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"Perseverance of the Saints"
(or "eternal security" or "once saved always saved")
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Scriptural refutation of "eternal Security"
Following is a very simple chart which refutes the doctrine of "Once saved, always saved." As you will notice, we have selected the passages which clearly demonstrate that the inspired writers were referring to Christians (children of God). This destroys the very convenient dodge: "If they are lost, they weren't saved to begin with" and/or "If one is a child of God, he could never cease to become a child of God." As shown in the chart, among other things, a child of God can become an "accursed child." Please carefully examine all the passages given in the chart. As shown in those verses, the inspired writers are referring to children of God.
Things Children of God Can Do:
1. Fall from grace - Gal. 5:1-4,13
2. Be led away with error - 2 Pet. 3:17
3. Err from the truth - James 5:19-20
4. Weak brother may perish - 1 Cor. 8:11
5. Fall into condemnation - James 5:12
6. Be moved away from the hope - Col. 1:21-23
7. Deny the Lord who bought them - 2 Pet. 2:1
8. Depart from the living God - Heb. 3:12
9. Can be a castaway - 1 Cor. 9:27
10. Can become accursed children - 2 Pet. 2:14
36 Bible texts that refute "eternal security"
36 Bible texts that refute "eternal security"
Bible Text
Description Of Blood Bought Believer
Description Of Sin
Description After
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Indicate Those Descriptions You Feel Do Not Refer To Christians But The Lost
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Indicate Those You Feel Do Not Refer To The Lost, But To Christians
Ezek 3:20; 18:24-26
righteous
turns away, commits iniquity
die in sin
Mt 25:1-13
took lamps and went to meet Christ
5 were foolish
"I do not know you"
Mt 25:14-30
Christ's own slaves
hid talent
wicked lazy, cast into outer darkness, weep & gnash
Lk 8:13
receive word with joy, believe
temptation, persecution
fall away
Lk 9:62
put hands to plow of kingdom
looked back to former life
not fit for kingdom
Lk 12:42-48
steward in charge of Christ's servants
beat slaves, drunkenness
cut in pieces, assign with unbelievers
Jn 15:1-6
branches
does not abide
thrown away, dried up, burnt
Acts 4:32;5:1-11
of those who believed
lied to Holy Spirit
God struck dead
Acts 8:9-24
Simon the sorcerer believed, baptized, received HS
offered money
heart not right, wickedness, gall of bitterness, bond of iniquity
Acts 20:17,28-30
elders, shepherds of church
false doctrine
drawn away
Rom 11:13-23
wild olive, grafted in v17, stand by faith V20
unbelief, not continue V20,22
not spared, cut off V21-22
1 Cor 9:26-27
Apostle Paul, preached to others
body not slave
Paul disqualified
1 Cor 10:1-12
standing (feel they are saved) V12
immorality, crave evil, grumble,
fall V12
Gal 2:11-14
Apostle Peter
false doctrine, hypocrisy
Literal Greek "stood condemned" V11
Gal 5:4
severed & fallen indicates previously joined and standing
seeking to keep OT
severed from Christ, fallen from grace
Gal 6:1
restore indicates once saved
caught in trespass
needed to be restored
1 Ti 1:18-20
Hymenaeus, Alexander: shipwreck indicates they once sailed good.
rejected faith and good conscience, blasphemed
their personal faith shipwrecked, delivered to Satan
1 Ti 4:1
fall away indicates once saved
false doctrine
fall away from faith
1 Ti 5:8
passage addressed to Christians
doesn't provide for family
denied faith, worse than unbeliever
1 Ti 6:10
passage addressed to Christians
love of money
wandered from faith, pierced selves with pangs
2 Ti 2:16-18
Hymenaeus and Philetus: gone astray indicates once correct
False doctrine: resurrection past
gone astray, upset other's faith as well
Heb 3:12
brethren
evil, unbelieving
fall away from God
Heb 4:1-2,11
brethren, addressed to Christians
unbelief, disobey
short of God's rest, fall
Heb 6:4-8
once enlightened, tasted heavenly gift, partakers of HS, Bible & powers to come, renew indicates restore to former cleanness
sin
fallen away, can't renew, crucified Christ again and put in open shame
Heb 10:26-31
received knowledge of truth. no longer remains indicates they once had forgiveness
sinning willfully
no forgiveness of sin, fearful judgment
Heb 10:38-39
God's righteous, Christians
shrinks back
God has no pleasure in him, destruction
Jas 5:19-20
brethren, Christians
strays from truth, sin
soul will die in sins, sinner
1 Pe 5:8
Christians
sin
devoured by devil
2 Pe 2:1
Christians, "among you" had been bought by Christ
false prophets
swift destruction
2 Pe 2:20-22
escaped defilements of world by Christ, entangled again, returns to mire indicates they were once untangled and clean, known way of righteousness, had washed
entangled, overcome, turned away, returns to vomit/mire
last state worse than first, better they never had became Christians
2 Pe 3:17
beloved, Christians
carried away,
fall from own steadfastness
2 Jn 8-9
Christians, have accomplished
not abide in doctrine, false doctrine
lose, no reward doesn't have God
Rev 2:4-5
Christians in Ephesus
left first love
fallen, lampstand removed
Rev 3:5
Christians in Sardis
deeds incomplete
are dead
Rev 3:16-17
Christians in Laodicea
lukewarmness
spit out of Christ's mouth
Indicate Those Descriptions You Feel Do Not Refer To Christians But The Lost
Indicate Those You Feel Do Not Refer To The Lost, But To Christians
Topical organization of scriptures that refute "Eternal Security"
1 Parable of sower
Mark 4:16 (Luke 8:13) "And in a similar way these are the ones on
whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word,
immediately receive it with joy; (they believe for a while) and they have
no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction
or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.
2 Fallen from grace passage:
Galatians 5:4 "You have been severed from Christ, you who are
seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace."
3 Pruning passages:
John 15:5-6 "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in
Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do
nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch, and
dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are
burned."
Romans 11:19-23 "You will say then, "Branches were broken off so
that I might be grafted in." Quite right, they were broken off for their
unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; for
if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will He spare you.
Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity,
but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you
also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in their
unbelief, will be grafted in; for God is able to graft them in again."
4 Hebrews Passages:
Hebrews 6:4-6 For in the case of those who have once been
enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made
partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the
powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to
renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the
Son of God, and put Him to open shame.
Hebrews 10:26-27 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving
the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment, and the fury of a fire
which will consume the adversaries."
Hebrews 10:38-39 "But My righteous one shall live by faith; And if
he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him. But we are not of those
who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the
preserving of the soul."
5 Doctrinal Apostasy passages:
Acts 20:17,28-30 "And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called to
him the elders of the church." ... "I know that after my departure savage
wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your
own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the
disciples after them."
1 Timothy 1:18-21 "fight the good fight, keeping faith and a good
conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to
their faith. Among these are HYMENAEUS and Alexander"
2 Timothy 2:16-18 But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will
lead to further ungodliness, and their talk will spread like gangrene.
Among them are HYMENAEUS and Philetus, men who have gone astray from the
truth saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and thus they
upset the faith of some.
1 Timothy 4:1 "But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times
some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits
and doctrines of demons"
1 Timothy 6:20-21 "O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you,
avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is
falsely called "knowledge"-which some have professed and thus gone astray
from the faith."
2 Peter 2:1 "But false prophets also arose among the people, just as
there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce
destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing
swift destruction upon themselves."
2 Peter 3:17 "You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, be on
your guard lest, being carried away by the error of unprincipled men, you
fall from your own steadfastness"
2 John 8-9 "Watch yourselves, that you might not lose what we have
accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. Anyone who goes too
far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the
one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son."
6 Moral Apostasy passages:
1 Timothy 6:9-10 "But those who want to get rich fall into
temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge
men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all sorts
of evil, and some by longing for it have wandered away from the faith, and
pierced themselves with many a pang."
2 Peter 2:20-22 "For if after they have escaped the defilements of
the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are
again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse
for them than the first. For it would be better for them not to have known
the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy
commandment delivered to them. It has happened to them according to the
true proverb, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and, "A sow, after washing,
returns to wallowing in the mire.""
James 5:19-20 "My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth,
and one turns him back, let him know that he who turns a sinner from the
error of his way will save his soul from death, and will cover a multitude
of sins."
7 Revelation passages:
Revelation 2:4-5 "'But I have this against you, that you have left
your first love. 'Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent
and do the deeds you did at first; or else I am coming to you, and will
remove your lampstand out of its place-unless you repent."
Revelation 3:5 "'He who overcomes shall thus be clothed in white
garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will
confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.
Revelation 3:16-17 'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor
cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. 'Because you say, "I am rich, and
have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that
you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked"
8 Old Testament passages
Ezekiel 18:24-26 "But when a righteous man turns away from his
righteousness, commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations
that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has
done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and
his sin which he has committed; for them he will die. "Yet you say, 'The
way of the Lord is not right.' Hear now, O house of Israel! Is My way not
right? Is it not your ways that are not right? "When a righteous man turns
away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies because of it, for
his iniquity which he has committed he will die."
Other scriptural arguments that refute "Eternal Security"
A. The fact the Bible exhorts to faithfulness proves one can be lost
be steadfast immovable: 1 Cor 15:58
If these qualities are yours...2 Pe 1:5-11
we will reap if we do not grow weary: Gal 6:9
be faithful unto death and I will give crown of life: Rev 2:10
practice these things and God will be with you: Phil 4:9
B. Man has a free will: Josh 24:15 to argue otherwise is nonsense and is a
veiled form of existentialism
C. The Bible clearly prophesied some would fall away: Acts 20:28; 1 Ti 4:1
D. Christians are to restore the fallen: Gal 6:1; Jas 5:19-20
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