The document discusses various theological perspectives on whether a regenerate believer can lose their salvation, presenting views from Roman Catholic, Arminian, and Reformed traditions. It argues for conditional security, citing numerous scriptures that suggest believers can fall away or lose salvation, as well as a defense for eternal security based on logic and supporting biblical texts. Historical context is provided, indicating that the 'once-saved-always-saved' doctrine was not commonly believed before the 16th century.

2. Can A Regenerate Believer
Lose Their Salvation?
3 Responses
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• Roman Catholic View
• Arminian View
• Reformed View

3. Can A Regenerate Believer
Commit Apostasy and Lose Their Salvation?
3 Responses
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• Catholics say YES
• Arminians say YES
• Reformed say NO

4. What Can Cause Someone To Lose
Their Salvation?
3 Responses
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• Catholics say a MORTAL SIN
• Arminians say APOSTASY
• Reformed say NOTHING

5. A Defense of Conditional Security
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ARGUMENT #1
“FREE WILL”
God gives us freedom to choose Him or reject Him.
He does not take away this freedom when we
become believers.

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ARGUMENT #2
Numerous scriptures that support the
idea that one can lose his/her salvation

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1 John 5:16 (NKJV)
“If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin
which does not lead to death, he will ask, and
He will give him life for those who commit sin
not leading to death. There is sin leading to
death. I do not say that he should pray about
that.”

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Mark 3:28,29 (NKJV)
“Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be
forgiven the sons of men, and whatever
blasphemies they may utter; but he who
blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has
forgiveness, but is subject to eternal
condemnation.”

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Hebrews 10:26,27 (NKJV)
“For if we sin willfully after we have received
the knowledge of the truth, there no longer
remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain
fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery
indignation which will devour the
adversaries.”

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2 Peter 2:19-22 (NKJV)
“For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world
through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end
is worse for them than the beginning. For it would have been
better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,
than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment
delivered to them. But it has happened to them according to the
true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow,
having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”

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Galatians 5:1-4 (NKJV)
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has
made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of
bondage. 2 Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become
circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. 3 And I testify
again to every man who becomes circumcised that he is a
debtor to keep the whole law. 4 You have become
estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by
law; you have fallen from grace.”

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Matthew 18:23-35 (NKJV)
The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

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ARGUMENT #3
Numerous scriptures that support the
idea that one can lose his/her salvation
through apostasy

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Hebrews 6:4-6 (NKJV)
“For it is impossible for those who were once
enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and
have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have
tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age
to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to
repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the
Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.”

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ARGUMENT #4
Numerous scriptures that support the
idea that the saved must continue to believe

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Matthew 24:10-13 (NKJV)
“And then many will be offended, will betray
one another, and will hate one another. Then
many false prophets will rise up and deceive
many. And because lawlessness will abound,
the love of many will grow cold. But he who
endures to the end shall be saved.”

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Hebrews 3:6 (NKJV)
“But Christ as a Son over His own house,
whose house we are if we hold fast the
confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm
to the end.”

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John 3:16 (NKJV)
“For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him should not perish but have everlasting
life.”
“Believes” [present active, “keeps on believing”])

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John 5:24 (NKJV)
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears
My word and believes in Him who sent Me
has everlasting life, and shall not come into
judgment, but has passed from death into
life.”
“Believes” [present active, “keeps on believing”])

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John 5:24 (NKJV)
“And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that
everyone who sees the Son and believes in
Him may have everlasting life; and I will
raise him up at the last day.”
“Believes” [present active, “keeps on believing”])

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ARGUMENT #5
Historical:
Prior to the 16th
century (John Calvin), no
one believed in the now common “once-saved-
always-saved” view.

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The Didache 16 (A.D. 70)
“Watch for your life's sake. Let not your lamps
be quenched, nor your loins unloosed; but be
ready, for you know not the hour in which our
Lord will come... for the whole time of your
faith will not profit you, if you are not made
perfect in the last time.”

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Ignatius, Letter to the Ephesians 10
A.D. 110
“And pray without ceasing in behalf of other
men; for there is hope of the repentance, that
they may attain to God. For he that falls
cannot arise again, and he may not attain to
God?”

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Jerome, Against Jovinian 2:30
A.D. 393
“There are venial sins and there are mortal sins. It is one thing to
owe ten thousand talents, another to owe but a farthing. We shall
have to give an accounting for an idle word no less than for
adultery. But to be made to blush and to be tortured are not the
same thing; not the same thing to grow red in the face and to be in
agony for a long time. . . . If we entreat for lesser sins we are
granted pardon, but for greater sins, it is difficult to obtain our
request.”

25. A Defense of Eternal Security
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ARGUMENT #1
“Logic of Scripture”
Eternal security is a necessary and
logical outcome of total depravity and
unconditional election.

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TULIP
• TOTAL DEPRAVITY
• UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION
• LIMITED ATONEMENT
• IRRESISTIBLE GRACE
• PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS
(ETERNAL SECURITY)

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ARGUMENT #2
“Supporting Scriptures on Eternal Life”
To not believe eternal security is to not
believe many passages that explicitly teach
that a true believer can never be lost.

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John 10:25-29 (NKJV)
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not
believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name, they
bear witness of Me. But you do not believe, because you
are not of My sheep, as I said to you. My sheep hear My
voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give
them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither
shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father,
who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no
one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.”

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Romans 8:29,30 (NKJV)
“For whom He foreknew, He also predestined
to be conformed to the image of His Son, that
He might be the firstborn among many
brethren. Moreover whom He predestined,
these He also called; whom He called, these
He also justified; and whom He justified,
these He also glorified.”

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Romans 8:38,39 (NKJV)
“For I am persuaded that neither death nor
life, nor angels nor principalities nor
powers, nor things present nor things to
come, nor height nor depth, nor any other
created thing, shall be able to separate us
from the love of God which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.”

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Romans 11:29 (NKJV)
“For the gifts and the calling of
God are irrevocable.”

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Ephesians 1:13,14 (NKJV)
“In Him you also trusted, after you heard the
word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in
whom also, having believed, you were sealed
with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the
guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption
of the purchased possession, to the praise of His
glory.”

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John 6:39,40 (NKJV)
“This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that
of all He has given Me I should lose nothing,
but should raise it up at the last day. And this is
the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who
sees the Son and believes in Him may have
everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last
day.”

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John 5:24 (NKJV)
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who
hears My word and believes in Him
who sent Me has everlasting life, and
shall not come into judgment, but has
passed from death into life.”

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John 5:24 (NKJV)
“Most assuredly, I say to you, he who
hears My word and believes in Him
who sent Me has everlasting life, and
shall not come into judgment, but has
passed from death into life.”

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ARGUMENT #3
“Supporting Scriptures on Assurance”
Without Eternal Security, it is difficult to
be confident and assured of our salvation,
which contradicts scripture.

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1 John 5:13 (NASB)
“These things I have written to you
who believe in the name of the Son
of God, so that you may know that
you have eternal life.”

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Phillipians 1:6 (NASB)
“For I am confident of this very
thing, that He who began a good
work in you will perfect it until the
day of Christ Jesus.”

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Security and perseverance are two
sides to the same coin. It is God’s
responsibility to protect and secure
our salvation and it is our
responsibility to persevere in our
belief until the end…

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However, God will enable those
who are His to persevere until the
end. Those who don’t persevere
until the end were not His to begin
with.