whatsalvation is lost or not? This is a question that generally has many unfounded answers from Christians who are only based on experience, their own belief and faith in themselves. For their part, theologians have contradicted many of their positions, therefore this issue has created considerable controversy, even among Christians of different denominations. Here we will show you the truth about the greatest gift that has been given to humanity since the beginning of time: “salvation”.
Is salvation lost?
The answer to that question biblically is a resounding, clear, emphatic, joyful and glorious “No”. A born again person cannot die. God does not say: “you behaved well, take salvation”, “you sinned, now give me my salvation again”. It sounds absurd! Certain? I’ll give some biblical thought here, trying to be as textual as possible to explain the truth about whether or not salvation is lost. There are three important things to keep in mind:
1. God did not give us temporary life
The life that is imparted in the new birth is precisely eternal life. “This is the testimony that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son” (1 John 5:11). So he did not give us temporary life, but eternal life. We are already participating in the life of the age to come.
“If you are called, you cannot lose your salvation”
2. The called are sanctified and are saved
The kind of calling that Paul talks about in Romans 8:30 is the calling of Lazarus, by Jesus, from the grave: “Lazarus, I know that you are dead. Now get out” (see John 11:43). The call creates life, and that is what happened to all Christians: God’s sovereign call created life. That means there is a promise attached to the call.
Here are some texts that show this connection. First Thessalonians 5:23–24 says: “May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely…at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; he surely he will.” So the logic here is: if you have been called, God is faithful and he will keep you for the last day.
3. Preservation of the predestined
Many people think that eternal security is like a vaccine.. They think, “When I was 6 years old, I prayed and God vaccinated my arm.” “Therefore, I can’t get the disease of damnation.” And I’ll take you to the end, complete to the last day.
Here it is Jeremiah 32:40 which says: “I will make an everlasting pact with them, I will not stop doing them good.” “And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they do not fall away.” So, the new covenant that Jesus bought with his blood is a covenant of preservation. It is not just security in some mechanical way. It is preservation in an active way. God is active in my life.
“Perseverance in faith is the evidence that we have been made part of Christ.”
When I ask people, “How do you know you’ll be a Christian when you wake up in the morning?” many people are a bit surprised by the question. They respond, “Oh, because, you know, it’s just like being human.” No, it’s not like a human being. You will wake up a Christian tomorrow morning because God is faithful. God will awaken you and awaken in you the faith of him.
The problem of legalism
The Bible is very clear, what happens is that some people are still based on the law, that law that the old testament talks about, the law that had to be fully complied with in order to obtain salvation. The rules imposed there were very strict, that is, if you failed to comply with just one of these, you could not be saved. For example, eating drowned animals was considered unclean (sin), while a woman not leaving the camp when she was menstruating was also considered a sin.
Deuteronomy 23:9 it highlights many of the things I am explaining. Some say that you can lose your salvation if you commit a sin, and the reality is that if you did, none of us could be saved. For example, in my years going to church, I have yet to see the first Christian leave his house and stay out for a week simply because he wants to relieve himself or has his period (in case of the woman). Nothing more for this little detail and everyone lost their salvation.
He who believes he is saved by the law rejects the grace of Christ
The belief that salvation is lost is a problem that legalism has created. Legalism seeks God’s justice through human efforts, while faith places trust solely in the sacrifice of Christ (Romans 5:6-9). By seeking salvation through human efforts, we are throwing away the grace that Christ bestowed upon us. (Romans 11:6, Galatians 5:4). Only .
In the aforementioned verse from the book of Galatians, it says that if you justify yourself with the law, you are falling from grace, that is, you are saying that grace is useless. Yes, literally; you are saying that grace is of no avail and that Christ’s sacrifice was of no avail either. Being justified by the law is not the right thing to do because if we were saved by the law, then why did Christ die? Did Christ spend all that on the cross just to make a show of Christianity? It doesn’t make sense, does it?
Galatians 2:21 says that if justice were obtained by law, then Christ’s sacrifice was in vain. This verse supports what I said earlier. The reality is that God was so merciful that he sent his only-begotten son to sacrifice because he knew that with the law no one would be able to be saved, it was too difficult for someone to obtain salvation that way.
Thanks to this sacrifice, we have been freed from slavery and justified by grace. However, there are people who still do not want to get rid of legalism because they believe in their own perfection and not in that which comes from God. Legalism Has Caused Boasting, has caused even Christians to trust in themselves and not in the power of God. Humility has gone to the background because everyone believes they are perfect. This, in turn, has caused them to judge each other, and people to forget that God’s mercy and forgiveness exists.
In Titus 3:5-6 It emphasizes that man can never be saved by his good works, because sin dwells in him. Man will be saved only by the mercy of God, by the price that he was paid with the shedding of the blood of Christ on that cross that took all our sins with it and justified us to make us saved.
So now I ask you, is salvation lost? Do you think that God, being perfect, would give us a gift and then take it away from us? Or do you believe that you can be saved through your “good works or acts of justice”? Do you mean that Christ went through all those awful things on a cross simply because God wanted to be noticed? I think everything is more than clear here.
So people who turn away from Christ are still saved?
The position that contradicts the issue that salvation is lost, creates a key question that people “Well”, what happens with the people who are in the church? They have been or elderly, and it seems that they were saved in the university. Five years later, and they’ve thrown it all away. Some of them die in that condition. “What about them?” I think there are two key verses that people should think about a lot. First John 2:19:
“They came from us, but they were not from us; because if they had been from us, they would have continued with us”. “But they left, so that it is clear that they are not all from us”.
Salvation is not earned, it is given by grace (it is a gift given to us by accepting Christ), and therefore cannot be lost. When perseverance is not met, then we were never in safety. Here is the key: the guarantee, therefore, is not automatic. It is a security rooted in our trust in a covenant keeper, a God who gave his Son on behalf of sinners so that when we look at him, he testifies to us that we are children of God and that we are saved by believing in him. .