Eternal Security-Perseverance of the Saints

The Category Eternal Security-Perseverance of the Saints hold works on how our salvation is secure in Christ.

Note that the dual names are how people in two camps see the issue. Perseverance of the Saints is a distinctly Calvinist/Reformed terminology.

Eternal Security is a non-Calvinistic way of referring to the same general concept. Under this concept, a person that is truly saved does not need to work about losing his salvation if he sins. His trust in God, and knowledge of God’s work of sanctifying him is active in his life, and these factors give him confidence that if he sins, it is under the blood of Christ.

Under the Reformed/Calvinistic concept, they believe in an assertion that the saints that are elected to salvation will continue in that same belief until they died and go to heaven. The concept gets distorted though because although that belief is true, many Calvinists use the perseverance doctrine as an excuse to sin. No matter what sin they do (gravity) or quantity of sin, they are elected so God has to save them. This attitude is non-biblical, and true Christians will persist in living for Christ and fighting sin, and they will not trust in their election to get them into heaven while they hold a lawless lifestyle.