Are All True Christians Predestined to Persevere?
The Proposition Thank you. Tonight I have been asked to debate the proposition, All true Christians have been predestined to persevere. To debate this, we must first understand what it means, and to that end I would like to briefly mention its three key terms. “True Christians” The first term is “true Christians.” It is easy enough to say who these are. A “true Christian” is a person who has been justified, born again, and entered a state of salvation. Notice that the term has an opposite: “false Christians.” A false Christian is a person who, though he has apparently come to Christ and made a profession of faith in him, in reality he was never justified, never born again, and he never entered a state of salvation. False Christians are mentioned in the Scriptures, and Catholics do not dispute their existence. This is a fact which I fear I may have to remind my opponent of during our debate tonight, as he is likely to bring forward passages discussing false Christians in an attempt to p
