No issue is bigger in the church it seems than this one , I have seen people on both sides of the fence on this issue and they provide scripture for there side of the argument . I will make a few points and leave you with a passage of scripture . The Bible never says that you lose your Salvation , passages like Galations 5:4 say "fall from grace" , not from Salvation and to be honest in that one Paul is talking about how the Galations after receiving the gospel of Jesus Christ (You know saved by grace through faith) , had let some people come in and tell them that they had to follow the law to either be saved or keep there salvation (which is funny because people that use fall from Grace to say you can lose your salvation are actually guilty of trying to make people do the same thing that Paul is fighting here) , but notice he doesn't say that they loss there Salvation , if anything he says they have defeated themselves and made Christ ineffective , but he never says they are now condemned nor does he say that they have lost Salvation , just grace , and he never said they couldn't repent and get back into Grace . This is the major problem with the passages that are used to say that someone can lose Salvation none of them say that a person loses Salvation , John 15 is a another example people say that is says that if you fall out of the vine you lose your Salvation , no where there does it say that , it actually is talking about how apart from abiding in Christ you can DO nothing , do would be an action word and that the branches that stop abiding are burned hmmm..... to me it sounds similar to the judgement seat of christ where works that were not done for Christ are burned ......... [If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames. 1 cor 3:15]
The point is it never says that Salvation is loss , as to "security" It says in John more than once that a believer will never perish and I will give just one example here :
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand”
(John 10:27-29).
Now people can argue whatever they want , they could say it's conditional and that you can jump out of his hand or whatever but they miss a part before the hand where he says they shall NEVER perish. That is a key and a promise from God (who can never lie) . He doesn't say that they might not perish , nor does he say "as long as they believe they won't perish" , nope he says they will NEVER , NEVER , NEVER perish . The definition of never is :
1. at no time; not ever
2. certainly not; by no means; in no case
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