Can a Christian Lose Their Salvation?

Question

Question #5 of questions asked to Christians:

My reference is the Bible Answer Book

Sincere believers are sharply divide on this question. Some say Christians can lose their salvation and subsequently must be born again and again if they fall away. Others contend that true believers cannot lose their salvation through sin, but they can apostatize or walk away from their salvation. Still others hold that salvation begins at the moment of conversion (not death) and continues for all eternity - This is the veiw I have.

We will do well to remember that everlasting life means just that - life everlasting. This life does not begin when we die but when we embrace the Savior who died in our place. As our physical birth can never be undone, so too our spiritual birth can never be undone. Christ said "ye must be born again" (John 3:7), not "ye must be born again and again and again. in Philippians.

Paul praises God for the confidence that, "He who begin a good work in you will carry it on to completion" (Philippians 1:6)
The bible teaches us once we have salvation we cannot lose it. Jesus said, “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.” (John 10:28,29) Once we turn to God, we will always be God’s. Once we have the true peace and joy from God, we will give him our entire life.

If we can lose our salvation, then God’s gift means nothing to us. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23) The question about this verse is did you really take God’s free gift? Once we take God’s free gift of life we are assured of eternal life in Christ Jesus or Lord. Salvation is a gift of God.

God said, “We will not perish.” If we take God at his word and perish, this makes God a liar. The bible says, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. (John 3:16-18) We know God cannot lie. This means we must truly believe with all our hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, die on the cross from our sins, and was raised from the dead. Believing with all our heart means to repent and turn from our wicked ways, and daily take up our crosses.
Salvation comes down to if you are really saved or not. Once you are saved you cannot lose your salvation.

Answer 1

Once saved we are always saved. We are born again by the Holy Spirit who lives in us forever (John 4:5,6; 14:16; 1 Corinthians 12:3). God have promised never to leave us nor forsake us.

Even Isaiah prophesied in in the Old Testament that our salvation is forever in Isa 51:6 . . . . But my salvation will be forever, and My righteousness will not be abolished

Jesus became the author of eternal salvation (Hebrews 5:9).

When we sin we fall from grace and fail to use God's abundance of grace and His gift of righteousness to reign in life. It does not mean we lose our salvation but that we fail to be effective witnesses for Christ as sons of God who are led by the Holy Spirit.

Answer 2

The debate must not be if a Christian can lose their salvation. The Scritures and from Jesus own words is their an assurance that all you believe will have eternal life. The debate must be; can a Christian stop believing??? Everything is available if we believe! Mat. 18:15-17. Rebelation 3 of the church of Sardis. Exudus 32. Peter 3. These person believed at first, but falling in sin, they would not want to repent. Not believing do not produce good fruits.

Answer 3

Yes, you can lose your salvation according to scripture. If once saved always saved was biblical then Jesus would not have said narrow is the gate and straight is the path that leads to everlasting life and few will find it. What part of few do you once saved always saved people not understand.

Also a close study of baptism according to the bible will reveal that Jesus and God and the bible is clear that baptism is an essential part of being a Christian. It is at the moment of baptism that one starts their journey with Christ. it is baptism that is how one puts on Christ, is clothed with Christ, becomes a new creature, but once saved always doctrine rejects Jesus and bible teaching on this and rejects baptism.


Once saved always saved doctrine rejects the bible .therefore rejects Christ.

A close inspection of the scripture that people use to prove you cannot fal from grace will reveal that those passages are directed to those who wer baptized, did believe baptism *** essential, was talking directly to those who were of the saved according to scripture and the bible is clear that one must remain faithful to the end.

Magawalli and Leanne gave the get best answer. I can't believe I agree with Leanne on this.
BB

Answer 4

On the one hand the Bible tells us that our salvation is secure:
* "No-one can pluck them from my hand" (Jn)
* "Nothing can separate us from the love of God" (Rom)

On the other hand, there is the condition that we must continue in faith until the end:
* "We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first" (Heb)
* "be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position" (2Pe)

I don't think there is a contradiction, just many sides to the truth. Our salvation *is* secure, but the road is not an easy one. There are "many dangers, toils and snares" over which we have to be victorius.The key to the answer is that God is our Saviour:
* "...you who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation..." (1Pe)
* "The Lord is my light and my salvation... my shepherd... my fortress" (Ps)
God promises us what protection we need to ensure our perseverance through the trials and tempations that could cause us to fall away. In fact the very warnings to continue in our faith are sometimes the way God speaks to us and prevents it from happening.

One mistake people make is to put the onus on our efforts. Yes, our effort is part of the Christian life, but it is important not to lose sight that we are "saved by grace" (Eph). We are sinful, we cannot guarantee that, based on our efforts, we will continue to persevere. That sort of teaching only leads to despair.

However, God says, "though he stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand" (Ps). We need not despair. Otherwise, how could Peter say, "you... are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls" (1Pe). If a true believer could lose their faith, then what is there to be joyful about?

The other point is that "if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation" (2Cor), "we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus" (Eph). We are "born of God" (Jn) and God becomes our father, literally, not metaphorically (in the spiritual realm, not the physical). How can this new life that God planted in us die and then be reborn again and so on, as some make out?

Answer 5

Why so many times does it mention the "Backslider" Then in the Bible?
Being married to the backslider, return to Me, then if once saved/found salvation is just automatically always saved.

Once saved always saved does not work, you fall away....you fell away that is it!.

Carry you cross DAILY, Renew your mind DAILY. So many things tell us daily to keep us strong in our walk/to follow Him.

You stop or you walk away, you are in danger of losing your salvation. God sees the heart, and if your not for Him you are against Him...like luke warm water....there is no fence. You either are or you aren't. All we can do for ourselves is keep pushing a head, and help anyone along that we can.

Wide is the gate to destruction and narrow is the path to the Father, and once saved always save will not get you there.

It to me, is disrespectful to God to think that way. It is a journey that He has equipt you with everything you need to take, if you give up on that you think you still should enter in to His kingdom?

Answer 6

Finishing the race to eternity has a requirement - we must be spotless and blemishfree to enter the gates of Heaven. We may have earned salvation through faith, but we need to keep it through sanctification, so that He can place the proper wedding attire of righteousness upon us, so that we may partake in the divine wedding feast.

May God continue to annoint you with the Good News! Keep spreading the Gospel brother!

Answer 7

If saved, the only way to lose your salvation is to have accepted Jesus as your personal Savior and then at some point in time to deny, His Deity.
No one or thing can take away our salvation, except our self.
Remember, God gave us free choice to accept or reject Him.

Answer 8

No, can never lose your salvation.
Jesus allowed himself to be crucified, even if he knew he had the power to change it, in order that he might stand as man's eternal salvation.
"Look,he said, at what I can do. Look at what is true.And know that these things,and more,shall you also do.For have I said not,ye are gods?Yet you do not believe.If you cannot, then, believe in yourself,believe in me."
Such was Jesus' compassion that he begged for a way and created it to so impact the world that all might come to heaven (Self realization)-if in no other way, then through him.For he defeated misery, and death.And so might you. The grandest teaching of Christ was not that you shall have everlasting life, but that you do; not that you shall have brotherhood with God,but that you do; not that you shall have whatever you request, but that you do. We are All One.

Answer 9

Once saved not always saved. God's salvation does not come cheep. There are many chrisitans going to church thinking they are saved and yet livieng a life of sin. You cannot have one foot in the kingdom and the other in the world. You either serve Jesus 100% or not at all. Jesus made it clear in Revalations that no whoremunger, the imoral, all liers, anyone who practices magic art, Idolitors, adultiers, slanders(backstabing)anyone that practices fause hood will have thier part ont he lake that burns with fire and brimstone and that is the second death. Jesus said "Not everyone who calls me Lord, Lord will enter the kingdom of God, but only those who do the will of my Father who is in Heaven" It is like a chirsitian who gois to church, tells friends and family about Jesus and lives with thier partner without getting marrrid. Jesus said no fornicatiors will enter Heaven. Some chrisitans go to pubs and gets drunk and thinks its ok and that they think they are still on their way to Heaven. These people are luke warm and Jesus said he will vomit them out of his mouth. So yes you can lose your salvation. There were many christians that have turned wiccan, muslim etc and unless they repent before the rapture or before they die they will not make it to Heaven. So do not belive in htie lies of he enemy that says you can do what you wnat and still go to Heaven. The pure in Heart will see God. God's word is clear. "Without Holiness nobody will see the Lord". And God means everyword of it. Remeber the words of Jesus "Enter in the narrow gate for only a few be there that find it, because the wide gate is easy and many will travel it" Christians some of them think they are giong to Heaven just becasue they confess Jesus is Lord. Faith without works is dead. Satan also belives in Jesus, and trembles.

Answer 10

Answer: NO

Read John 10:27-30

If we are truly in the faith to begin with, salvation cannot be lost or undone. That would make the sacrafice of Christ null & void & imperfect