Can you lose your salvation?

Can a believer forfeit salvation?

Please share your view, I like when people engage in these topics.

Many Christians I have met, don’t actually know the depths of the Bible. It shocks me how little the average Christian knows about his own belief system.

Atheists actually know more about scripture than Christians do.

I recently read a commentary in a Bible and it said these words in reference to a verse. “No matter how much of your deeds are worthless, no believer will forfeit salvation.”

Just to briefly familiarize people with the text. There is a debatable topic that has been floating amongst the Christian groups, called Calvinism and Arminianism.

These categories are referring to two major views:

Calvinism- the theological system of Calvin and his followers marked by strong emphasis on the sovereignty of God, the depravity of humankind, and the doctrine of predestination.

Arminianism- of or relating to Arminius or his doctrines opposing the absolute predestination of strict Calvinism and maintaining the possibility of salvation for all.

So for those that aren’t familiar with this theology, I would suggest do some research. Very deep doctrine (the meat of theology).

So essentially, the arminian view strongly believes that relationship with God had to be maintained and your walk in life will base whether you get into heaven or not. For instance, if you sin, and you happen to die in that moment you would lose your salvation because you died in sin. The counter is Calvinist believe that a person that’s saved is not judged on the same basis as an unbeliever, and that the sin that happens in a believers life is not significant and cannot cause a person to lose salvation.

The term predestination gets thrown around a lot. Because often times on the Bible, Paul would use the term to refer to saints, or to refer to Gods plans for people.

The Calvinist believes strictly that we are either bound by sin, or bound by righteousness. You do not choose God but God chooses you.

The Arminian believes that you have all, free will to choose as you please, and you choose to serve God or Choose to serve the sin (the devil).

Free will is the ability to make choices according to your desire. Free will is of two theological viewpoints:

Compatibilist and Libertarian. Compatibilism is the position that a person is only as free as his nature permits him to be free and that his sinfulness prevents him from freely choosing God (1 Cor. 2:14, Rom. 3:10-12, Rom. 6:14-20). Libertarian free will is the position that an unsaved sinner is still able to freely choose God in spite of his sinful nature (John 3:16, 3:36).

God’s predestination does not mean that we cannot make free will choices. God predestines in and through our choices because God is all-knowing and all-powerful.

He knows what we will do because He knows all things. He cannot not know all things. So, whatever you choose to do out of your own free volition is known. But His knowing doesn’t mean you don’t freely choose.

I think that Calvinism and Arminianism correlate well together, in fact I think they actually complement one another. They coincide although two completely different perspectives.

I barely skimmed the surface, so much more to this topic. I can write a whole blog on this topic alone.

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