You can lose your salvation? - The Truth of the Bible

Eternal security is biblical?

When people come to know Christ as their Savior, are brought to one new relationship with God that guarantees his eternal security.

In Judah 24 is written:

To the one who can preserve you from every fall and make you appear blameless and with joy before his glory.

The power of God is able to keep the believer from falling. It is up to him, not to us, present ourselves before His glorious presence. Our eternal security is a result of God preserving us, not of us who keep our salvation.

The Lord Jesus Christ declared:

I give them eternal life and they will never perish and no one will snatch them from my hand. My Father who gave them to me is greater than all; and no one can snatch them from the hand of the Father” (Giovanni 10:28-29b).

Both Jesus and the Father hold us tight in their hand. Who can ever separate us from the grasp of both the Father and the Son?

Ephesians 4:30 tells us who the believers are “sealed for the day of redemption”. If believers did not have eternal security, the seal could not really be for the day of redemption, but only for that of sins, of apostasy or unbelief. Giovanni 3:15-16 it tells us that whoever believes in Jesus Christ will have “eternal life”. If a person were promised eternal life, but then this was taken away from her, for a start it wouldn't be “eternal”. If eternal security weren't true, the promises of eternal life in the Bible would be bogus.

The most powerful argument in favor of eternal security is Romans 8:38-39:

In fact I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, né principati, nor things present, born future, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

Our eternal security is based on God's love for those He has redeemed. Our eternal security was acquired by Christ, promised by the Father and sealed by the Holy Spirit.

Eternal security gives the license’ to sin?

The most frequent objection to the doctrine of eternal security is that it would promote, presumably, the idea that Christians can live in whatever way they want and stay safe. Although that is “technically” vero, this is not the”essence” of eternal security. A person who genuinely accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior “can” live a sinful life, but not “will want” to do it. We must make a distinction between how a Christian should live and what must be done to receive salvation.

The Bible is abundantly clear that salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone (Giovanni 3:16; Ephesians 2:8-9; Giovanni 14:6). One is saved by faith, by faith alone. The moment you truly believe in Jesus Christ, one is saved and is safe in that salvation. Salvation is not earned by faith to be, then, maintained by the works. The apostle Paul addresses this topic in Galati 3:3: “You are so foolish? After starting with the Spirit, you now want to achieve perfection with the flesh?”. If we are saved by faith, our salvation is also maintained and assured through faith. We cannot earn our own salvation. Therefore, we cannot even earn the maintenance of our salvation. It is God who keeps it (Judah 24). It is the hand of God that holds us tightly in its hand (Giovanni 10:28-29). It is from the love of God that nothing can separate us (Romans 8:38-39).

Any denial of eternal security is, in its essence, believe that we must maintain our own salvation by our good works. This is completely antithetical to salvation by grace. We are saved through the merits of Christ, not ours (Romans 4:3-8). Claiming that we must obey God's Word or live holy to keep our salvation is tantamount to saying that Jesus' death was not enough to pay the penalty for our sins. Jesus' death was absolutely sufficient to forgive all our sins: passed, present and future, before and after salvation (Romans 5:8; 1 Corinthians 15:3; 2 Corinthians 5:21).

therefore, after saying all this, it means that a Christian can live any way he wants and stay safe? This is basically a hypothetical question, because the Bible makes it clear that a true Christian will not live “whatever way you want”. Christians are new creatures (2 Corinthians 5:17). Christians show the fruit of the Spirit (Galati 5:22-23), not the works of the flesh (Galati 5:19-21). 1 Giovanni 3:6-9 it clearly states that a genuine Christian will not continually live in sin. Responding to the accusation that grace promotes sin, the apostle Paul affirmed: “What shall we say then? Perhaps we will remain in sin so that grace may abound? Certainly not! We who died to sin, how we would still live in it?” (Romans 6:1-2).

Eternal security does not give the “license” to sin. Rather, it is the certainty of knowing that God's love is guaranteed for those who trust in Christ. Understanding and knowing God's incredible gift of salvation leads to the opposite of giving the “license” to sin. Knowing the price that Jesus paid for us, how could one continue to live a life of sin (Romans 6:15-23)? Understanding God's unconditional and guaranteed love for those who believe, how could one take that love and throw it back in God's face? Anyone who does this proves not that eternal security has given him a license to sin, rather, that he has not truly experienced salvation through Jesus Christ: “Whoever remains in him does not persist in sinning; whoever persists in sinning has not seen it, nor known” (1 Giovanni 3:6)