The accusation of a work's salvation?
It has been taught or suggested that one either believes in once saved always saved or must believe in a work's salvation. Such an inference could not be further from the truth!
True Salvation Assurance
We can know we are presently saved because we are believing on Jesus. Love and general obedience (or hatred and general disobedience) to God are the checkpoints for this as cited by the Apostle John in his first epistle.
He'll Never Forsake Me?
One of the most common arguments the eternal security embracers use is, "I know I am eternally secure because God has promised that He will never leave me and never forsake me." This is quoted from Heb. 13:5b which is taken from the Old Testament reference of Deut. 31:6,8.
Nothing Can Separate Us?
"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" (Rom. 8:38,39).
No One Can Snatch Them (Jn. 10:28)
Almost every book I've read through which tries to prove eternal security places heavy emphasis on Jn. 10:28. For many, this is the foundational proof text for this teaching. But does this verse really teach once saved always saved?
The possession of eternal life
One of the most commonly presented arguments given in defense of the teaching of "once saved always saved" goes like this: "When one gets saved, he receives eternal life. If that life could be lost, it wouldn't be eternal! Therefore, once a person is saved, he is always saved." This argument has both truth and error mixed into it. Certainly, at the point of salvation, one receives eternal life, but does this necessitate or guarantee the possession of that life eternally?
We Can "Know" the Children of the Devil
"Then Saul, who was also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked straight at Elymas and said, 'You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord?' "
Perseverance of the Saints by John Wesley
John Wesley had a foundation in Greek, Hebrew and Latin, preached approximately 40,000 sermons and traveled 225,000 miles, mostly on horseback. The number of works he wrote, translated or edited exceeds 200.
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