Going to explore the implications of the button analogy later.

Here are the models based on this analogy.

1. If you push the button, you get $100

2. If you push the button, you get $100 only if you believe you will get $100

3. If you push the button, you get $100 but you lose it if you stop pushing the button

4. If you keep pushing the button, you will eventually get $100

5. If you push the button, you get $100, but if you did push the button, you'll keep pushing the button

6. If you keep pushing the button, you will eventually get $100, but those who do push the button won't stop pushing the button.

7. Pushing the button is not how you get $100, it instead must be earned some other way.

If we are to say that the only condition to get $100 is to push the button, then 6 out of the 7 have $100.

The only way around this to preserve a rigid and strict Free Grace is to hold the position that the others are pushing a different button. I do not see this as very compelling.

Let's expand this to another set of models.

1. If you push the button, you get $100 only if you believe the button is made out of plastic
2. If you push the button, you get $100 only if you believe the button is made of out metal
3. If you push the button, you get $100 only if you believe the wiring is soldered in the back
4. If you push the button, you get $100 only if you believe the money is in quarters
5. If you push the button, you get $100 only if you don't believe the first 4 on this list

I hope you can see how absurd this is. All of them pushed the button regardless of what they think the button or the machine is. All 5 of them have $100.

I'll come back later and expand on this.

So again the refute to this is that they are all actually pushing different buttons. But that's not how people tend to argue about Christ. We typically say "Christ is ____" or "Christ taught ____". Clearly the implication is that we are analyzing the same thing and some of us are wrong. If we are to say that someone is wrong about Christ, we are conceding that we are analyzing the same thing rather than two different things, which means that signing the contract without reading it is possible (ie, believing in Jesus without realizing it seals a person's destiny).

Let's put this into an example:

Position A — Push the button to get $100
Position B — Push the button to get $100, but you'll lose the $100 if you stop pushing the button

We have two possible scenarios here. Either these positions imply they are referring to two different buttons, or they are analyzing the same button and coming up with different conclusions.

1. If A and B are referring to different buttons, only the correct position gets $100
2. If A and B are referring to the same button, and A is correct, both get $100
3. If A and B are referring to the same button, and B is correct, B gets $100 and A does as well only if he kept pushing the button afterwards

Notice how in number 2, Position B gets $100 despite being wrong. That is because he still pushed the button. He just didn't realize the $100 wouldn't be taken away.

I don't see how number 1 on this list makes sense at all. We debate over the same Jesus, and we can easily see this based on the fact that we call each other "wrong" or "incorrect" about him. If this is the case, and simply pushing the button gives you $100, then someone can be saved without knowledge of eternal security at all. Because Jesus has an open invitation that says "whosoever believeth on me hath everlasting life", the joke's on you when you believe in him and don't want everlasting life!

To make the analogy clear, pushing the button is trusting in Christ to get you to heaven, and the $100 is everlasting life. Now brace yourself for what I'm going to introduce. If you watched the video with Chris Morrison which I sent, you'd have heard him speak about this.

If a person doesn't actually believe that he will get $100 when he pushes the button, but pushes it anyway, he would still get the $100.

Think of a scenario where you are down in your luck and have no options. Someone you don't know lends you a hand, but because you are desperate, you have to trust him despite being doubtful of his intentions.

I remember when I was about 16 and I was over at my uncles house playing with my younger cousins. The middle child was on the playset and I was standing on the ground next to the ledge of where he was standing, and he just ran right at me, completely trusting that I would catch him before he fell. This is the earliest I can remember seeing such a pure childlike faith. He had absolutely no fear that he was gonna hit the ground.

We can learn from this. Let's imagine eternal salvation as falling into the arms of Jesus from that ledge on the playset. Let's be honest, most of us (the world) would be hesitant to trust him, but he's the only way off the playset (John14:6) so we have to trust him. So if we take that step of faith off the ledge of the playset, do you really think that Jesus would just pull his arms away and let us fall just because we have doubts and worries?

Salvation is dead simple, and demanding knowledge about the Savior at the threat of him not catching you when you fall to him makes Jesus out to be completely evil.

There is no reason that doubt would ever prevent Jesus from saving a person. I'll give you a perfectly fine profession of faith in light of this:

"Jesus, I am confused and lost. So many people are telling me so many different things, and I have no idea what to believe. In my fear and worry I am doubtful of everything I am told. I am afraid that something terrible awaits me after I die. I think the only thing I can do is to trust you with my soul. Please don't let anything happen to me."

Recent video from the false teacher Redeemed Zoomer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW0FE8al6i8

He's noticeably unlearned in OSAS and hasn't understood the different positions of it. He only tackles the NIFB position which states a believer can't stop believing. In this video he doesn't even seem to realize the Free Grace position of OSAS, which is that an eternally secure person could stop believing.

The guy takes a lot of L's.

He at least understands that eternal life can't be lost once a person has it, but he backloads works because he's a calvinist.