Once saved always saved?

Yes you can lose if you start sinning and not repent,just like how Lucifer was in heaven and God kicked him out when he sinned

Once saved always saved— yes! In the sense that, when a personally TRULY becomes saved they receive Christ and are transformed and they never depart from the faith.

I'm growing into the persuasion that we can "lose" our salvation, in the sense that we have the freedom to walk away from Christ after we have truly encountered him. I believe in the perseverance of Christ's invincible heart for us, but we would be mere puppets and automatons if we , once we have entered into a relationship, no longer had the capacity to leave it. I'm still growing into this line of reasoning, but God made us with a big, delicious free will, that can (foolishly) reject him.

Yes, a Christian can lose salvation. If you say otherwise, you’re essentially saying that we don’t have free will. A human can chose to walk away from God, but that’s the way for the salvation to be “lost”. No one in the world before the Protestant Reformation would’ve said that you can’t lose your salvation lol.

It’s so sad that many Christians live on the the tightrope of not understanding the completion of Christs achievement and opt for Jehovah witness styled salvation by works because of misunderstanding scripture. There will be some that were never believers in the first place such as Judas but have the appearance of being a Christian. But this is quite different from salvation by works or in fear of committing the unpardonable sin!

Galations 5:1 is talking about how we can stop living in the good of Gods grace. Falling away doesn’t mean loosing our salvation. It’s not possible to be ‘unborn again’. Thank heavens!

If we are capable of losing our salvation, what is the point of grace? Is the blood of Jesus limited? Is it conditional? If we were capable of saving ourselves and/or keeping ourselves saved, why did Jesus die in the first place?

The Bible warns Christians that they can "fall from grace" (Gal. 5:1-5), be "cut off" from salvation (Rom. 11:18-22), have their names removed from the Lamb's Book of Life (Rev. 22:19), by committing certain sins and not repenting of them (cf. Eph. 5: 3-5; 1Cor. 6:9; Gal. 5:19, Rev. 21:6-8).

It can't be anymore clear than that

It's really very simple,. The Bible warns Christians that they can "fall from grace" (Gal. 5:1-5), be "cut off" from salvation (Rom. 11:18-22), have their names removed from the Lamb's Book of Life (Rev. 22:19), by committing certain sins and not repenting of them (cf. Eph. 5: 3-5; 1Cor. 6:9; Gal. 5:19, Rev. 21:6-8).

It s better If You don't stop believing

Idk but I will say it his u can't build anything into of junk or a weak foundation

yes this is correct

I think that such a huge topic like this needs detailed study of the whole of God's word. Thankfully, there are people who have done alot of the hard work for us. I can recommend the book Bible Doctrine by Wayne Grudem, which is an abridged version of his Systematic Theology. It's more readable than you think, and is useful for us in our study of the Bible. Without comprehensive study, we could believe whichever argument suits us, or even think God's word can is contradictory (which it isn't)

Was Judas ever saved? Did Judas ever lose his salvation? Can a Christian renounce Christ and become a Satanist?

I can write all day on this long debated topic but ill just say this, that is not scripture, and there are plenty of scriptures that proves thus wordly saying false. I can only say study to show thyself approved unto God, there has been plenty manipulation of the word of God, because people desire to make Gods word appease their sin. He who endures to the end the same shall be saved matthew 24:13.

I Never Knew You 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ So let’s not take salvation for granted

Im so glad that we can as Christians have these discussions because we need to know that we are saved by his grace because he loves us even when we disobey he waits for us to fall in alignment but if we don’t the we don’t! his love doesn’t change but this is what does mathew7: 21-23 says:

Whatever God started he will bring to completion... 1 peter I'm someone who did slide for a while. God was determined to keep that work going!

You can not lose your salvation. Jesus has promised to keep us and He never fails.

If one is saved by Yeshua, Jesus Christ, the Son of Almighty God ...then He has redeemed that person by His blood and forgiven all their sins. He is faithful to complete that which He has started in us, and our omnipotent, omnipresent God is always with us to lead and hold us is His hands. He knows our beginning and end. Why would He predestine us then lose us? I think those that "lose their salvation/faith" deliberately reject God, but He knew they would, yet His grace is sufficient.

In the epistles of Saint Paul: he writes right like this: I was saved, I'm being saved and hope to be saved at the last judgment

I think if we truly repent, we’re saved, if we then backslide, we’re saved, if we turn away, we’re saved, God is waiting for us to turn around, and will wait as long as it takes. I heard a story recently about a man who became a Christian as a young man but later turned his back, years later, and dying of cancer, he felt God’s presence and on his deathbed, came back to Christ. So there’s hope for those brothers and sisters who’ve fallen away. But did they truly give their lives to Jesus?

Like with any relationship it needs to be maintained. God invites us to be in a covenant with Him and we have a choice whether we accept or decline the invite. If we accept we are to maintain the relational covenant with Him. Marriage is an example of this, hardened hearts lead to divorce as hardened hearts can lead us away from God. You can lose salvation by not maintaining your relationship with Jesus.

I always liked the Davids Pawson sermon on this. He also wrote a book. Can take a look.

I don't believe you can lose your salvation, but you can willfully forfeit/turn away from it. There are many Scriptures in the NT that describe this happening. 1 Timothy 4:1, Luke 12:42-48, 2 Peter 2:20-22, Hebrew 3:12, Romans 11:22

Once saved always saved. “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.”” ~ John‬ ‭10‬:‭27‬-‭30‬

1/2 This is just my opinion, but NO. Jesus paid the ultimate price so that we could be saved. But God gave us free will so that we may choose to follow Christ and be saved. But if we don't turn away from sin and the ways of the world, then we are held captive by the sins we keep running back to. We have to repent and Jesus will save us. Jesus saves me on a daily basis because don't we all fall short?

2/2 If you go to a dangerous area & you get kidnapped & tortured. You cry out Jesus, me and He does. You follow Jesus for a while, but the road gets hard and it's not exciting... so you end up going back to that dangerous area where the kidnappers are and they torture you again. You cry out again Jesus, save me please, I'm sorry I left you. Can you imagine if Jesus said - I already saved you once. Once saved always saved, right? Thank goodness Jesus never says that and He is excited to save us

Can I provide an answer to different question? Because i do think that the key to finding a good answer is accepting that there are greater questions that solves smaller ones. Is God good? if we truly believe that God is good, that He hears us when we cry out, if we believe He hasn’t closed the gates of heaven to us with impossible or confusing rules. then we have a good reason to trust in Him regardless of the answers to smaller questions. the goodness of God is indeed a greater question.

Jesus said “go and sin no more”

Lets look at the scripture! Matthew 7:21-23 is a pretty clear answer. P.S. the more accurate translation of Jesus words, "I never knew you", from the original Koine Greek would be "for not even one day have I claimed you as my own". So all this professing our faith, the works, the service, the prayer, etc is not the way to be claimed by Jesus. Remember: there is a way that seems right to men, and in the end leads to death. The path is narrow my friends, single file behind Christ our Lord!

I believe it is possible to fall away from the Lord. While we are not saved by our own works, we are called to live a holy and sanctified life—there is no way around it. Scripture supports this truth, though many choose not to see it, often due to their own fleshly desires or the influence of false teachings. The path to life is narrow.

I have learned about His faithfulness and unfailing Love largely through the lack of my own. But for the Grace of God go any of us… We cannot limit the ability of Jesus to save through our understanding of it. God pursues us, and sent Jesus with a heart of mercy, in full knowledge that we cannot remain faithful, and need Him in advocate for us.. so that no one can boast by their own works. This is our God. I do not believe the God I know Him to be turns the worst of sinners (like me) away.

We can make a case either way, but the reality is we do not know for sure. God looks at the heart and it is His will that none should perish - there are so many difficult situations and circumstances, where we can’t apply a blanket theory as to who is saved and who is not. If we truly believe that God loves people, then I have to believe that He looks upon people with compassion (people who have lost faith usually have done so due to pain), giving them an opportunity to accept Him.

No, according to the Bible we as born-again Christians cannot lose their salvation and those who are born again are given eternal life and that God's plan cannot change, His promises cannot fail & that the calling of God cannot be revoked. Those who are truly saved will remain saved until the end.

I'm unsure about this. I'm a lodger with a family who strongly believes that you can't and I see where they're coming from. Jesus does say he won't lose any of those given to him. And for those who say you lose salvation when you lose faith, even John the Baptist lost faith but I think we can agree he didn't lose his salvation. So there seems to be a good argument for it. Plus, salvation isn't gained by works, so how can it be lost by works?

Yes you can, unfortunately. So we fall we should strive to be like st Peter and not like Judas Iscariot 💪♥️✝️