ETERNAL
SECURITY IS IN THE BIBLE!
By
Jeff Paton
For many years I
have asserted that the doctrine of Eternal Security is not to be found anywhere
in the Bible. I have to humble myself and admit that I was wrong; it is stated,
and I will show you where.
It is only asserted
in one place, but it is also displayed in a multitude of examples in Scripture
too! The Bible says in Genesis 3:4 to Adam and Eve concerning eating the
forbidden fruit in the Garden, “Ye shall not surely die:” You see, the Bible
is replete with examples of people who believed this Bible promise and acted
upon it. They believed that they could sin with impunity, for they believed that
“Ye shall not surely die” if you do!
Most Bible students
will have guessed by now that the quotation I used from the Bible were the lying
words of the devil in the temptation of Eve, and not an exhortation of God. Not
every word in the Bible is composed of God’s words to us, but some are
examples of lies and errors in which we are to learn from and avoid! Strangely,
the doctrine that goes by the name of Eternal Security is identical to the very
lie in the Garden, and God has given us an example so we would not also be
deceived by it! Yet many of
those who would shake their heads in dismay at the simplicity in which Adam and
Eve were duped, are some of the very ones that elevate this very doctrine to the
position of the greatest and most important doctrine for the believer to embrace
from the entire Bible! To some, it’s the Gospel!
What are we to say
of doctrines that Satan invents, and then passes them off as Scripture? So many
ignore what he is responsible for many false teaching. Most do not study the
Scriptural statements of evil men in a way in which to see that they are
revealed for for our edification. But God gives them to us as examples and
warnings, and many
times as clear and definite contrasts to His truth!
If Satan says that
if you sin you shall not die spiritually, and God warns us that if we sin we
will die, then how can we ignore such a double emphasis from Scripture?
We have a straightforward prohibition from God Himself, and an example of how
the devil uses Scripture twisting to teach people the very opposite of what God
says! Nowhere in Scripture is it stated that we can sin with impunity, with the
exception of the lie of the devil! We are told that the “wages of sin is
death,” which is spiritual death! “He who sins is of the devil,” which
false teachers tell people to ignore and soften it to allow sin, even though God
has inspired the writer to say it with crystal clarity.
For any doctrine to
be a Biblically endorsed doctrine of God it must be stated in the Bible, yet
Eternal Security or its conclusions are elusive. It is not surprising in the
least that no one can find any such doctrine of Eternal Security in the
Scriptures without assuming it first, because such a doctrine defies all logic
and a multitude of clearly stated Scriptures which proves such a demonic
conclusion as Eternal Security to be false!
Some doctrines can
be derived from the clear statements that are available from piecing the
evidence and several positive statements together, such as the Trinity of God.
The empty promise of an Unconditional Eternal Security is so absent from
Scripture that it cannot be brought together in the same way. Many proponents
of the doctrine have boldly and ignorantly asserted that “Eternal Security is the Gospel!” But how can
that be? You see, the Early
Yes, Eternal Security
is a "Biblical" doctrine on the same order as murder, incest, theft, and
dishonesty are; as clear examples of what things to avoid.