The folly of a conditional salvation

There are those that suppose that once salvation is received, it can be subsequently lost. There are also those who automatically suppose that those who have received salvation, but have a low level of sanctification, were never saved in the first place.

 

Both are wrong.

 

Both have too low a view and understanding of sin.

 

If you'll pardon the redundancy, sin is egregiously heinous. Words cannot describe it. It is diabolical. It's destructive power is ineffable. Sin is so terrible, so ghastly, that one pinprick of it can destroy the planet. Just one drop, one particle of sin, one hair-breadth of sin is enough to wreck cosmic judgment and retribution.

 

We are not dealing with a tepid substance. You cannot water sin down to the level of a mildly contagious common cold. You cannot euphemize sin to make it moderately harmful.

 

This stuff called sin is overwhelming dangerous. Sin is like handling the most nuclear-active substance known to man.

 

Every believer has some amount of sin in their life, post their moment of receiving salvation. There is no Christian who has lived faultlessly since his or her moment of salvation. The problem with sin, is its power. The believer who has an ounce of sin is in no better position - salvation wise - than the believer who has a pound of sin.

 

Either Jesus saves the soul from the effect and power of sin; or He does not. Let not the Christian holding an ounce of nuclear-active material be heard to say he is safer than the Christian holding a pound of nuclear-active material. Either Jesus saves the Christian entirely, comprehensively, totally and utterly from sin; or He does not.

 

I choose to believe in the gospel that states that Jesus Christ saves sinners entirely on the strength of His own death and resurrection without any sort of recourse to the works and efforts of man, whether before or after the moment of salvation. Even the greatest life lived as a Christian has enough sin in it to produce an atom bomb of judgment that is powerful enough to blow this universe to pieces seven times over. So let not the Christian who has enough sin to destory the universe 25 times over pronounce the Christian who has enough sin to blow up the universe 75 times over as someone who is not worthy of Jesus' salvation.