Those who reject
eternal security say that it is everlasting as long as we obey.
Not exact matches
I do believe in
eternal security, so I would
say that although we are citizens of the Kingdom of God through faith in Jesus, we can still live according to some of the rules (and consequences) of the Kingdom of Darkness.
Donald Cole, who used to host the Open Line Bible Answer Call in Radio Show
says that without fail, he receives at least one, sometimes as many as five questions about
eternal security during every single show.
Now at some time in the
eternal security debate, after all this talk about grace, someone
says something like, «I think you're taking this grace thing a little bit too far.
After I tell some Christians that I believe that God foreknows those whom He can convince / persuade to make a free will decision to accept Christ as their savior and that I believe in
eternal security of the believer, they
say that God can only eternally secure a believer if God removes the person's free will capacity to accept or reject Christ after the person accepts Christ as his savior.
It would not have occurred even to Paul's original readers that he was teaching
eternal security with anything he
said.
I
say that I do not, but I DO believe in
eternal security.
I
say «No, but I do believe in
eternal security.»