Is it possible first to become a genuine Christian and then to lose everything after all? To this question Paul, in Romans 5-8, gives the emphatic answer “No!” Jesus himself says in John 10:27-29, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me, for my Father has given them to me, and he is more powerful than anyone else. No one can snatch them from the Father’s hand."
In the end it is going to come down to the central fact of our identity. We are sons and daughters. No one and nothing can steal us from the Father. No one and nothing can make us not sons and daughters.
Can Sons & Daughters Lose Their Salvation?
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