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Can Christians Lose Their Salvation?
by Greg Laurie on Sep 24, 2016
He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.
Sometimes people will make a profession of faith, and then seemingly fall away. We ask ourselves, "Did this person lose their salvation?"
My question, in turn, would be, "Were they ever really saved to begin with?"
If somebody commits their life to Christ, then walks away and never comes back, I suggest to you that they were never a Christian at all. If, on the other hand, someone commits their life to the Lord, walks away, and then comes back to Christ, I suggest to you that they were simply a prodigal.
The true test is where they end up.
A true believer will always come home to the Lord, eventually. A person who is not a true believer won’t. In 1 John 2:19 (NIV) we read: "They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us."
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