Who invented this once saved always saved doctorine?

Question

because it's truly un-biblical and all who believe it are decieved by the devil.


"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" (Phil. 2:12)

doctrine** I praye that God leads you into true knowledge and not the lies of men who seperated from a religion which seperated from another religion whom was the True Faith in Christ... that is catholicism.

Answer 1

Um, God. It's called Perserverance of the Saints. It means this: All who were chosen by God, redeemed by Christ and given faith by the Holy Spirit are eternally saved. They are kept in faith by the power of Almighty God and thus persevere to the end. Salvation is accomplished by the almighty power of the Triune God. The Father chose a people, the Son died for them, the Holy Spirit makes Christ's death effective by bringing the elect to faith and repentance therey causing them to willingly obey the gospel. The entire process (election, redemption, regeneration) is the work of God and is by grace alone. Thus GOD not man, determines who will be the recipients of the gift of salvation.

This doctrine does not maintain that all who profess the Christian faith are certain of heaven. It is the saints-those who are set apart by the Spirit-who persevere to the end. It is believers-those who are given true living faith in Christ-who are secure and safe in him. Many who profess to believe fall away, but the do not fall from grace for they were never in grace. True believers do fall into temptations, and they do commit grievous sins, but these sins do not cause them to lose their salvation or seperate them from Christ.

God doesn't write your name in the Book of Life in pencil just to erase it every time you mess up (sin). It's written in permanently with the blood of Jesus. If we can lose our salvation that means that Jesus perfect life, sacrifice and resurrection was not good enough. And if that's true then our life is pointless.

Answer 2

Heb. 9:12 - Christ's sacrifice secured our redemption, but redemption is not the same thing as salvation. We participate in and hope for salvation. Our hope in salvation is a guarantee if we are faithful to Christ to the end. But if we lose hope and fail to persevere, we can lose our salvation. Thus, by our own choosing (not by God's doing), salvation is not a certainty. While many Protestant churches believe in the theology of "once saved, always saved," such a novel theory is not found in Scripture and has never been taught by the Church.

Answer 3

You deny the sufficiancy of the finished work of Christ on the cross for salvation?

John 19:30
"It is finished!" (Paid In Full)

John 10:27-29
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.

Answer 4

The false doctrine of "once saved always saved" was made up by the Calvinists, and popularized by the Baptists.

It is so ridiculous to think that you can get saved at 10 then a few years latter renounce God, kill a bunch of people, including yourself, and still go to love with God.

Answer 5

I dont really know, but Im sure it somehow spawned off of Calvinism, or Calvinism spawned off of it.

I dont know how many times I have asked people to explain the parable of the branches... and they are like. Oh wow...

For those that dont know, there is a parable that Jesus says in the bible that goes - I am the vine, you are the branches, he that abides in me, I abide in him.... the good branches will bear fruit, those that do not bear fruit will be cut off and cast into everlasting fire.

(Jesus has never referred to Non-believers as abiding in him by the way... he is very obviously referring to Christians/believers)

Answer 6

Sorry, but you are incorrect. Salvation is a total work of God, not of us. He has chosen out those for salvation, not because of anything we have done or who we are, but out of grace and love. He will not lose one whom He has chosen for salvation.

Eph 1:13 in whom also you, hearing the Word of Truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also believing you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
Eph 1:14 who is an earnest of our inheritance, to the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

Joh 10:28 And I give eternal life to them, and they shall not perish to the age, never! And not anyone shall pluck them out of My hand.

Joh 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name; I guarded those whom You gave to Me, and not one of them was lost, except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

1Pe 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, He according to His great mercy having regenerated us to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe 1:4 to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, having been kept in Heaven for you
1Pe 1:5 the ones in the power of God being guarded through faith to a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time;

1Co 1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save the ones believing.

Joh 5:24 Truly, truly, I say to you, The one who hears My Word, and believes the One who has sent Me, has everlasting life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

1Jo 5:13 I wrote these things to you, the ones believing in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have everlasting life, and that you may believe in the name of the Son of God.

Answer 7

Calvin

Answer 8

Jesus made it (I will never leave you nor forsake you, they are in My hand, and nobody can take them out). Your "falling away" doctrine is pointless and unbiblical, a false "salvation" of works.

Answer 9

In the Bible Belt the Southern Baptist used to be ridiculed stating they believed once saved always saved. But truth is they never said it, someone wanted to jaw at a Baptist.

Answer 10

Jesus only died on the cross once.