Lewis Brackett (14 Sep 2025)
"Once saved IS always saved Romans 8:38/9 /// 10:9:13"

John, Donna D & All ...  Excerpt from Got Questions.org:
(a) Romans 8:30 declares, "And those He predestined,(((in Gods
foreknowledge, NOT Calvinism!!!))) He also called; those He called, He
also justified; those He justified, He also glorified." This verse
tells us that from the moment God chooses us, it is as if we are
glorified in His presence in heaven. There is nothing that can prevent
a believer from one day being glorified because God has already
purposed it in heaven. Once a person is justified, his salvation is
guaranteed—he is as secure as if he is already glorified in heaven.

(b) Paul asks two crucial questions in Romans 8:33-34 "Who will bring
any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who
was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding
for us." Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? No one will,
because Christ is our advocate. Who will condemn us? No one will,
because Christ, the One who died for us, is the one who condemns. We
have both the advocate and judge as our Savior.

(c) Believers are born again (regenerated) when they believe (John
3:3; Titus 3:5). For a Christian to lose his salvation, he would have
to be un-regenerated. The Bible gives no evidence that the new birth
can be taken away.

(d) The Holy Spirit indwells all believers (John 14:17; Romans 8:9)
and baptizes all believers into the Body of Christ (1 Corinthians
12:13). For a believer to become unsaved, he would have to be
"un-indwelt" and detached from the Body of Christ.

(e) John 3:15 states that whoever believes in Jesus Christ will "have
eternal life." If you believe in Christ today and have eternal life,
but lose it tomorrow, then it was never "eternal" at all. Hence, if
you lose your salvation, the promises of eternal life in the Bible
would be in error.

(f) In a conclusive argument, Scripture says, "For I am convinced that
neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present
nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything
else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38–39). Remember the same
God who saved you is the same God who will keep you. Once we are
saved, we are always saved. Our salvation is most definitely eternally
secure!

So, NO, none of the Ten Virgins can be the Church!
Maranatha, Lewis B