Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07050 This question touches the foundations of Christian assurance, and it deserves a direct answer: no, a genuinely born-again believer cannot ultimately and finally fall away from salvation. But reaching that conclusion responsibly requires engaging honestly with the passages that have led many sincere people to a different answer. The Foundation of Eternal Security…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07013 The question of how a person is saved is the most urgent question any human being can face, and the good news of the gospel is that Scripture answers it with remarkable clarity. God has not hidden the way of salvation. The provision is real, the invitation is genuine, and the terms are…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 07019 Few theological questions carry more pastoral weight than this one. For many believers, the fear that salvation might somehow be lost produces an exhausting, joyless religious life in which assurance is always conditional on recent performance. Scripture, read carefully, addresses this fear with remarkable directness, and the answer it gives is not a…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07017 Regeneration is the miracle at the heart of conversion. It is what makes the entire Christian life possible. Without it, there is no genuine faith, no real repentance, no lasting change, and no spiritual perception of God. It is the point at which God acts to bring spiritually dead people to spiritual life,…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07020 The question of whether a believer can lose their salvation is one of the most personally significant doctrinal questions a Christian can face. It touches the very nerve of assurance, and how it is answered shapes the whole tenor of the Christian life. Is the believer’s relationship with God genuinely permanent, or is…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion Q07094 Few theological questions carry more pastoral weight than this one. Get it wrong in one direction and you have added a human work to the gospel, corrupting the message of grace. Get it wrong in the other direction and you have effectively disconnected baptism from any serious obligation, reducing it to a personal…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 7046 Union with Christ is one of the richest and most comprehensive concepts in the New Testament, and it functions as the theological foundation on which virtually every other aspect of salvation rests. It is also among the most underappreciated. Believers who have sat under solid Bible teaching for years can sometimes be unfamiliar…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 7047 The phrase “in Christ” appears in Paul’s letters more frequently than almost any other expression, and yet it tends to wash over readers without registering its full weight. It is not filler language or pious decoration. It is Paul’s most concentrated shorthand for the most fundamental thing that is true of a person…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7041 “The perseverance of the saints” is a technical term from Reformed and Calvinist theology where it forms the fifth point in what has become known as the five points of Calvinism. But the underlying question it addresses, whether genuine believers can lose their salvation and what the relationship is between present faith and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 7043 Did Christ die for every human being who has ever lived, or only for those who would ultimately believe? The question of the extent of the atonement is one of the most theologically significant in Christian history, and the answer has practical consequences that reach all the way into how the gospel is…