How Scandal Unravels Protestantism's 'Eternal Security'

In this episode, Trent shows how scandals in the Protestant world call into question their doctrine of eternal security.

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Timestamps:
00:00 How Scandal Unravels Protestantism's "Eternal Security"
00:30 Eternal Security
01:45 Lawson Scandal
02:10 Salvation: Catholics vs Protestants’ Eternal Security
04:25 Take Steps to Avoid Grave Sin
06:45 Ask for forgiveness and seek to amend behavior
12:19 Worry about salvation of unrepentant Christians
13:40 Are we saved?

[felipeneves]

Thank God for the Sacrament of Confession.

[Deuterocomical]

The “never saved in the first place” response is so obviously in conflict with assurance of salvation.

I had two Protestant friends in high school. One of them fell away and became an atheist, and I asked the other about this, to which he said “he was never saved to begin with”.

Fast forward 10 years, he is now an atheist too. So if someone can believe in eternal security AND believe that he is eternally secure, yet not actually have ever been saved, then we have to conclude that we simply can’t know if we are saved until we die.

[TitusConstantine]

The Jimmy Swaggert "I have sinned" public announcement was the original YouTuber apology video

[hectormartinez-montcada]

The thing I love about being a Catholic is the sacrament of Confession. I've found it evolving from "I did this wrong" to "I confess these specific sins, I beg for my Lord's forgiveness, and I ask for guidance in an increase in these virtues." Basically, each confession becomes more and more of a challenging examination of conscience. And how wonderful that we have the most loving and perfect Heavenly Father, who rejoices at the idea of His children growing up spiritually.

[christianstephens]

Since I became Catholic I find im actually not trying to earn my salvation , I live every day in peace knowing I do have a relationship with God and if sin mortally I go to confession ASAP

[MaranglikPeterTo-Rot]

Thank you brother Trent Horn and all the awesome souls behind this youtube channel for yet another great content.
God bless you and your ministry.

[Lucas-zues]

as a prot now looking into catholicism, this really confused me when trying to find out what is sin a few years ago. Most of the stuff u said really hit home about how other prots act like it isn’t works based when it sort of is. A lot of it started a lot of scrupulosity and anxiety. Thank you for this and pray for me as i look into which church is right and true

[hgbitner]

Disqualification from ministry =\= “losing” salvation

[RhenishHelm]

This is very precipitous timing. Yesterday morning, I sat through a sermon, at the Calvinist church to which I presently belong, that centered on the doctrine of Assurance. The preacher entirely misrepresented the Catholic position in the exact caricature which you debunk in your video. Thankfully, I attended a lovely mass in the afternoon, which washed that bad taste out of my mouth. Thank you for all your work, Trent.

[mikethemonsta]

Thank you Trent for the work you do, would you consider doing a video on the importance of prayer and silence? How an excellent prayer life leads to good apologetics?

[SDRBass]

I’ll correct you on one point. Ministry specifically requires a higher standard of character. Above reproach. While Lawson may be a genuine Christian, he’s disqualified from being a pastor specifically.

[foggy]

This topic is simple.

Don't sin. Have you sinned? Repent. Believe and obey God, and you will be saved.

To questions like "but if I'm continuing and I'm sorry about it what do I do then, am I going to heaven?" the answer is the same. These are inconsequential questions.

Repent, obey God.

[BastianHelena]

I think it definitely has to do with the “genre” of Protestant you are. I grew up non-de Protestant, which are the churches with the smoke machines, lights, concert-like experience “worship service”, and often way too hip and young of pastors on stage saying unvetted things. If you were to ask THEM what they believed about external salvation, I legitimately do not think they’d have any opinion in it because their theology is not deep enough to have thought about this question. If you were to ask someone with some type of liturgical tradition and standards for preaching, they most likely would. I was actually talking to my husband about this yesterday.

[catholicfemininity]

That is incredibly disturbing that the protestants say that a former Christian was never saved in the first place... really disturbing ...and can make one fall into nihilism.

[chevyfinn]

As a Lutheran, I am really grateful for confession! I don't hold the calvinist or Arminian view of salvation.

[Caswagna]

These mega churches are so insincere and purely performative

[SipswithSerra]

Seeing all these TV pastors makes me feel like I'm at my grandparents house

[TheThreatenedSwan]

This is one of the doctrines I've never seen how you could accept. In the Bible it's just so obvious you can lose your salvation

[InvestmentJoy]

Someone got a raise and put that in into great graphics!

[BG-truth]

I bet David and Salomon would be grateful for no social media in their times 😂