I would like some Bible verses and some answers to this question, thanks.
Some things to look for:
There are two sides to salvation,
1) God's faithfulness to man
2) man's faithfulness to God
Those that deny salvation is conditional will sometimes take out of context verses that speak about God's faithfulness to man while ignoring verses that speak about men being faithful to God, examples Jn 10:28 ignoring verse 27 and Phil 1:6 ignoring verse 5. No verse says God will continue to be faithful and save those that become unfaithful to Him nor does say verse say God has an obligation to save those that become unfaithful to Him. Some, as Charles Stanley, will say a man can lose his faith entirely and still be saved, a Christian can live in sin, committing every sin over and over and still be saved...(which is actually true if Eternal Security were true). But too many bible verses speak to the fact one will be lost without faith and those that commit various sins of the flesh will be lost, Gal 5:19-21; 1 Cor 6:9,10.
2) the conditional word "IF" often gets ignored by those that deny salvation is conditional, 1 Jn 1:6,7,9; 1 Jn 2:3,24; 2 Pet 1:8; Col 1:23; etc.
3) the logic behind the words "fell" or "fall" gets ignored oftentimes. For you to fall out of a tree you must first climb up that tree and be in that tree to logically fall from that tree. The bible speaks of those that fell away or were fallen, Gal 5:4.
One who was always fallen cannot fall for he was never in a saved position to fall from. So logically for you to fall from a tree you must first be up in that tree then logically for you to fall you must first be in a saved position to fall from. Logically one cannot fall from God's grace unless he was first in God's grace.
4) the excuse is offered by those that deny salvation can be lost is if one quits believing or commits sin then he was never really saved to begin with. If Judas or Simon (Ats 8) sinning proves they were never "really" saved to begin with, then what Christian is ever "really" saved to begin with since all Christians do sin sometimes?
If I went from the first grade to 11th grade but quit before the 12th grade, does my quitting before the 12th grade mean I was never "really" was a student, never "really" took classes, never "really" got any grades? No, for one can believe most of his life and become unfaithful at the end and be lost, Rev 2:10, not overcome, Rev 2:26.
5) those that deny salvation is conditional will sometimes claim only "rewards" are lost when the context is not talking about rewards at all but eternal salvation. The idea of losing rewards is forced into the text to protect their man-made teaching. Sometimes they may even try and change the meaning of 'saved' to run around verses that say salvation can be lost.
6) those that deny salvation is conditional will take a verse as Mt 1:21 and assume the word "unconditional" into it, that Jesus will save people unconditionally. One must consider all the counsel of God to see if Christ saves people unconditional and from verses as Jn 8:24; Lk 13:3,5; Mt 10:32,33, and Mk 16:16 Christ made salvation CONDITIONAL upon one believing, repenting, confessing and being baptized.
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