Disclaimer that is on almost every page; please read if you haven't already! Thank you :) : This website is research-based. All information is research completed to point someone to the truth. The author is more than confident in his ability to figure out what is true and not true, and with every document he did his best to be right. Still, he did not complete all documents with 100% certainty. So, while at least the vast majority of the information referenced in this website is accurate and helpful for coming to the right conclusion, it is not guaranteed that anything on or referenced by this website is true. This is intentionally allowed so that people are invited to think for themselves.
So, please use your own judgment when coming to any conclusions.
Based on emails, this website will be edited to be more beneficial for anyone interested, when it's appropriate.
All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise referenced, are from the NASB 1995.
Note of awareness: The following information is not to say that Conditional Security is not true or that all people who believe in it use the tactic. It is only to equip people to be prepared if they ever come across the tactic.
Jesus said, "...the Father is greater than I" (John 14:27).
Jehovah's Witnesses, who share their faith a lot and believe that Jesus is not God, will read that verse to try and show He is not God. At first glance, they can seem right. Getting to know the Bible more reveals it should be interpreted differently.
Sometimes, pro-Conditional Security presentations just cite a verse without really explaining what it means, and then just talk as if it is plain to see that it proves Conditional Security. Here are three possible examples (followed by one with a link to it):
God will "hold the unrighteous" who previously were "knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" and who had "known the way of righteousness" "for the day of judgment" like sending "angels... to Hell" (2 Pet. 2:9, 20, 21, 9, 4 NIV 1984). (See this page for an explanation compatible with eternal security.)
Christians are told, "Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life" (Jude 21). (See this page for an explanation compatible with eternal security.)
"Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy," because "without holiness no one will see the Lord" (Heb. 12:14). (See this page for an explanation compatible with eternal security.)
An actual example is in this video (time 3:32-3:37 [Hebrews 3:12]). (A response to the video is here.)
Since God intended the Bible to be carefully studied and to teach us spiritual truths because we do not know every spiritual truth, no one can know a verse teaches Conditional Security just because it can easily be taken to mean that. Therefore, a person in the twenty-first century should be open to there being more spiritual truths than they already have come across, and should be encouraged to study the Bible for themself. Therefore, to imply a spiritual truth can be quickly and easily known as unquestionably true -- especially one that has such a huge impact on a person -- is misleading and unfair.
There are two other thoughts worth considering if coming across a verse in that way:
The same mental trick can be used with a lot of verses that seem to teach eternal security (some examples are John 4:13-14; 5:24; 6:39-40; 10:27-29; 17:12; Rom. 8:29-30, 35-39; 11:29; Gal. 3:26-27; Phil. 1:6; 2 Tim. 1:12; 2:13; 4:8, 18; 1 Pet. 1:5; Heb. 6:16-20; 10:14; Jude 24-25). I once spoke to a friend who has two PhDs (one in biblical studies and the other in theological studies), and he said someone could probably come up with 85 verses and say they prove eternal security if they tried.
Many verses can seem to support Conditional Security so much that, when trying to get to the truth, it has to be considered as a possibility. (Even if someone already knows eternal security is true, like is possible from the documents found here, the passage has to be carefully studied by itself. That means knowledge that isn't necessary to make sense out of if is left out.) It is natural to doubt something when coming across a real reason to question it (and not already having a real reason to be confident in a response [technically speaking]). Verses you don't yet know that you can understand properly don't disprove eternal security anymore than God made the Bible a simple book that isn't to be studied carefully, and instead should be read with the mindset that many modern-day church people learn. (One example of a modern-day spiritual mindset is when Christians hear the word saved and immediately think of going to Heaven. They don't realize that someone is only necessarily saved from something, and context will say what.)