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Voddie Baucham on Perseverance & eternal security

B. 1969 · REFORMED BAPTIST
STANDARD SCHOLARLY ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°
STANCE

No — the genuinely saved will certainly persevere

THE POSITION

Perseverance of the saints.

WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONNo quotations, and copyright is not the reason: this map quotes MacArthur, Heiser and Sproul at length, all modern authors in copyright. No primary-source pass has been run on him and nothing in this repo records one. The summaries here restate the stance rather than paraphrase a source, and the millennium cell says outright that it is not known with confidence. These nine stay at established and unknown until someone reads him.

SCRIPTURE
JOHN 10:28-29 · BSB

28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand.

18 OTHERS HOLD THIS

CalvinJonathan EdwardsThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithCharles Grandison FinneyBilly GrahamJosh HowertonTim KellerSecond London Baptist ConfessionJohn MacArthurGavin OrtlundJohn OwenJustin PetersJohn PiperR.C. SproulCharles Haddon SpurgeonWestminster ConfessionGeorge WhitefieldZwingli
Yes — real apostasy is possibleCHRYSOSTOM · M. HEISER · LUTHER · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · WESLEY
Perseverance is a distinct gift, not given to all the regenerateAQUINAS · AUGUSTINE · JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Pastor, apologist, and dean of theology at African Christian University, Zambia. Reformed, cessationist, and strongly family-discipleship focused.

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