Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Council of Trent. Today, we are hosting a debate between myself and Ryan from need godnet.

The debate resolution is, does the Bible teach that a Christian can lose his salvation, despite continuing to have his trust in Christ to save him?

Here's the format of the debate. We're each going to have

15-minute opening statements, then a 10-minute first rebuttal, four-minute second rebuttal, 15 minutes

of cross-examination each, and then a five-minute closing statement from each of us. So before we get

started, Ryan, welcome to the Council of Trent. Thank you so much. Great to be here.

Absolutely. So we've gone back and forth a little bit in videos about each other, but this is

the first time we've been able to engage each other directly. So I'm looking forward to this debate.

So since I'm taking the affirmative position, I will be going first, and I shall begin.

All right.

All right.

So in today's debate, I'm going to show the Bible teaches that a Christian can forsake his

salvation despite continuing to trust in Christ to save him.

I'll show that Ryan's position is unbiblical, unhistorical, and unworkable.

First, Ryan's position is unbiblical. Jesus says in John 15, verses 2 and 6,

every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away. If anyone does not abide in me,

he is thrown away as a branch and dries up, and they gather them and cast them into the fire,

and they are burned. These branches do not represent false believers because Jesus speaks of the damned

as those who do not abide or remain in him. He's talking about true believers at some point

fail to remain connected to him and are damned as a result. Jesus even warns people who claim they

will be saved because they call on his name or trusted him, but engaged in grave sin.

He says in Matthew 721, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven,

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