Does Ezekiel 3:20-21; 18:24-26; 33:12-13, 18 teach that believers can lose their salvation? The clearer and more authoritative texts must interpret the less clear texts. Ezekiel is not equating “righteousness” with salvation (the way Paul does in the NT). The new covenant makes it abundantly clear that it is Christ’s righteousness and perfect obedience that guarantee eternal and “unlosable” salvation for all those whom the Father gave Him before the foundation of the world. All who are united to Christ by saving faith have His perfect righteousness imputed to them. Therefore, the only way they can lose “their” righteousness is if Christ loses His. The doctrine of union with Christ guarantees this. The NT clearly and unambiguously teaches that all who are justified will be glorified. God will not lose one of His sheep (i.e. elect), for Jesus must bring them to the Father.
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Ryan Case has a passion to see the lost ushered into the Kingdom of God, as well as to see Christ's redeemed grow in all knowledge and grace. His 'heroes of the faith' include John Piper, D.A. Carson, and C.H. Spurgeon. Ryan graduated from the Toronto Baptist Seminary and was...