Thank You to airocross.com for this excellent series.
A couple of weeks ago I began a series on the doctrines of grace
(Calvinism) in an attempt to systematically show how salvation is a work
of God alone and why this must be so. These articles have been
outlined with overwhelming Scriptural evidence revealing the sovereignty
of God in His plan of redemption. The following topics were covered:
- 10 Reasons Man Needs a Sovereign Savior
- 10 Reasons God Sovereignly Elects
- 14 Reasons Christ Sovereignly Redeems (a)
- 14 Reasons Christ Sovereignly Redeems (b)
- 10 Reasons the Holy Spirit Sovereignly Draws Men to Salvation
We will now take a look at 10 reasons or evidences proving the
security of the born again believer, or “P” of the Calvinistic acronym
“TULIP” known as “perseverance (or preservation) of the saints”. Though
a display of God’s love, grace, mercy, and compassion for His people,
this doctrine is controversial between Arminians, Calvinists, and folks
supposedly in between.
Some believe that Christians must hold on to God to maintain their
salvation. While many who hold to this view would deny they have to
work to keep their salvation, this is indeed what this view posits. It
is no different than the view of the Roman Catholic Church that we must
remain in the grace of God by our good works (see Romans 9:6).
Others believe that one can walk away from the faith by apostatizing,
or by renouncing the essentials of the faith or faith altogether. This
view has a couple of distinctions. On the one hand, some may say one
can lose their salvation by renouncing the faith. Yet on the other
hand, others believe if one renounced their faith they would still be
saved because “once saved always saved”. Neither view, however, is
biblical. Continue at Bob Banks
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