The Believer's Conditional Security
It has become my considered opinion that part of the delusion of the Third Wave is facilitated, not only by certain doctrines in Arminianism as is commonly thought, but also by certain doctrines of Calvinism (Once Saved Always Saved). Both doctrinal systems have fatal flaws. I recommend the 801 page book, "The Believer's Conditional Security" by Daniel Corner to bring some balance back to all the heavy emphasis on OSAS in many ministries today. It is my hope that this book will remind Christians that salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. In short, God knows who has been saved from beginning to end. We, as created beings, cannot know the final salvation outcome for anyone except for ourselves as we continue in faith believing, though we can rightly discern their current condition by their doctrine and fruit (Jn. 15:20, 2 Tim. 3:12, 2 pet. 2:7-8, Rom. 6:21, Lk. 8:21, Jam. 2:14, Gal. 1:8-9, ! Cor. 15:1-4, 1 Pet. 4:4, 2 Cor. 6:17-18, Jn. 8:32-36, Rom. 6:16-18). We must "believe" (continuous tense in the Greek in many passages) till the end. Many OSAS teachers promote a "grace without the need for continued faith" and a "salvation based on a past moment of belief" thereby teaching Christians not to really fear God's judgement on their continued habitual sins and lack of faith. This has brought a number of false interpretations of Scripture, and an ignorance of the true grace teachings of Jesus and the Apostles. One of these false Calvinistic teachings is that believers "can never fall away" (Heb. 6:4-6, Mark 14:27, 2 Pet. 1:10, 1 Cor. 10:12) or "be cut off" (Rom. 11:22) in opposition to clear teaching in Scripture. This causes Christians to not take unrepentant immorality, idolatry, false teachings, false prophesy and the false anointing of the Third Wave as seriously as they should. This is because many OSAS teachers claim that "God will never allow believers to be deceived" even though the Bible includes dire warnings to believers against being deceived by false teachers (2 Pet. 2:1, Luke 21:8, 2 Cor. 11:13, Mt. 24:5,11,24, Eph. 5:6). Another of the false teachings based on OSAS (this is my opinion, not necessarily Dan Corner's) is that believers cannot be demonized at all, which is contrary to both Biblical examples of demonization of believers (Job 1:8-9; 2:3; 2:7, 1Sa 16:14-16, 18:10, 19:9, Matt. 15:22-28, Matt. 16:22-23, Mark 1:23, Luke 9:52-56, Luke 13:11-16, John 6:70-71, 13:27 Acts 5:1-11, Acts 8:9-24, 2 Cor. 12:7, Gal. 3:1, 1 Tim. 1:19-20) and Biblical teaching to not give the devil a foothold or to allow the sin nature to control us (Eph. 4:25-27, 1 Cor 5:1-5, 2 Cor 2:10-11, 2 Cor. 11:3-4, 1 Tim. 4:1-2, 2 Tim. 2:24-26). Read the online excerpts from the book ... but be sure to order the book for yourself using this link to see many examples of the extreme view of Calvinism in the teaching of many well known pastors and teachers today. Has extreme OSAS blinded you to some biblical truths? Read my paper that expands on the above paragraph and goes into more detail about the doctrines of Calvinism and Arminianism.
