"If our salvation is eternally secure, why does the Bible warn so strongly against apostasy?"?

Answer 1

Time and again Paul likens the Christian’s course to a “race” that must be run to the finish. “Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,” he urged the Hebrews. (12:1, AV) To enter the race, sinners must take the steps necessary for salvation: hearing and accepting the Word of God, believing in Jesus Christ and his ransom sacrifice, repenting of their sins and being baptized. In this way, they get saved “from this crooked generation,” as Peter exhorted those gathered at Pentecost. Unbelievers are outside the race, having failed to enter by getting “saved.”Acts 2:37-40.

Once entered in the race by being “saved,” a Christian takes “hold of the life which is life indeed.” But is it possible to lose that grip on life? Paul answers with this question: “Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize?” In the Christian race, Paul indicates the “one” who receives the prize is anyone who finishes the race. Therefore, Paul urges, “So run that you may obtain it.” Then, using himself as an example to make the point of his illustration, he continues: “I pommel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.” 1 Tim. 6:19.

Evidently the apostle, who surely was a “saved” Christian, believed that even he could be “disqualified” from the race. Yet as long as he continued to ‘run that he might obtain’ the prize, thus remaining in the race, salvation was assured. This is why Christians who remain in the race can be said to ‘have everlasting life.’ But if they should ever quit the race, they are “disqualified,” losing their hold on everlasting life.

Answer 2

Our salvation is not eternally secure. We must always be on guard. The strongest verse I can find to support this is found in 2 Peter 2:20-22:

For if they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the full knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and are again entangled, they have been overcome by these, their last things are worse than the first For it would have been better for them not to have fully known the way of righteousness, than fully knowing it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But the word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog turning to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to wallowing in the mire.

It is better for someone to have never been saved than to be saved and walk away. Once you have knowledge of the truth and turn away, then you will become worse than where you were before you knew the truth.

Answer 3

Because the Bible contradicts itself on the issue of perseverence of the saints which is why Methodists, Baptists and Calvinists still divide. The verse below weigh in against salvation being a done deal at a point in time.

Matthew 10:22: "...he that endureth to the end shall be saved."
John 15:6: "If anyone does not remain in me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up , thrown into the fire and burned."
1 Corinthians 15-2: "By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain."
Galatians 6:8-9: "The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in going good, for at the proper time, we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
2 Timothy 2:12: "If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us."
Hebrews 6:4-6: "For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come. If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the son of God afresh and put him to an open shame."
Philippians 2:12b “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.”

Answer 4

According to the bible, salvation is NOT eternally secure.

"He who endures to the end will be saved" (Matt. 24:13; cf. 25:31–46)

"See then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off" (Rom. 11:22; see also Heb. 10:26–29, 2 Pet. 2:20–21).

"I pummel my body and subdue it, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified" (1 Cor. 9:27).

Philippians 2:12 says, "Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling."

"For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified" (Rom. 2:13).

"So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead" (Jas. 2:17).

Answer 5

Apostasy is the abandonment of one's faith. it really is variety of a falling away, and it really is a nasty ingredient. If the fellow who falls remote from their faith change into quite a born-back Christian, he does no longer lose his salvation, yet he will lose his exhilaration in life. (And he would lose different issues too, like his ministry, etc.) If the fellow who falls remote from their faith isn't a actual Christian, then he doesn't lose something. he's already lost. it really is hard it imagine a real born-back Christian "falling away," even if it may ensue. reckoning on the point of their personal non secular adulthood, they're typically deceived. and in view that of this we are warned to computer screen and pray, and that the evil one is asking for whom he can eat. back, they do no longer lose their salvation. yet they're going to under no circumstances locate authentic exhilaration outdoors of God. and in view that of this we are warned about it.

Answer 6

For the Believers who have truly received Christ and salvation, it is eternally secure, the Bible is quite clear on that. Apostasy occurs among those who use the name "Christian" but were never born again, and never saved.

Mat 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter into the kingdom of Heaven, but the ones who do the will of My Father in Heaven.
Mat 7:22 Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name do many works of power?
Mat 7:23 And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; "depart from Me, those working lawlessness!" Psa. 6:8


They never knew Christ, and Christ does not "know" them.

Answer 7

The word “apostate” isn’t in the bible. An apostate is a person that denies the faith and the bible makes reference to the “church” in the latter days that will deny the faith. A truly born again Christian cannot “fall away” from the faith. There had been and will be many more who will make a profession of being a Christian of which he never was to begin with. To such people, the Lord will say depart from me, I NEVER knew you. Never knew you meant he never knew them at any time. Many read into that as Jesus saying “I use to know you”.

One sign of an apostate church is those that teach a works based salvation. Such teachings deny the Christ of who’s sacrifice was sufficient and as such are guilty of considering the blood of Christ as a unholy thing that insults the Spirit of grace. (Hebrews 10:29)

It goes without being said that to teach loss of salvation is to automatically teach that it is our own works that saves us and therefore the sacrifice of Christ was pointless. Such people have joined in with the rest of the world in teaching that salvation is not by faith in Christ alone but that salvation comes through our own works of righteousness. Sorry, but such teachings are of apostates of who never knew Christ.

Answer 8

Because it is NOT eternally secure. Someone once saved can fall away.

Answer 9

Apostates were never saved in the first place....

They had a false conversion

Answer 10

You still have freedom to choose.