Do Eternal Security
Proponents Really Believe
in Eternal Security?

Dan Corner

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A n interesting concept comes up when one ponders what the non-Calvinist eternal security proponents believe about babies dying. They believe all babies that die go to heaven. They primarily base that on 2 Sam. 12:23. [In contrast, Calvinists believe non-elect babies that die go to hell. In other words, they believe in infant damnation.]

For the non-Calvinist eternal security proponent, that same baby that would have gone to heaven if he died, when he gets older and sins, needs to be saved (or born again) because he is now on the road to hell. Hence, that saved person at baby age, later in life lost his salvation and needs to get it back or into hell’s fire he will be thrown.

With this in mind, the eternal security proponents don’t really believe in eternal security as they adamantly teach, but they have never come to realize this fact. Again, the once heaven-bound person becomes hell-bound and needs salvation, in their own theology.

A Second Area

A final thought: It is also a fact that many eternal security proponents show they reject eternal security by their opposition to people such as us, who oppose their teaching, when they say we are unsaved. We have often heard over the years that we are unsaved merely because we reject eternal security. Hence, they are contradicting their own belief system because if we ever once had a true moment of faith in Jesus and became Biblically saved, then we are still saved regardless what we later believe about various issues, including eternal security. They cannot logically say we are unsaved because we oppose eternal security, for their own theology won’t allow it.

That same concept can be carried over to those who convert over to Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism or Catholicism. The eternal security proponents cannot logically say the people in such groups are unsaved because of their present heretical beliefs, for if such ever had a true moment of faith in Jesus before becoming a Mormon, Catholic, Jehovah’s Witness, etc., then they are still saved. For them to say otherwise is to logically deny their own doctrine.

GOD BLESS YOU.

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