Is Christian Security Conditional or Unconditional ?

1. We are saved by the grace of God through faith and kept by God through faith.

2. The Bible does teach that the Christian is secure.
a. 1 Peter 1:5 Kept by the power of God through faith.
b. Rom.8:31 If God be for us who can be against us?
c. John 10:29 No man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand.
d. Psalms 31:23 The Lord preserves the faithful.

3. All covenants with God, as demonstrated in the Old Testament, are twofold.
First with the divine promise of God
second with human responsibility to obey.

4. Jesus taught that the fruits of this life indicate the condition of the heart, "wherefore by their fruit you shall know them."

5. Faith in the Bible is presented as a present faith with a present possession, "He that believes on the Son has everlasting life; and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God, abides on him." John 3:36

6. We possess eternal life, only as we possess Jesus. "I am the way the truth and the life" John 14:6
Eternal life is not a part of us like our natural appetites and affections, but it is the in dwelling of Jesus that gives us eternal life. 1 John 5:12

7. Each Christian believer is united to Christ and becoming a partaker of the divine nature, and bearing fruit of the spirit.

8. Sin separates us from God, causing a broken union and lost fellowship. Continual disobedience is proof that eternal life has been lost. "If any man has not the spirit of Christ he is none of his" Romans 8:9

9. Example : The prodigal son broke fellowship with the family and the father. His father declared that he was dead, and lost.
Eph. 2:1 "dead in trespasses and sin."
Disobedience brings deadness to the soul.

10. Obedience is God's command. The children of God are obedient.
The born-again Christian does not willfully sin against God.
"He that commits sin is of the devil , for the devil sinned from the beginning, whoever is born of God does not commit sin for his seed remains in him: and he cannot sin because he is born of God." 1 John3:8-9

11. Some ask, "Can a man be unborn?" But the better question is "Can a man die?"
If "Once a son, always a son." were true, no one could ever become a child of God because
before we were saved, the devil was our father, and we were children of the devil.1 John3:10

12. Those believing in unconditional eternal security fail to realize that spiritual birth and physical birth are entirely different.
Physically we're born without our will being involved, but spiritually we must willingly surrender ourselves to Christ to be born-again.

13. The word " If" is a conditional word.
Jesus said, "if a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is whithered"
"if you abide in me and my words abide you, you will ask what you will, and it shall be done for you."
"If you continue in his goodness: otherwise you shall be cut off"
"we are partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end"
"the just shall live by Faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall no pleasure in him."

14. The apostle Paul recognized the possibility of becoming a castaway-
"I keep my body under submission, lest by any means, when I preached to others, I myself should become a castaway." 1 Cor.9:27

15. Peter 2:20-21 "for if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again and tangled in it, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they had known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."
If unconditional security were correct, the latter end of these could not be worse than the first, because no matter what they do, their salvation would still be secure.

16. Those believing in unconditional eternal security claim that God's covenant's bind him unconditionally to keep the person who once believed.
But an unconditional covenant would make God changeable and would damage his divine character by making him an accomplice to sin and disobedience.

17. If unconditional eternal security was embodied in the death of Christ on the cross, then none could be lost, since Christ died for all.
But the atonement does not deal with future sins, and erase those that are not repented of and unconfessed.

18. God is holy, and he is not a respector of persons.
To say that some will be eternally saved and others eternally lost by the decree of God, irrespective of what they do, is to make God responsible for the lost souls.
Unconditional election and predestination are not in harmony with the divine character of God, as revealed in the Bible.
"God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" 2 Peter 3:9
God in his wisdom has predestined that repenting and believing sinners shall have mercy and that believers in the Lord Jesus will become more Christlike.

19. Unconditional security would mean that we can be holy in worship, but unholy and our daily lives, our spirit serving God ,and our flesh serving the devil at same time, even though the Bible teaches that we cannot serve two masters.

Summary : I understand why many believe the "Once saved , always saved" doctrine.
We crave security in our relationship of faith.
We are secure according to the scriptures shared in #2.
We can trust in the seal placed upon us by the Holy Spirit , but it is conditional on our obedience and faith.
I realize it is possible for a Christian to sin, but we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus himself ,who extends grace and forgiveness to us.
All we have to do is confess and repent (Turn away) of it. God does not cast us off easily but keeps calling us back to Himself.
Christians do not willfully continue in sin.
Young Christians sometimes have a besetting sin that they continually battle against, and sometimes yield to, until they overcome through the consecration of themselves totally to Christ. But they still do not live a lifestyle of sinning because His seed (Holy Spirit) is helping them submit.
It is normal to live victoriously without sinning by walking in the Spirit daily.