Can you lose your salvation?

Question

I'm in a bible study and this question came up; If someone gives their life to God, and then a couple years later denounces His name, do they go to Heaven in the end?

Answer 1

It is possible to loose your salvation. It depends on the state of your soul at your death that will determine it. If your soul has a mortal sin.
What is mortal sin? In order for a sin to be mortal, it must meet three conditions:

Mortal sin is a sin of grave matter
Mortal sin is committed with full knowledge of the sinner
Mortal sin is committed with deliberate consent of the sinner

This means that mortal sins cannot be done "accidentally." A person who commits a mortal sin is one who knows that their sin is wrong, but still deliberately commits the sin anyway. This means that mortal sins are "premeditated" by the sinner and thus are truly a rejection of God’s law and love.

The only remedy is for the mortal sinner to truly repent and not to sin again, just like the woman at the well that Jesus encountered.
Repentance and confession is the key. The once saved always saved notion is anti-christian.

Answer 2

If you have received God in your heart, not just on the outside, then you cannot lose your salvation.

The problem with us humans is that we give our lives to God in pieces. We want to keep certain parts for ourselves and therefore do not accept him on his terms, but rather our own.

As humans we cannot determine if another has totally submitted themselves to God, so when we see someone who seemed to be saved go away from God and denounce him, we think that they may have lost something they never really had.

I know that for myself, my date of going forward and accepting God and Jesus Christ as my personal savior and my actual date of salvation are years apart. Once I submitted totally to God, my life changed completely, not just in bits and pieces.

So, no you cannot lose your salvation once you have truely submitted. Only God and the person involved know the truth, we cannot judge or know of anothers true heart.

Answer 3

"If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them. Of them the proverbs are true: A dog returns to its vomit, and, A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud" (2 Pet 2:20-22 NIV)

For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.. For if we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries." (Heb 6:4-6;10:26-27 RSV).

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep" (1 Cor 11:27-30 NKJ).

"And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more" (Luke 12:47-48 NKJ

According to this it is. What's interesting about this, is that the appeasement doctrine that exist within the church today is a completely by pass of these principles found in the bible. The whole accepting Jesus as your lord thing and that you are slatted for heaven no matter how you live, is completely bullcrap. Most Christains according to these verses would be guilty of Crucifying Christ afresh within them, unfortunately. The Way of Yeshua/Jesus is a holistic consecrated lifestyle and mindset which is set on reaching the spiritual ideal through living what you know, being faithful to what you have and applying it as you understand.

Answer 4

there are a couple of verses that describe falling from grace.
it is possible to lose salvation, but generally the only ones that will be LOST are the sons of perdition and those that commit the sin of blasphemy against the holy ghost.
i concluded that noone has that ability to blaspheme the holy ghost because most people dont know what it really means.

Answer 5

Yes, they will go to heaven if they really got saved. You are forgiven after that but denouncing God isn't a good thing to do. So, I wouldn't do it.

Answer 6

You can't lose your salvation if you obey the commandments and persevere to the end. But you can lose your salvation by rejecting God's mercy.

Rev. 22:19 - we can have a share in the tree of life in God's holy city and yet have that share taken away from us. This one verse alone demolishes the "once saved always saved" theory.

Matt. 7:18 - Jesus says that sound trees bear good fruit. But there is no guarantee that a sound tree will stay sound. It could go rotten.

Matt. 7:21 - all those who say "Lord, Lord" on the last day will not be saved. They are judged by their evil deeds.

Matt. 12:30-32 - Jesus says that he who is not with Him is against Him, therefore (the Greek for "therefore" is "dia toutos" which means "through this") blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. This means that failing to persevere in Jesus' grace to the end is the unforgivable sin against the Spirit. We must persevere in faith to the end of our lives.

Matt. 22:14 - Jesus says many are called but few are chosen. This man, who was destined to grace, was at God's banquet, but was cast out.

Luke 8:13 - Jesus teaches that some people receive the word with joy, but they have no root, believe for a while, and then fall away in temptation. They had the faith but they lost it.

Luke 12:42-46 - we can start out as a faithful and wise steward, then fall away and be assigned to a place with the unfaithful.

Luke 15:11-32 – in the parable of the prodigal son, we learn that we can be genuine sons of the Father, then leave home and die, then return and be described as "alive again."

John 6:70-71 - Jesus chose or elected twelve, yet one of them, Judas, fell. Not all those predestined to grace persevere to the end.

John 15:1-10 - we can be in Jesus (a branch on the vine), and then if we don't bear fruit, are cut off, wither up and die. Paul makes this absolutely clear in Rom. 11:20-23.

John 17:12 - we can be given to Jesus by the Father (predestined to grace) and yet not stay with Jesus, like Judas.

John 6:37 - those who continue to come to Jesus He won't cast out. But it's a continuous, ongoing action. We can leave Jesus and He will allow this because He respects our freewill.

John 6:39 - Jesus will not lose those the Father gives Him, but we can fall away, like Judas. God allows us not to persevere.

John 6:40 - everyone who sees the Son and believes means the person "continues" to believe. By continuing to believe, the person will persevere and will be raised up. Belief also includes obedience, which is more than an intellectual belief in God.

John 6:44 - Jesus says no one can come to me unless the Father "draws" him. This "drawing" is an ongoing process.

John 10:27-28 - when Jesus says, "no one shall snatch them out of my hands," He does not mean we can't leave His hands. We can choose to walk away from Him.

Rev. 2:4-5 – Jesus tells the Ephesians that they abandoned the love they had at first and have fallen. Jesus warns them to repent and do the works they did at first, otherwise He will remove their lampstand (their awaited place in heaven).

Rev. 3:4 - in Sardis, Jesus explained that some people received the white garment and soiled it with sin.

Rev. 3:5 - Jesus says whoever conquers will not be blotted out of the book of life (see Exodus 32:33). This means that we can be blotted out of the book of life. We can have salvation, and then lose salvation by our choice.

Rev. 3:11 - Jesus says to hold fast to what we have, so that no one may seize our crown. Jesus teaches us that we can have the crown of salvation and lose it.

Rev. 13:10; 14:12 - we are called from heaven for the endurance and faith of the saints, keeping the commandments and faith.

Rev. 21:7 - we must conquer in order to share in our heritage and become a true son of Jesus.

http://www.scripturecatholic.com/salvation.html#salvation-IV

Answer 7

It is possible to "lose salvation."
Once saved always saved is not true.
Hebrews 6:4 forwards this idea.

Answer 8

Unless he is sorry for that and asks for forgiveness then he, in my opinion, would not go to heaven.

Answer 9

Jesus tells us, once your name is written in the lambs book of life, no power can erase it. He also tells us that once we are in the palm of His hand, even satan cannot snatch you out.

Answer 10

no just keep strong in the lords power he loves u