4:3 What is the book of life?
4:3 What is the book of life?
(cp Also Rev 3:5; 17:8; 20:11-15; 22:18-19). The book of life in these scriptures is also called thy book in Ex 32, Psa 56 and 139 (cp Ex 32:33; Psa 56:8; 139:15-16); also my book in Ex 32 (cp Ex 32:33); the book of the living in Psa 69 (cp Psa 69:28); the book in Dan 12 (cp Dan 12:1); the book of life of the lamb in Rev 13(cp Rev 13:8); and the lamb's book of life in Rev 21 (cp Rev 21:27).
These are all one and the same book in which, as Psa 139:15-16 teaches, God has written the name of every soul who ever lived. Reference is also made to names being in the book of life in Deut 9, Psa 109 and Lk 10 (cp Deut 9:13-14; Psa 109:13-14; Lk 10:20).
There is another clear teaching we learn from these scriptures also: Ex 32:32-33, Deut 9:13-14, Psa 69:28 and 109:13, Rev 3:5 and 20:15 all refute the teaching by some in the church that once saved means always saved.
These scriptures all teach that names can be, and have been, blotted out of the book of life - salvation is not an unforfeitable possession in this life (cp Pr 21:16; Eze 18:20, 24-26; 33:12-13, 18; Jn 15:5-6; He 6:4-8; 10:26-31; 2Pe 2:20-22).
These scriptures all prove that salvation is not an unforfeitable possession in this life. It only becomes an unforfeitable possession at the end of life if one is sowing to the spirit (cp Rev 22:11-12).