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Justin Peters on Perseverance & eternal security

LIVING · REFORMED BAPTIST / DISPENSATIONAL
READ IN A PRIMARY SOURCEAFFIRMS°
STANCE

No — the genuinely saved will certainly persevere

Once a person is regenerated by God's Holy Spirit, he is eternally secure. Salvation is a gift given by God and will never be revoked.
Statement of Faith, Eternal Security ↗

THE POSITION

Eternal security, positional and relational, resting on the giver rather than the believer: salvation is God's gift and will never be revoked. He meets the easy-believism objection head on — those who profess and later walk away showing no evidence of conversion were never genuinely saved, and are false converts rather than lost Christians.

SCRIPTURE
JOHN 10:28 · BSB

28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.

15 OTHERS HOLD THIS

Voddie BauchamCalvinJonathan EdwardsThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithJosh HowertonTim KellerSecond London Baptist ConfessionJohn MacArthurGavin OrtlundJohn OwenJohn PiperR.C. SproulCharles Haddon SpurgeonWestminster ConfessionZwingli
Yes — real apostasy is possibleCHRYSOSTOM · M. HEISER · LUTHER · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · WESLEY
Perseverance is a distinct gift, not given to all the regenerateAQUINAS · AUGUSTINE
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Discernment evangelist whose Clouds Without Water seminar — grown from his Th.M. thesis on Benny Hinn — is the best-known evangelical critique of the Word of Faith movement, and since 2026 senior pastor of a church plant outside Billings, Montana.

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"Justin Peters on Perseverance & eternal security", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/peters/perseverance (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/peters/perseverance).

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