Logic Proves Eternal Security! - Once a Son ALWAYS a Son (Demolishing Conditionalism)
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Teaching @shamounian BASIC soteriology.
The Bible teaches a believer cannot lose their regeneration. You are not born again and again and again. You are born again one time. When you trust Jesus Christ for salvation, you are passed from death unto life. This means you are in the life now. This should be obvious. But many who hold to a sloppy form of soteriology called conditional security would have us believe that we can go from life back to death. This is contrary to both scripture and logic.
We are all born into this world as creatures of God. Once a person places their trust (believe and trust are used interchangeably in the Bible) in the finished work of Jesus Christ, they are legally declared righteous. This is known as justification. You cannot be un-justified. Justification is once and for all. You are also born again or regenerated. A person who has placed their faith in Jesus Christ for salvation has gone from a creature of God to a son of God. God does not commit spiritual abortion. But @shamounian would have us believe that God would spiritually abort His own children! This is not sound soteriology. And this is easily debunked.
The Bible also teaches that once a person is justified and regenerated, they are also predestined for glorification. Glorification is final sanctification (being conformed to the image of His son). This is when believers get a new body (the redemption of the body). @shamounian would have us believe that God will abort that work that He has begun in us. No, the believer has a new destiny the moment he chose to put his faith and trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ. There is no changing that destiny. The believer is also indwelt and SEALED with the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption. This is a downpayment. There is no un-sealing the Holy Ghost. Believers WILL receive new bodies at final sanctification.
Jesus speaks of salvation as being life that never ends. Jesus says no man (including the believer himself) can pluck us out of His hand, or His Father's hand (double eternal security!). Jesus says the believer is in the life NOW. The passing from death unto life is not something that is ongoing. No, it has passed. This shouldn't be complicated. But apparently conditional security proponents like Sam Shamoun think this is complicated. Jesus also says that the one who believes in Him will never thirst, never hunger, and never die! In the Greek, never die is quite emphatic. It literally means never ever die! But conditional security proponents would have us believe that we could die, or we could thirst and hunger. But this is not Biblical. Believe it or not, never die literally means never die.
Since a believer clearly cannot lose his salvation since Jesus has promised us eternal life (life that never ends). And if you could lose salvation, that would not be eternal life. That would be temporary life. Jesus does not lie. The question becomes: what can a believer lose? A believer can lose his fellowship (different from sonship or position), blessings, his testimony, and rewards. A believer will also be chastised by his heavenly Father for not walking in the spirit and following His commandments. A person who gets saved goes from not having chastisement TO having divine chastisement. This is meant to correct the believer back into fellowship.
The Apostle Paul says "if we live in the spirit (our position), let us also walk (our experience) in the spirit". A believer may stumble and fall in his experience, but nothing can change his position in Christ. Our condition as believers should be conforming more and more to the image of His Son. And we do this by walking in the spirit and excelling in our spiritual education.
In summary, a believer cannot lose his regeneration. God does not commit spiritual abortion. When you understand the differences between justification and sanctification - or position and condition - it becomes extremely easy to refute guardians of spiritual abortion such as Sam Shamoun. Jesus says a believer will never die. And Jesus does not lie. Believers will never die.
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