Do all protestant denominations believe that salvation can't be lost?

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KendraDZ1902 said:
Can I just clarify? Not all Southern Baptists are like that. Heck, most AREN’T like that. When I read what you posted I thought of the Duggars and the 19 Kids and Counting show on TLC. lol.
I grew up in Alabama. I grew up in a tiny town that had probably 10 baptist churches. (I graduated high school with 82 follks. I’m talking TINY) There were a few kids who were homeschooled, but they were Church of Christ members, not Baptists. I have a friend who is a Southern Baptist minister and his wife dresses rather trendy. 🤷 What you described sounded like Holiness, not Baptist.
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Sorry it has taken me a few days to reply.
I never saw anything in writing that stated they were “holiness anything”…They claimed to be baptist… . Let me tell you the Baptists or those who claim to be Baptists whom I personally know…maybe are of their own rules.
And we were heathens for putting out pumpkins at Halloween and dressing our little ones in Disney. My entire experience was nothing short then a eye rolling experience.
 
BA11 said:
To answer the OP, no they do not. In fact, the OSAS caricature that most catholics seem to have in their mind is taught by an extremely small and insignificant minority of baptist and independent churches. By caricature I mean the idea that one can say a prayer and then go out and live in willful sin forever and still be saved. I’ve never been in a church that taught that.

Now, most baptists and many evangelicals (of which many are baptist in theology anyway) do hold to “actual” theology of OSAS that says a truly repentant heart that comes to Jesus and is saved will not lose their salvation. Such a person has a changed heart and will not live in repeated willful sin without sorrow and repentance, otherwise they would argue you were never truly saved to begin with. Additionally, a truly saved person will perservere and not walk away so they say. A large portion of non-catholics do believe salvation can be forfeited, though.

Now, I personally believe a person CAN lose their salvation (we’re told to perservere and work out our salvation with fear and trembling) but it doesnt happen accidentally. By that I mean I believe a person can be truly saved but, as an act of free will, can walk away in apostasy and willful sin and reject the gift. I don’t believe God revokes the salvation of the truly reborn and repentant, but we can say “no thanks” and walk away. I believe it is a deliberate act, if you wonder about whether or not you’ve lost your salvation then you probably havent because it’s a willful rejection of God.
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Southern Baptist believe in OSAS and they are the largest denonimation of non Catholics in the United States. I would not call that a small minority. 🤷
 
Chiefsinner said:
Here is the common protestant site that most denominations use to answer their faith and this is what I found. It basically says Christians can’t lose salvation…

Or are there any protestant denominations who don’t follow this doctrine.

gotquestions.org/Christian-lose-salvation.html

I think I’m gonna have lots of sleepless nights after I read this…
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I’ve never attended a church that believes in once saved, always saved. The very idea of it is preposterous to me.
 
aidanbradypop said:
A friend of mine just converted to the Baptist faith. She was baptized Catholic>Lutheran>Baptist. She is a firm believer in OSAS. She does not even believe one need to confess the a sin to God or priest because Christ’s death forgave all her sin past and present when she accepted Christ as Lord. 🤷
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Probably why she isn’t Catholic or Lutheran anymore. 🤷

Jon
 
aidanbradypop said:
Southern Baptist believe in OSAS and they are the largest denonimation of non Catholics in the United States. I would not call that a small minority. 🤷
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Again, you don’t understand mainstream “OSAS”. The southern baptist convention doesnt hold that a personw ho accepts God and then lives however they want is saved. Now, some baptists BELIEVE that but that isnt the doctrine. “OSAS” means that someone who is truly saved will always be saved and does not live a life of willful repeated sin anymore. If you are going out and stealing, raping and murdering you were never regenerated to begin with.

I disagree with that to a pretty large extent, but you’re misrepresenting in the same way you accuse non-catholics of doing to your faith.
 
BA11 said:
Again, you don’t understand mainstream “OSAS”. The southern baptist convention doesnt hold that a personw ho accepts God and then lives however they want is saved. Now, some baptists BELIEVE that but that isnt the doctrine. “OSAS” means that someone who is truly saved will always be saved and does not live a life of willful repeated sin anymore. If you are going out and stealing, raping and murdering you were never regenerated to begin with.

I disagree with that to a pretty large extent, but you’re misrepresenting in the same way you accuse non-catholics of doing to your faith.
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I was raised Southern Baptist;)
 
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