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Once Saved, Always Saved? Part II
One has to be taught by men an unconditional eternal security because it is nowhere to be found in Holy Scripture. It is the job of the false teacher to "prove" his false teaching and he is only able to deceive those who are not founded in the truth (God's Word). In over two decades of ministry to people who have been taught this unconditional eternal security lie, I have found not one who personally discovered this doctrine in the Word of God. Rather they have been taught by men, without sound Bible revelation, that unconditional eternal security is a doctrine of the Christian faith. Any honest student of the Word who diligently searches the Scriptures, can testify that such a doctrine does not exist in the Bible.
"There never was or ever can be a born Securist. You reader, or any other truly born again Christian, cannot read Eternal Security verses and get Eternal Security 'out of' them. The only way that Eternal Security can be attached to these verses is to 'read it into' them. This proves that Eternal Security is an extra-Biblical, external philosophy, seeking Biblical sanction. People are 'educated into' Eternal Security, just as truly as atheists are 'educated into' atheism." Henry Schilling   
Concerning the matter of being tarnished with the lies of Satan and Calvin, in his book entitled The Disciple-Making Minister, David Kirkwood writes:
"Near the end of his booklet, Piper quotes legendary Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon, who said that he began as an Armenian (Armenians disagree with all five points of Calvinism), like everyone else. This is a telling remark because it is so true. No one begins as a Calvinist. They only become Calvinists as they are taught Calvinism. Piper's own testimony is no different. He admits "many years of struggle" (p. 1, para. 4) before he was able to accept Calvinism. Perhaps even more difficult than the struggle to accept Calvinism is the struggle to reject it after one has struggled so hard to accept it. But it can, and has, been done."  See www.ShepherdServe.org.
Though commanded by God and recorded in His Word, today the whole notion conveyed by some is that obedience is optional to anyone who has genuinely been made a new creature through the divinely granted miracle of being born again. Wow, what unabashed mockery! What a travesty these men are perpetrating against the Most High. The LORD told us to "mark" these men, "For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly (selfish desires); and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple." (<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Rom. 16:17-18)
The apostle Peter warned sternly of going back into sin and of the end being worse than it would have been if that person had never known the way of righteousness (2 Pet. 2:20-21). Under the Spirit's direction, he also commanded: "Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." (1 Pet. 2:11) Note the resolute and potent words of Peter here. There leaves no room to wonder when we read these precious and divinely-inspired words of Holy Writ. In this late hour so many who have been elevated to the status of Christian celebrity, "deceive the hearts of the simple" with their flowery and deceptive doctrines and language. No such evil persuasion came from the mouths or pens of the apostles of Christ.
In the complete absence of the God of the Bible ever forcing any person to serve Him, these false teachers forge ahead with their "good words and fair speeches deceiving the hearts of the simple." (Rom. 16:17-18) They convey the notion and even blatantly teach that those who are born again will automatically persevere in obedience and fellowship with Christ. But the Word of God always presents the choice to God's people – to continue to walk with Him or to turn from Him in rebellion. A cursory look at Israel in the Old Testament Scriptures reveals this as clear as the light shining like the noon day sun. In their own self-will, those who teach this no-responsibility heresy, ignore clearly revealed divine truth, giving preference to their doctrine of devils, and in so doing, serve their own "belly" or carnal desires.
"And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words…Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ." Colossians 2:4, 8
Beware of the modern day deceiver who works to cleverly articulate his Calvinistic and poisonous points of theology, using myth and human reasoning while violating revealed divine truth in the very Word of God. This is a grave evil being perpetrated from pulpits, books and other media across the world, leading millions to the worship of a false god. These are deceivers and they do not honor God and His Word.
"For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." 2 Corinthians 2:17
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