can you give me an example of something you might be at variance with?
Does everyone in the orthodox church agree on the doctrine of eternal security (or OSAS)?
This is a Calvinist teaching, and we have never had such doctrine.
This important question is whether or not it is biblical teaching?
Mopac, does God save or do we save ourselves? Is salvation monergistic or synergistic? Do we have a hand in saving ourselves (i.e., part of it depends on God and part on us)?
If God saves you and gives you eternal salvation will He not guard what He has given you against that day? Will He transform your heart and spirit?
Did Jesus not come to save His people from their sin?
Matthew 1:21
21 She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”
If He will save them then He is completely capable of doing so. It is Him doing the action of saving, not you. Thus, His death accomplished salvation for those He came to save or else it is possible that no one will be saved.
Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
The question becomes whether or not we have truly trusted in Him since He is able to save forever those who draw near to Him since He always lives to intercede for them. His sacrifice is enough to secure our salvation. Do you believe this?
Hebrews 9
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation; 12 and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
15 For this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that, since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. 16 For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it. 17 For a covenant is valid only when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives. 18 Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.
24 For Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25 nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own. 26 Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, 28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.
So His one offering is acceptable to God for sin for those who believe, truly believe in who He is and what He has done. Thus, we can't boast in what we do. We do not have a part in saving ourselves. He did it, not us.
Ephesians 2:8-10 (NASB)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
If it is by His grace and a gift from God then salvation is not a result of our work or merit in any way. It depends on another - Jesus Christ, and we can't boast in ourselves in any way. If we are His workmanship then again, it is God who is working our salvation in us.
Are you saying there are exceptions within the evangelical/protestant churches?
Sure, there are some who know God. Doesn't change the fact that they aren't with the Christian church. They have an incomplete faith.