Grappling with Once-Saved-Always-Saved Premise
Believers are likely to latch onto the once-saved-always-saved assurance (as taught by certain denominations) if they do not personally have trouble trying to reconcile this maxim with the anomalies routinely witnessed among different Christian communities. The worst-case counter-example will be when renowned mega-church leaders fall dramatically into abject disrepute and leave in their wake such adverse impact that the large followings they attracted thereafter become disillusioned and rudderless. In a similar vein, supposedly staunch followers are wont to feel distraught when interacting with immediate relatives or close friends who have openly renounced their Christian faith in favour of other religions. As for the pew-warmers in church, even they may find occasion to query the beliefs of their ostensibly Christian bosses who keep resorting to business practices that run afoul of biblical ethics. Given the prevalence of such counter-examples, what is the ...