No one responded in a previous thread so here is a new one. I copied this from someone's blog... please explain how you can have eternal security, is that the phrase? These verses scare me! I know its about what He did on the cross and Grace, but what do these verses mean?
Let's take a look at
Revelation 3:5
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
What happens if someone doesn't overcome? What will happen to his name in the book of life? Apparently, it will be blotted out. So, if a name that was in the book of life can be blotted out … what does that tell you?
Now see
Hebrews 10:38,
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
And
1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
So, apparently one can draw back and depart from the faith. Does this mean they were never saved to begin with? Negative. It means that they LOST what they HAD. They departed.
What does depart mean? It means to go away, to quit, leave, or separate, to withdraw, to forsake. So if one is departing from the faith as 1 Timothy says some will, it means they are forsaking it, which means they had to have it in the first place in order to forsake it.
The Bible says that nothing will enter heaven that defileth, maketh a lie, or worketh abomination (
Revelation 21:27). So if someone is trying to say that once you are a Christian you can never lose your salvation, you are sealed, hell-proof, fire-proof, and couldn't go to hell if you wanted to no matter what you ever do in the future, that makes one of two people a liar. It either makes the person spouting that off a liar, or it makes God a liar.
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; [
Titus 1:2]
A person has a free will before salvation, and none after? Foolish, and unbiblical logic!
Romans 11:21-23
For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
2 Peter 2:19-22
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Hebrews 10:26
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Hebrews 2:2-3
For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
2 Peter 3:16-18
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
If we could never depart from the faith, err, or turn away, why would we be warned to "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling"? "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?"
Just think. The angels were in Heaven and they didn't have eternal security! They sinned. God cannot allow sin in Heaven. Those who sin are called sinners. God will not allow sinners into Heaven."
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Krt
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