Security and Sonship in Salvation

DAY 346 CHALLENGE “Believers are eternally secure in their salvation. We cannot lose our salvation because when we come to God and believe, we become his sons (John 1:12–13; Rom. 8:14–23; Gal. 4:3–6; 1 John 3:1). And once you are a son, you can’t cease to be a son.” DEFENSE This presses the concept of sonship beyond its limits and fails to do justice to other things the biblical text indicates. First, the concept of Christian sonship involves a metaphor. We are not children of God the way we are children of our earthly parents. Furthermore, Scripture uses this metaphor in more than on...