Then your saying that every single church established by the apostles fell away from their teaching less than 150 years after Jesus’ ascension and Jesus’ plan to establish the church to spread the gospel to the entire world failed until Martin Luther came along 1500 years later and set everyone straight. St. Iranaeus refuted eternal security and unconditional salvation in his writing Adversus Haereses written in 180AD which has been embraced by the Catholic Church since the day it was written. Please take a moment to read this that he wrote some time between 170-180AD.
1. This expression [of our Lord], How often would I have gathered your children together, and you would not,
Matthew 23:37 set forth the ancient law of
human liberty, because God made man a free [agent] from the beginning, possessing his own power, even as he does his own
soul, to
obey the behests (
ad utendum sententia) of God voluntarily, and not by compulsion of
God. For there is no coercion with
God, but a good will [towards us] is present with Him continually. And therefore does He give good counsel to all. And in man, as well as in
angels, He has placed the power of choice (for
angels are rational beings), so that those who had yielded
obedience might
justly possess what is
good, given indeed by
God, but preserved by themselves. On the other hand, they who have not
obeyed shall, with
justice, be not found in possession of the
good, and shall receive condign punishment: for God did kindly bestow on them what was
good; but they themselves did not diligently keep it, nor deem it something precious, but poured contempt upon His super-eminent goodness. Rejecting therefore the
good, and as it were spuing it out, they shall all deservedly incur the just judgment of
God, which also the
Apostle Paul testifies in his Epistle to the Romans, where he says, But do you despise the riches of His goodness, and patience, and long-suffering, being
ignorantthat the goodness of God leads you to repentance? But according to your hardness and impenitent heart, you store to yourself
wrath against the day of
wrath, and the revelation of the righteous judgment of
God.But
glory and
honour, he says, to every one that does good. God therefore has given that which is
good, as the apostle tells us in this Epistle, and they who work it shall receive
gloryand
honour, because they have done that which is
good when they had it in their power not to do it; but those who do it not shall receive the just judgment of
God, because they did not work good when they had it in their power so to do.
AdVersys Haereses Book IV Chapter 37