DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL SECURITY - A DOCTRINE OF demons

Dear friend, today I came across a person who says he is a Christian but his understanding of Christianity and the Word of God leaves a lot to be desired.

I came to a barbing saloon in my neighbourhood to have a haircut and while waiting my turn, I was sharing with one of the saloon workers my encounter with a lady I met minutes earlier at a fuel station who was trying to sell me audio CDs.

I had told the lady I don't buy hip hop music and she said she also sold Gospel, to which I responded that I don't buy pirated CDs either. 

The lady told me she did not sell pirated CDs and when I asked her the price, she told me an amount that made me know the CDs were pirated and I told her so.

She then told me she sources her CDs from the same place with the people I buy from in shops and that their price was more expensive than hers. She further told me she was a Christian too and she was heaven bound.

I never uttered a word again as she spoke and later walked away from me. This was the experience I was sharing with the barbing saloon staff and I told him the lady in question was putting on hair attachment, trousers and selling hip hop music and telling me she was heaven-bound.

To back up my points with God's Word, I started sharing Scriptures with the saloon staff like Deuteronomy 22:5 where God commands men and women to abstain from each other's clothing as it was an abomination to God.

I was still sharing a Scripture from 1 Corinthians 11:2 and upwards where it talks about women covering their hairs while praying when the man I mentioned at the beginning of this post cut in to ask me to read verse 16 of the same chapter where it is stated "But if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God."

Based on this single verse, this "Christian" who told me he was a minister of the Gospel went ahead to claim that what we put on our bodies does not matter to God but our spirits. 

He further went on to claim that Deuteronomy 22:5 does not apply in today's Christianity and that men and women of that time wore the same clothes and that that bible verse said women should not wear clothes ALREADY WORN by men and vice-versa.

This fellow spoke and sounded very sure of what he was saying whilst claiming that it is because preachers of the Gospel of Christ Jesus were peddling a lot of falsehood that made him take time to study the bible to find out things for himself and that I should take time to study God's Word so I could pass the right message to others.

I then left him for a while to have my hair cut and while sitting down I was meditating on his comments and my conscience did not let me rest and I felt a strong urging to go back to discuss with this "Christian" friend over his understanding and interpretation of the Word of God.

When I was done with my hair cut, I went back to this fellow who was still around. This time, I took him up on his idea that the body cannot defile the spirit and that God was only interested in our spirits.

It was during this second conversation, which later involved another Christian, that I now understood the kind of person I was dealing with because he said so many sad things some of which I would list below:

(1) In response to a question I asked, he said if a Christian (by his definition one who has confessed and accepted Christ Jesus and lives according to God's Word) committed fornication, such person would still go to heaven since the Holy Spirit has been inputted to the person immediately he or she confessed and accepted Jesus Christ.

(2) He said God's Holy Spirit NEVER DEPARTS from a Christian who commits wrongdoing or sin.

(3) He said a liar is not one who has told only one lie and repents and that the person has to tell several lies to be labelled a liar. When I quoted 1 John 5:17a that all unrighteousness is sin, he said no.

(4) He said Christians are not called to be sin conscious but spirit conscious.

(5) He said a sin conscious person is always thinking of sin and is trapped by the sin mentality and would soon start to practise it.

Dear friend, these are some of the things I heard from this fellow and each time I tried to draw an inference from his statements he would deny saying he never said that and that I was misquoting him.

Suffice to say that even when the third Christian agreed with me and quoting 1 Corinthians 6:19 that the body was the temple of the Holy Spirit and that Christians defile their Spirit by defiling their bodies as God's Word clearly stated therein, he still did not agree.

Even when I told him it was Paul who wrote the Scripture reference in 1 Corinthians 6:9, the fellow said it was James and when I still insisted it was Paul, he insisted it was James.

Interestingly enough, he never showed us one Scripture to back anything he was saying but I quoted and read some Scripture passages outline above.

Dear friend, you may by now be wondering what all this true story has to do with the topic of today's post, and I will tell shortly.

If you take time again to read what I have stated here, it should be clear to you that anyone who is not grounded in Christianity and the Word of God and who listens to my "Christian" friend I met today would definitely be misled by wrong teaching.

Now, outlined in point (1) above as stated by this fellow is what is known as the Doctrine of Eternal Security - a false doctrine and one of many such doctrine of demons that Paul wrote to Timothy in God's Word in 1 Timothy 4:1-2.

The doctrine of eternal security teaches that once anyone has given his or her life to Christ Jesus and is now a Christian, the person would land FINALLY in heaven regardless of any other thing the person does afterwards here on earth, whether sinful or not.

How true is this, dear friend? Well, our Lord Jesus Christ makes it clear that not everyone who calls Him Lord would see His Kingdom but those who do the will of God the Father Almighty  (Matthew 7:21-23).

I do not need to belabour the point of Jesus' Word, dear friend, because Jesus is the Word of God and whatever He says is final regardless of what anyone thinks, does, says or reasons.

The worst thing that can happen to any human being is to have the opportunity of knowing Jesus Christ and then afterwards going back to sin. 

As Peter says in God's Word, it would have been better if the person never knew Christ Jesus at all than to know Christ and then return to sin (2 Peter 2:20-21).

Dear friend, these two scripture passages are a clear indication that the doctrine of eternal security is not only deceptive and destructive but a doctrine of demons that would land anyone who believes it in HELL unless the person repents and returns to Christ Jesus.

Please do not allow yourself to be deceived. Ensure to always study God's Word to equip yourself to answer all who ask for the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:16) and to help you by God's Holy Spirit to counter destructive heresies from the pit of hell.

 May the good Lord bless you as you heed His Word today, act on it and share with others in Jesus' Precious Name, Amen.

Gabriel Ama.