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Early Church Fathers on the Eucharist; The Faith Needed in Evolution; But one final warning. The earliest Christians understood salvation differently than many today do. May 9, 2012 By OC 1 Comment. While it is true most if not just about all of the church fathers agreed that one could lose one's salvation it is ridiculous to state that no one believed in eternal security before Calvin. Church Fathers on Eternal Security. The early Christians did not believe in the doctrine known as eternal security, or “once saved, always saved.” Here are some typical quotations from their writings: We ought therefore, brethren, carefully to inquire concerning our salvation. However, for all the discussion I’ve provided here, I’ve done very little work on the views of the early church regarding these theological issues. Islam; Calvinism; Zionism; Verses in Context; 99 Names and Titles of Allah Compared to Jesus.

So that’s kind of a double standard there. What we find in the writings of the early Fathers is a consistent voice in early Christian life and thought affirming the indissoluble necessity of faith in our Lord and interior conversion that must show itself in a life of holiness. 15. 15 Luther held to a linear view of conversion. With all of that in mind, I want to give you some quotes from the ECF’s regarding one tenant of Calvinism – “Perseverance of the Saints”. The big point we are building up to here is that the early church fathers DID NOT believe in eternal torment.

Predestination and Free Will: The Church Fathers I’ve been heavily involved in the subject of predestination and free will this summer (a part of the Calvinist-Arminian debate). In 1998, Hendrickson Publishers printed A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs: A Reference Guide to More than 700 Topics Discussed by the Early Church Fathers. Some Christians believe that if you hold to eternal security, you are purposely promoting a license to sin.On the other hand, some Christians believe that if you don't believe in eternal security, you have to keep your salvation by works. The Early Church Fathers simply reflected the clearest teachings of the Bible related to the nature of Hell. In another thread, I posted, Proponents of the 16th century doctrine of eternal security, when reading the Early Church Fathers, read them with the same 16th century misconception that a Christian cannot lose his salvation and they read into the passages that they are reading their own personal theology—a theology that was totally absent from the Church till the 16th Century. Arminius and conditional security. Jacobus Arminius (1560–1609) arrived at the same conclusion in his own readings of the early church fathers. May 27, 2020 Heresies, Islam, Our Blog 0.