Christian Salvation: Can you lose it?
In order to intelligently discuss this topic we must first understand what salvation is.
For the purpose of this discussion therefore, I’m defining salvation as:
“The condition of having eternal life abiding within your regenerated spirit from the moment you repent and accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.”
That’s the salvation this article will discuss.
Friends, the principle that excludes a person from saving himself is the very same principle that excludes him from making himself become unsaved!
You cannot change your nature, neither from sinner to saint nor from saint to sinner!
The Bible teaches us that there are 3 levels of salvation; spirit, soul and body. For more details you can see my article by the same name, but for now we must understand that the foundation of salvation is the born again experience.
During this process the individual’s nature is transformed from Adamic to Christlike and ceases to be merely human but now incorporates the divine. It’s this divine aspect of the new nature which guarantees him or her entrance into heaven.
Therefore, salvation, as complex as it is, is totally based on the validity of the born again experience and the accompanying nature change.
If I ask the typical born again Christian if someone can save themselves the answer is going to be a resounding “NO” and if I further inquire as to why this is so the answer is going to come back, we are not saved by our own works but by faith in Jesus Christ.
Our own works cannot save us; every Christian knows this.
But the thing that the average Christian doesn’t do is follow this concept to its logical conclusion. If your own works or actions cannot save you, how can your own works or actions un-save you?
If you don’t have the power to save yourself, from where did you get the power to un-save yourself?
Remembering that the foundation of salvation is a nature change, the question is; if we don’t have the power to change our nature from human to divine, from where did we get the power to change our nature from divine back to human?
The truth is:
God never gave us that power – Either way!
He left that to Himself and He sealed it when He said, “The gifts and calling of God are without repentance,” Rom. 11:29.
He left nothing to chance!
