Perseverance Four Ways

To be frank, I don't understand people who read the Bible, claim to believe it, but then also claim that it says that a true Christian can lose his salvation. On the contrary, I see all through the Scriptures that God keeps us by the power of the Holy Spirit, so that a person who is truly born again, as opposed to a mere pretender, is secure in his salvation right up until he faces Jesus in heaven upon death.

Consider, for example, I Peter 1:3-5: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time."

Just look at the number of ways that the Apostle expresses the same thing: the inheritance is imperishable, kept in heaven, guarded by God's power, and through to the end of time. Where is the provision anywhere in that sentence for "if you strive hard enough"? Yet that is exactly what the papist or Arminian wants to insert.

Apostle Peter Preaches