Bible Question: I've listened to multitudes of sermons (I'm Bapist) regarding "once saved, always saved" but I can not find this in the Bible in those terms...other than talking about being sealed. Is this what the reference is about? |
Bible Answer: Dear terri shannon, To answer your question, you won’t find that specific phrase in the Bible. It is a term or phrase adapted from doctrines and used to help teach of a few things I believe. It may not even perform to task that well. However… First it concerns the “perseverance of the saints”. Secondly I think it speaks to, if only in part, the “doctrine of election”. Both of these subjects have been discussed much on the forum. If you would enter either perseverance or election into the search box, I’m sure you will find a bunch of information and I even urge you to do so. Quite simply, it is God who graciously saves us through faith in His Son. So why would we even consider that there would be anything we or another could do to change that. If God saves, you can rest assured that He will not fail, so… once you are saved, you are saved eternally. John 10:27 – 30: 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one. Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Stand in His grace, WOS |