Once Saved Always Saved

[guanophore]

Thank you for all of your great answers. I think I have enough to prove my point. But I do realize it’s a waste of time. I’ve battled many protestants on Youtube and no matter how hard I hit the person they still didn’t care. Protestants are a thickheaded breed, unfortunately.

It does do good, because it equips you better in the knowledge of your faith.

It is also not helpful to be prejudiced about groups of people. There are many Protestants on this board that are very open to Catholicism, and some Catholics who have fallen away from the faith and do respond when they know the TRuth.

 

[JonathonofOhio]

A Protestant on Youtube told me that once you’re saved no matter what you do you can’t be un-saved. I told this Protestant that Jesus and the apostles highly suggest otherwise in many different verses, but I’m bad at remembering them. Do you guys have any “Old Faithful’s” that you like to whip out when this arises?

Actually your Protestant friend is correct: once you are saved, you cannot lose your salvation, because if you are saved you are in heaven.

Protestants often try to say that ‘being saved’ means you are assured salvation, but anyone with a basic understanding of scripture can see that this is simply not true. In the bible, salvation is the goal, and it is what we are to strive for.

 

[Adam95]

The real problem with this theory is how ridiculous it is: as though a person can get themselves “saved” at some Baptist church, then ten years later become an atheist, poison their wife for the insurance payout, never repent, and Jesus would still say, “Hey, great to see you! Aren’t you glad you ‘done got saved’ that one time?”

I was thinking about this today, as I have many times heard my protestant friends and family speak of someone recently deceased who seemed not to concern his or her self with the God, and mention that they professed faith as a child in Sunday School; therefore, they can comfort in this professing as an assurance that the deceased is in heaven.

It is ridiculous that many have taken the Eternal Security doctrine this far, as Calvin, the most influential proponent of this doctrine, would not have agreed. Calvin’s doctrine of Predestination made the doctrine of Eternal Security a given, but Calvin also believed that the elect would not turn away from their faith. Those who did turn away were not the elect, and the doctrine of Eternal Security did not apply to them.

Personally, I reject Calvin’s Theology. It is astonishing though, how those who claim to be adherents to Calvinism so thoroughly distort it.

 

[ATeutonicKnight]

Actually your Protestant friend is correct: once you are saved, you cannot lose your salvation, because if you are saved you are in heaven.

Protestants often try to say that ‘being saved’ means you are assured salvation, but anyone with a basic understanding of scripture can see that this is simply not true. In the bible, salvation is the goal, and it is what we are to strive for.

Well, it’s like Fr. John Corapi always says: “You’re not saved until your butt is in heaven.”

 

[guanophore]

Well, it’s like Fr. John Corapi always says: “You’re not saved until your butt is in heaven.”