I was reading this article on Fr. Abraham Arganiosa's blog. He mocks the Born Again Christians for our altar call in receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior. He also criticizes the doctrine of eternal security or once saved always saved (OSAS). The worst thing about it is in the comments section when he insulted an Evangelical defender by the code name Comb@tron.
Well, that's typical for Fr. Abe. Obviously, Fr. Abe does not know the concept of the doctrine of Eternal Security. He attacks these out of ignorance and he uses insults and ad hominems to catch the attention of the readers.
Eternal Security means the sovereign God will preserve his saved elect up to the very end. It does not mean the elect is perfect upon salvation for God continuously transforms them to be better. The elect will sin and sometimes fall, but since God is sovereign He will restore them.
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. John 6:39
Now, like Fr. Abe many Roman Catholics do not believe that. Fr. Abe went to great lengths to even to mock OSAS. Little does he know that it is of benefit to him that he should believe in OSAS. Why? Because there is one person whom Roman Catholics must apply this doctrine, otherwise a particular belief is compromised. This one person is the star witness in the Roman Catholic Church for the doctrine of Eternal Security.
And this person is no other than (drum roll)... the Roman Catholic Mary!
Take note that I wrote "Roman Catholic" Mary as opposed to the biblical Mary (they are different). How is the Roman Catholic Mary the star witness of OSAS? Read their catechism on the Immaculate Conception:
CCC #492 - The "splendor of an entirely unique holiness" by which Mary is "enriched from the first instant of her conception" comes wholly from Christ: she is "redeemed, in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the merits of her Son". The Father blessed Mary more than any other created person "in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places" and chose her "in Christ before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before him in love".
We all know that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23) which leads to Hell. The Roman Catholic Mary was preserved from all stains of original sin from the time of her conception. Therefore, she is always saved! Let's read further their Catechism:
CCC #493 - By the grace of God Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life long.
The Roman Catholic has eternal security! Isn't that amazing? The very doctrine they refuse to believe is applied to their Mary who remained free of personal sin all her life.
Roman Catholic apologists argue in Luke 1:47 that Mary called God her Savior because she was saved by anticipation. They give an illustration like "Well, she is like a person who is about to fall off a cliff. Unlike the rest of us whom God saved while falling from a cliff before hitting the bottom, Mary was saved by God by preventing her to even reach the edge of the cliff before the fall." The point of this is that Roman Catholics acknowledges that Mary too was saved. But since she is free of personal sin, she is forever saved. Isn't that OSAS?
If the Roman Catholics do not believe in eternal security, I don't know what else you can call their unbiblical Immaculate Conception.
Well, that's typical for Fr. Abe. Obviously, Fr. Abe does not know the concept of the doctrine of Eternal Security. He attacks these out of ignorance and he uses insults and ad hominems to catch the attention of the readers.
Eternal Security means the sovereign God will preserve his saved elect up to the very end. It does not mean the elect is perfect upon salvation for God continuously transforms them to be better. The elect will sin and sometimes fall, but since God is sovereign He will restore them.
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. John 6:39
Now, like Fr. Abe many Roman Catholics do not believe that. Fr. Abe went to great lengths to even to mock OSAS. Little does he know that it is of benefit to him that he should believe in OSAS. Why? Because there is one person whom Roman Catholics must apply this doctrine, otherwise a particular belief is compromised. This one person is the star witness in the Roman Catholic Church for the doctrine of Eternal Security.
And this person is no other than (drum roll)... the Roman Catholic Mary!
Take note that I wrote "Roman Catholic" Mary as opposed to the biblical Mary (they are different). How is the Roman Catholic Mary the star witness of OSAS? Read their catechism on the Immaculate Conception:
CCC #492 - The "splendor of an entirely unique holiness" by which Mary is "enriched from the first instant of her conception" comes wholly from Christ: she is "redeemed, in a more exalted fashion, by reason of the merits of her Son". The Father blessed Mary more than any other created person "in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places" and chose her "in Christ before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless before him in love".
We all know that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23) which leads to Hell. The Roman Catholic Mary was preserved from all stains of original sin from the time of her conception. Therefore, she is always saved! Let's read further their Catechism:
CCC #493 - By the grace of God Mary remained free of every personal sin her whole life long.
The Roman Catholic has eternal security! Isn't that amazing? The very doctrine they refuse to believe is applied to their Mary who remained free of personal sin all her life.
Roman Catholic apologists argue in Luke 1:47 that Mary called God her Savior because she was saved by anticipation. They give an illustration like "Well, she is like a person who is about to fall off a cliff. Unlike the rest of us whom God saved while falling from a cliff before hitting the bottom, Mary was saved by God by preventing her to even reach the edge of the cliff before the fall." The point of this is that Roman Catholics acknowledges that Mary too was saved. But since she is free of personal sin, she is forever saved. Isn't that OSAS?
If the Roman Catholics do not believe in eternal security, I don't know what else you can call their unbiblical Immaculate Conception.
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