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 PrintableVersion Run to win the prizeLosing your salvation?RUN TO WIN THE PRIZE Can a real Christian fall away and be lost? Don’t the warning passages of Scripture, like Hebrews 6 and 10, imply that those who have trusted Christ can forfeit eternal life? These are classic questions of enormous pastoral importance. In this short book, Tom Schreiner, of Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, USA, carefully exegetes the relevant texts and explains why, though the Arminian position, that salvation can be lost, seems cogent, it does not ultimately hold up to scrutiny. The biblical evidence shows that just as God uses the gospel to call the elect to faith, so he uses the warning passages to keep the elect in the faith so that none of them is ever lost. This is underlined by the fact that Scripture says that those who do walk out on Christ were actually never Christians at all (1 John 2.19, Matthew 7.13,14, etc.). The book is also helpful in that it tells us why perseverance in the faith is not about earning our salvation through endurance or good deeds, nor is it living a perfect Christian life. Those who ‘overcome’ are those who, despite their many failures, pursue an ongoing life of repentance and looking in faith to Christ alone and his imputed righteousness. Well worth reading! John Benton© Evangelicals Now - September 2009 |
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