Jer 31: 31-34 - Eternal Security or Conditional Salvation?

[jasontn]

One website holds this supports eternal security. They note the verse “I will remember thier sin no more” Is this true? I don’t think it is but I cannot think of a reason to justify my belief.

Jer.31:31-34:Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Quoted in Heb.8:7-12) This is a permanent forgiveness of sin.

 

[rpp]

Salvation is always based upon free will. Can a choice made in youth not be repudiated as an old age? I believe that is as true as claiming a repudiation made in youth cannot be overcome by faith later in life; which no one who promotes “eternal security” would assert.

 

[jasontn]

Salvation is always based upon free will. Can a choice made in youth not be repudiated as an old age? I believe that is as true as claiming a repudiation made in youth cannot be overcome by faith later in life; which no one who promotes “eternal security” would assert.

So how does that directly relate with “I will remember thier sins no more” Supposedly this verse is used (in Jeremiah) with the new covenant (Christ) Therefore, some protestants think it supports “Once Saved Always Saved”

There are several “I will remember thier sins no more” in the Old Testament. Some Protestants will quote those verses to back eternal security. But the one in Jeremiah is difficult to understand.

 

[rpp]

So how does that directly relate with “I will remember thier sins no more” Supposedly this verse is used (in Jeremiah) with the new covenant (Christ) Therefore, some protestants think it supports “Once Saved Always Saved”

There are several “I will remember thier sins no more” in the Old Testament. Some Protestants will quote those verses to back eternal security. But the one in Jeremiah is difficult to understand.

Clearly, if one dedicates their life to God and seeks His will an desires to follow His commandments, this will apply. But to claim that a man who once claimed to follow the Lord then in later life repudiated that belief is still "saved is not supported. A single Bible verse cannot be taken out of the context of the entire Bible.