“once saved, always saved” no matter what the daily walk may be. Nevertheless such abuses do not warrant anyone in repudiating the doctrine itself and opposing the teaching of Scripture thereon, for there is nothing in the Word of God which has the slightest tendency to make light of sin or countenances loose living, but rather everything to the contrary. When expressing his hatred of the truth of the eternal security of Christ’s sheep, John Wesley exclaimed “How pleasing is this to flesh and blood,”