"NO, YOU WERE NOT SAVED THEN"

Recently, a friend asked me, "Do you not believe I was saved when I was in fundamentalism, freewillism, and Arminianism?" My answer was given without hesitation - "No, you were not saved then." Freewillism is just as false a religion as Mormonism, or Romanism. No one is saved by believing a false gospel. If you are saved, you were saved when you heard and believed the gospel of God's free, sovereign, efficacious grace in Christ, NOT BEFORE! If men are saved to the honor of God and the glory of Christ, if the Holy Spirit gives dead sinners life through the preaching of a false gospel, why should we concern ourselves with knowing and preaching the truth, the gospel of Christ?