Eternal security – is it biblical?

Response

When individuals accept Christ as their Savior, they enter into a relationship with God that ensures their eternal security. Jude 24 proclaims, “To Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy.” God’s power can prevent believers from stumbling. It is His responsibility, not ours, to present us before His glorious presence. Our eternal security stems from God’s preservation of us, not our ability to maintain our own salvation.

The Lord Jesus Christ declared, “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand” (John 10:28-29b). Both Jesus and the Father securely hold us in their hands. Who could possibly separate us from the grasp of both the Father and the Son?

Ephesians 4:30 informs us that believers are “sealed for the day of redemption.” If believers did not possess eternal security, the sealing would not truly be until the day of redemption, but only until the day of sinning, apostasy, or disbelief. John 3:15-16 assures us that whoever believes in Jesus Christ will “have eternal life.” If someone were promised eternal life but then had it revoked, it was never truly “eternal” from the start. Without eternal security, the assurances of eternal life in the Bible would be inaccurate.

The most compelling evidence for eternal security is found in Romans 8:38-39, “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth,

“nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Our eternal security is founded on God’s love for those whom He has redeemed. Our eternal security is acquired through Christ, assured by the Father, and confirmed by the Holy Spirit.