Is Free Will Incompatible with Eternal Security? Answering a Common Objection to OSAS! #shorts

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A common objection to the reality of eternal security involves free will. Those that believe in conditional security (the false doctrine that says a believer can lose his regeneration) will say something like this:
"eternal security is false because God gave us free will. If a believer wants to give the gift back or walk away, they can. God doesn't force them to stay in the family."

This argument is easily debunked. Humans make free will choices every day that have consequences which cannot be changed. We don't have unlimited free will. Nobody has unlimited free will. We are limited in what we can freely choose to do. A person who chooses to commit suicide (as horrible as that is) has done so by their own free will. When we reproduce and have children, we have made a free will choice to do so, and cannot go back on that choice. Many choices have everlasting consequences. How many times have you freely chose to do something, and immediately wanted to go back and undo that choice? Many times I'm sure. Just because we have the freedom to make choices does not mean we can always go back on the outcome of that free choice.

Trusting Jesus Christ for eternal life has everlasting consequences. When a person believes on the Lord Jesus for salvation, they have been passed from death unto life. They are in the life now. They have been baptized into the body of Christ. And they have been sealed with the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption. There is no going back on the results that the choice to trust Jesus Christ led to. This is because that choice resulted in everlasting consequences. The Bible says that those justified (through faith) will be glorified. This is a guarantee. This is an everlasting outcome of believing.

Does God have unlimited free will? God is eternal. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. Can He stop being eternal or all-knowing and all-powerful? God is true. The way to the truth is through God. Can God lie? Can God stop being true? These are questions those that hold to conditional security need to ask themselves.

There are numerous things about us that we cannot change. There are many things we can't do even if we tried really hard. We can't become Superman and fly. We can't change our ethnicity and height. And somebody who has believed and been predestined for glorification cannot change that. Everlasting life is a result of trusting Jesus Christ and His finished work. A believer cannot change that which he has been predestined for--which is final sanctification.

In summary, this objection put forth by those who oppose eternal security have not properly thought through their argument. They need to ask themselves the important question "do I have unlimited free will?" People frequently make choices that have everlasting effects. Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life has everlasting consequences. There is nothing anybody can do to undo the work that God is doing in those that have been regenerated.

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