Is once saved, always saved biblical?

Once Salvation Is More Than a Decision

Is once-saved, always-saved biblical? We're going to answer that question. Once a person is saved, are they always saved?

Yes.

When people come to know Christ as their Savior, they are brought into a relationship with God that guarantees their salvation as eternally secure. To be clear, salvation is more than saying a prayer or making a decision for Christ.

Salvation is a sovereign act of God whereby an unregenerate sinner is washed, renewed, and born again by the Holy Spirit. When salvation occurs, God gives the forgiven sinner a new heart and puts a new spirit within him.

The spirit will cause the saved person to walk in obedience to God's Word. Numerous passages of Scripture declare the fact that, as an act of God, salvation is.

Romans 8 and the Security of the Believer

Secure.

Romans 8 .30 declares,. This verse tells us from the moment God chooses us, it is as if we are glorified in His presence in heaven. There is nothing that can prevent a believer from one day being glorified because God has already purposed it in heaven.

Once a person is justified, his salvation is guaranteed. He is as secure as if he is already glorified in heaven. In Romans, Paul poses two crucial questions. Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?

It is God who justifies. Who is He that condemns? Christ Jesus who died. More than that, who was raised to life, is at the right hand of God, and is also interceding for us. Who will bring a charge against God's elect?

No one will because Christ is our advocate. Who will condemn us? No one will because Christ, the one who died for us, is the one who condemns. We have both the advocate and the judge as our Savior. Believers are born again, regenerated, when they believe.

For a Christian to lose his salvation, he would have to be unregenerated. The Bible gives no evidence that the new birth can be taken away. The Holy Spirit indwells all believers and baptizes all believers into the body of Christ.

For a believer to become unsaved, he would have to be unindwelt and detached from the body of Christ. John 3 .15 states that whoever believes in Christ will have eternal life. If you believe in Christ today and have eternal life, but lose it tomorrow, then it was never eternal at all.

Nothing Can Separate Believers from the Love of God

Hence, if you lose your salvation, the promises of eternal life in the Bible would be in error. In a conclusive argument, Scripture says,. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, nor 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.

Remember, the same God who saved you is the same God who will keep you. Once we are saved, we are always saved. Our salvation is most definitely eternally secure. That answers the question, once saved or always saved?

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