Never Saved, Always Saved?

You’ve probably heard of ‘once saved, always saved.’ It’s just another way of saying ‘eternal security.’ What it means of course is that once someone has been ‘saved,’ they cannot possibly be lost. It’s the biggest lie that ever came down the pike, and the only reason that mindset exists is that people are not reading the Bible, or at least are not reading it honestly. It’s the same old lie that got into the garden of Eden, and managed to fool Eve. It can be summed up simply as, “Thou shalt not surely die" (Gen.3:4). Yes friend, that is what started all the trouble, failing to believe that "the wages of sin is death" (Rom. 6:23). God said it was that way, and it has certainly proven true to this day. To be sure, the wages of sin were death there in the garden of Eden, and the wages of sin are still death. Sin meaning disobeying the commandments of God (I Jn. 3:4). But the perversity of modern Christianity has gone beyond that lie to something even more warped, if that is possible. The prevalent Christian teachings on the new birth today effectively teach ‘never saved, always saved.’ How is that? Well, it comes down to what really ‘saves’ a person to begin with, and what does not. Anyone who is saved from anything has been saved, or delivered, from the sins they have lived in all their life. So we’re talking about what really takes away a person’s sins and gives them new life in Christ. The Bible clearly tells us that this happens by receiving God’s Spirit, and that receiving the Spirit is the same as being baptized with the Spirit (I Cor. 6:11; Tit. 3:5; Rom. 8:9; I Cor. 12:13; Rom. 6:3,4; II Cor. 5:17). So what that means is that there is no other way that anyone can have their sins taken away and be born again in Christ other than to be baptized by Jesus with the holy Ghost, and have the sign of “speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance,” which sign is inseparable from the new birth experience (Acts 2:4). If we think we’ve been born again when we haven’t, and we think that we have an irreversible salvation thereby, then in reality we’re believing ‘never saved, always saved.’ I'm sure you can see that. If not then read this paragraph again please.

So how did Christianity in this era come up with ‘getting saved,’ ‘accepting the Lord as your personal savior,’ ‘praying the sinners prayer,’ ‘joining the church,’ and ‘confessing Jesus;’ as ways to get into Christ and be born again? These things did not come from the Bible, as there is no mention of them in the scriptures. ‘Confessing Jesus’ is mentioned, but as an exhortation to those who are already born again to continue in the faith (Rom. 10:8,9).The apostle Paul clearly told the Romans in verse 8 of chapter 10 that the "word of faith” was already “nigh unto” the believers in Rome, “even in [their] mouth, and in [their] heart.” So what word was it that was already in the mouths and hearts of the believers in Rome? The one that he mentioned right afterward of course, in verse 9: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” The same exhortation can be found in Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, in just slightly varying words (I Cor. 15:1-4). This exhortation to believers to endure in the faith, as Jesus said was necessary to do for salvation, have been turned into easy new birth methods for sinners (Mat. 24:13). Wow! And the whole ‘sinners saved by grace’ doctrine has topped off this confusion by providing eternal security for people who have not even been truly born again. Wow again!! What do I mean? Well, I’ve already said it, but for the record, if someone accepts Christianity’s teachings of the new birth, and also the ‘sinners saved by grace’ mentality; what you have is someone who has not been baptized by the Spirit into the body of Christ, meaning they are not born into the kingdom of God; thinking that they “have a home in heaven that nobody can take away.” Well, I would say WOW again, but I guess that’s getting kind of redundant. But what I will say is that something sounds very familiar here: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves" (Mat. 23:15). All that’s left to say my friends, is "Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy" (Lk. 12:1). Amen.