Is Backsliding Possible?
Dr. Gray believes the Bible to teach that he who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ has everlasting life from the moment be so believes. He understands the Bible to teach that to believe on Jesus Christ Is to be born of God. He professes to understand that “begotten of God” and “born of God” are interchangeable terms, and he ridicules Pastor Russell for differing from him on all these ideas. It is from this teaching of Dr. Gray’s (not original with him, however) that comes the doctrine “once in grace, always In grace.” This is taken as a sweet morsel of comfort by many nominal Christians who therefore allow themselves to become “at ease in Zion,” unconscious of the woe impending them (Amos 6:1.) There is no doctrine more full of peril, and the entire teaching of Scripture is to the contrary, viz.: that, having begun a good fight, we must maintain it with relentless vigilance, lest we should by any means fait at the end to win the prize of eternal life. Temporarily passing the paragraph
