John 6:39-40: “And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.  For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, [...]

John 6:37: “All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.” Geisler says: “Not only is everyone who comes saved, but everyone who is saved is saved permanently!  God’s gift is a forever salvation.” 1 The problem with using this verse as a proof [...]

John 5:24: “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life.  He does not come into judgement, but has passed from death to life.” Geisler says of this verse: “…those who truly believe now can be certain now that they will be in Heaven later.  Everlasting life is a present [...]

John 3:18: “Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” Geisler says: “The plain sense of this text is that if one believes now, he is not condemned (lost) now and will not be condemned [...]

John 3:15: “That whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” GotQuestions.org says of this verse: “John 3:15 states that whoever believes in Jesus Christ will “have eternal life.”  If you believe in Christ today and have eternal life, but lose it tomorrow, then it was never “eternal” at all.  Hence if you lose your [...]

Ecclesiastes 3:14: “I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.” Geisler says of this verse: “Scripture’s application of this principle to salvation (cf. Eph. 1:4) results in the doctrine of eternal security.  If what [...]

Job 19:25-26: “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God.” Geisler says of this verse: “Job was certain of two things: (1) that his Redeemer lived, and (2) that [...]

Commencing shortly will be a series of posts examining the passages of Scripture that OSAS advocates use to substantiate their belief in unconditional eternal security.  The vast majority of the interpretations from the OSAS point of view come from Norman Geisler, in volume three of his Systematic Theology.  At this stage, there appears to be [...]