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Many denominations/cults will say that you are "saved" by faith, BUT you
must have good works (including avoiding certain sins or amounts of sins) to
maintain your salvation, or else you'll "LOSE" it. Practically, this is no
different than "salvation by works," because IF a sinner believed this at the

moment he allegedly "got saved," then he didn't actually get saved, because
he wasn't trusting Jesus to "save" him, but only to START a PROCESS that
the sinner would have to finish himself.

Some people in bad churches are truly saved, but are taught LATER that they
can "lose it" (often to keep them loyal to the otherwise powerless pastor).

If a person says they believe they can lose their salvation, ask them if they

believed that before or after they were saved. If they believed it before,
assume they are lost and explain salvation in the light of eternal security, and
then encourage them to ask Jesus for eternal salvation, trusting in HIM and
not their own abilities.

NO SELF-MAINTENANCE PROOFTEXTS

Works are not necessary to "maintain" your salvation. Paul called those who
think they are necessary "foolish":

Galatians 3:2-3 "This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by
the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish?
having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?"

We who have been born again "are kept by the power of God" (1 Peter

1:5), not our own power.

ETERNAL SECURITY PROOFTEXTS

BASIC VERSES

In John 6:37b, Jesus said "...him that cometh to me

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I will in no wise cast out."