Expert: Pastor Don Carpenter - 10/2/2011

Question
Thanks for your time,  my question is can a christian go to hell? Can one loose their salvation?

Answer
Hi Josh,

Thanks for this great question.  I will answer it as simply as it was asked, but if you want more details I can give it.  Since one is saved by grace through faith, and there is nothing you can do to earn salvation, it follows that there is nothing you can do to maintain it either... Once you are saved, you cannot go to Hell.

Galatians 3:1–3 (AV)
1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?


Philippians 1:6 (AV)
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:


I hope that this helps you.

In Christ
Pastor Don