Calvinism:Perseverance of the Saints

By Their Own Definition…“The logical conclusion of Calvinism is that

since “salvation is of the Lord”, and absolutely no part of it is dependent upon any condition found in the elect, but is wholly dependent upon the God who has willed to save those

whom He gave to His dear Son, salvation can never be lost. The saints of God will surely persevere because He has given them His

promise that no creature can take them away from Him (including themselves). We shall

persevere because He wills to persevere!” – Tulip, The Five Points of Calvinism in the Light

of Scripture – Duane Edward Spencer, p. 75

By Their Own Definition…

“The simplest, shortest description of the perseverance of the saints is: Once

saved, always saved…Once you believe, you can never be lost, you can never go to hell…It is possible to get your eternal destiny settled once for all so that you never have to worry about it…The term perseverance of the saints emphasizes

that Christians…will persevere in trusting Christ as their savior.” – The Five Points

of Calvinism, Edwin H. Palmer, p. 68

Conditional Election & Once Saved, Always Saved Leads One to Believe…

If you are saved, you can’t lose it…

If you lose it, you never had it…

If you don’t have it, there is nothing YOU can do to get it!

The Security of the Believer(1 Peter 1:5)

who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be

revealed in the last time. (NKJV)

The Security of the Believer(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. (NKJV)

The Security of the Believer

(Romans 8:35-39)

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or

persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: "For Your

sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." Yet

in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

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. (NKJV)

Man DOES Have A Free Will

(Ezekiel 18:20-24)

"The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of

the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. "But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. "None of the

transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. "Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?" says the

Lord GOD, "and not that he should turn from his ways and live? "But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and

commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has

done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he

shall die. (NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(Ezekiel 3:20) "Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness

and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall

die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has

done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at

your hand. (NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(Ezekiel 18:24-26) "But when a righteous man turns away from his

righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is

guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die. "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair.' Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair? "When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity,

and dies in it, it is because of the iniquity which he has done that he dies. (NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(Luke 8:13) "But the ones on the rock are those who,

when they hear, receive the word with joy; and

these have no root, who believe for a while and in

time of temptation fall away. (NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(Luke 9:62) But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking

back, is fit for the kingdom of God." (NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(Acts 20:17, 28-30) From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and called for the

elders of the church…(vs. 28-30) "Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the

Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own

blood. "For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

"Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples

after themselves. (NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(1 Corinthians 10:12) Therefore let him who

thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. (NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(Galatians 5:4) You have become

estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you

have fallen from grace. (NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(1 Timothy 1:19-20) having faith and a good conscience, which some having

rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to

Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. (NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(1 Timothy 4:1) Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some

will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, (NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(1 Timothy 6:10) For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with

many sorrows. (NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(Hebrews 3:12) Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

(NKJV)

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(Hebrews 10:26-27) 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.

Passages That Refute the Once Saved, Always Saved Doctrine

(2 Peter 2:20-22) 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." (NKJV)