Little Red Book Ministry

IV. Eternal Security, the Only Logical Viewpoint
“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” (Hebrews 6:4–6).

From the above verses you can see that, if a person were to lose his salvation, he could never be saved again. He would be forever doomed to damnation. Yet a major tenet of those who do not accept eternal security as doctrine is that they can be saved over and over again. Sometimes these people simply choose to ignore these verses.

To make matters worse, these folks believe that it is ultimately up to them to keep themselves saved. They also will readily admit that all Christians go through periods of spiritual ‘flatness’ where they don’t feel very close to their Lord and sin in some way after they are saved. They believe that “minor sins” or sins that do not indicate a denial of their relationship with God or cross over some unspecified line of demarcation will be forgiven. However, there is a point at which God revokes their salvation. Thus, they often are tormented over the question as to whether they are still saved at any given time.

The simple facts are that the Bible gives no indication of any line of demarcation past which a Christian loses his salvation. The Bible simply states that “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23), and “the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” (Ezekiel 18:20). According to the scriptures, if a man is guilty of his sin at all, he will go to hell. Therefore, since they claim themselves to be guilty of their sins after their salvation (in spite of 1 John 3:9: see page 1) and the wages of sin is death, and they cannot be saved again, it is patently obvious that nobody has any realistic hope of heaven and salvation is a sham.