If we could lose our salvation:
1. God would have to
de-adopt us – we could no longer call Him ‘Abba, Father’ - Romans 8:15;
Galatians 4:6
2. God would have to
take back the GIFT of grace through faith He has given us - Ephesians 2:8-10;
Romans 11:6
3. Christ would have to
divorce members of His Bride - Ephesians 5:22ff; Revelation 21:2,9
4. We would have to work
to keep our salvation, but salvation is based on Christ's work, not our own - Romans 9:11; Galatians 2:16; Philippians 2:13
5. God would be saying -
Christ's work wasn't good enough for you after all
6. We never would have
been good enough to be saved anyway - see Romans 3:12,23; Isaiah 64:6; Jeremiah
17:9
7. Why would Christ
bother preparing a place if anyone was going to lose their salvation? - John
14:3
8. Every Christian has
been bought with a price - so if we could lose our salvation, that would mean
that God would have to sell us back to the world after paying such a high
price? I think not! - 1 Corinthians
6:20; 7:23
9. God would have to
take away the Holy Spirit - the Comforter, our Helper - John 14:16; John 15:26
10. God would be
breaking His promises never to leave nor forsake His people and also the
promise - none shall snatch them from My hand - Joshua 1:5c/Hebrews 13:5; John
10:28,29
11. God would have to spiritually murder/kill those He had saved (brought to life) - Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:22; Ephesians 2:1,5; Colossians 2:13
12. God would have to bind us up again - Romans 6 (various verses)
13. He hasn't saved us to the uttermost and has stopped making intercession for us - Hebrews 7:25 (Hebrews is a fabulous book to see Christ in all His glorious work)
11. God would have to spiritually murder/kill those He had saved (brought to life) - Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 15:22; Ephesians 2:1,5; Colossians 2:13
12. God would have to bind us up again - Romans 6 (various verses)
13. He hasn't saved us to the uttermost and has stopped making intercession for us - Hebrews 7:25 (Hebrews is a fabulous book to see Christ in all His glorious work)
14. The glorious work begun in us wouldn't be seen to completion - Philippians 1:6
15. God would no longer be faithful nor unchanging - Hebrews 10:23; Malachi 3:6a
Is the God of
Christianity that harsh to His children? To say that our salvation can be lost
is a blasphemy against God's all loving grace and mercy towards a redeemed
church.
For us to lose our salvation, which has been gloriously bought by the blood of Christ, would mean that God would be a liar and untrustworthy, but as He is holy and righteous and cannot look upon sin, the verses above show that indeed our salvation cannot be lost.
I have commented HERE on the claim by some that if we are always saved then we can do what we want - that is called antinomianism and is unbibilical!
I have commented HERE on the claim by some that if we are always saved then we can do what we want - that is called antinomianism and is unbibilical!
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