounding name. I'd hear a voice with a very thick accent answering, and saying something like "Hello, this is Fred." I was never sure what the deal with that was. I wanted to say something like "Your name is NOT Fred. Maybe Phred." I assume that the company asked them to introduce themselves by American names, for the comfort level of the customers, but I never really heard. It seems like you could offend your employees by asking them to do that. I wonder if they got to pick their own names, or if they were assigned names? I'd wondered, if Dell's overseas business picked up, if we might be asked to pick Indian names for ourselves when talking with those customers (If that had ever happened, and they'd let us pick names, I'd wanted to ask for Viswanathan).

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What verse did Petrosianic quote that makes you think that you can lose your salvation *after* you become truly saved??


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Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Christians should persist in the faith.

A few years back there was a 60 Minutes piece on the training of telephone techs in India. Part of the training was having the trainees select an American sounding name.