Bible can you lose salvation

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea.

And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, For if you return to the Lord , your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land.

For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him. For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.

For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. The Lord redeems the life of his servants; none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?

Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. Since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. I am coming soon.

Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown. The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name. Would that you were either cold or hot! Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your indignation toward us!

Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger to all generations? If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations—. Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption. And if Jesus is acknowledging this fact — then these people have to be born-again Christians, because only born-again Christians have the power of the Holy Spirit operating on the inside of them to be able to cast demons out of anyone.

I have heard some scholars argue that the people Jesus is referring to in this verse were unbelievers, not saved Christians. These unbelievers were then casting demons out of people and prophesying in His name as a direct result of operating under some kind of demonic influence or possession.

In other words, they were all doing this operating under the power of a demonic spirit rather than the power of the Holy Spirit. However, the second verse stated above is telling us that unbelievers cannot cast demons out of people, even if they are operating under some kind of demonic influence and power.

Another very powerful verse to help back up the revelation that demons are not going to be casting out other demons in a person is found in Mark In this verse, the Scribes are accusing Jesus of casting demons out of people by Beelzebub, the ruler of demons. Jesus then responds back stating that Satan is not going to be casting out himself, and that a kingdom will not be be able to stand if it becomes divided against itself.

In other words, not even Satan or one of his demons are going to try and cast out other demons in a person, as they would just be defeating their own purposes in trying to do so.

It is someone who is doing this on a regular and consistent basis, not someone who is just occasionally slipping up. Again, I believe Jesus is giving us a major clue in this verse in that He is really talking about Christians, not unbelievers. And if He is, then this verse is more proof that a Christian can lose their salvation if they push the envelope too far and too long with the Lord, with no intentions of ever pulling out of their sinful behaviors, and no remorse for doing it in the first place.

This next verse is very interesting. It talks about a sin that could lead to death and a sin that will not lead to death. Again, is this verse referring to Christians? If it is, then it is definitely delineating between certain types of sins. It is implying that some sins are obviously worse than others. Some of these sins could cause us to lose our salvation and other types of sins will not. Here is the verse:. I do not say that he should pray about that. All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.

God will obviously be the final judge on what sins could lead to death and which ones will not. But again, as a Christian, I would not want to be tempting my eternal fate with God the Father by engaging in some of the heavier sins mentioned in the above verses, thinking that He will look the other way just because we got saved earlier on in our lives.

If you put both of these phrases right next to one another, then I believe they could be telling us that a Christian could lose their salvation. Put this verse together with all of the other ones mentioned above — and the Scriptural evidence may really be there that a Christian could possibly lose their salvation if they try and push the envelope to far with God the Father by falling into and engaging in some of the heavier type sins as described above.

I will leave with you with one very scary intense verse from the Bible. This verse is coming direct from Jesus Himself from the Book of Revelation. The Book of Life is a Book that has every single saved and born-again believer recorded in it. Once you accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, your name is then written and recorded in this Book. But notice what Jesus says in reference to this specific Book. The fact that Jesus is telling us that our names can literally be blotted out from this Book is just more proof that we can possibly lose our salvation with Him.

If your name could not be blotted out from this Book, then Jesus would have never made this specific statement in the first place. But since He did, I believe this is another powerful Scripture verse that is showing us that we can lose our salvation in Him.

One of the things that He definitely wants us to overcome is the temptation to fall and enter into some of these heavier sin areas. To endure a temptation means you do not give into it, you do not cross the line — but if by chance you do fall into a specific temptation, to immediately pull out of it as soon as you can. If you do not, and you do not overcome and pull out of this temptation within the time span that God is giving you to pull out of it, then your name could be blotted out from His Book of Life for all of eternity!

The other thing to pick up with the specific wording that Jesus is using in this verse is that once He blots out your name from His Book of Life — it will be for all of eternity.

There will be no second chance to get back in once you have been officially erased from His Book, just like the first verse I listed at the beginning of this article is telling us. There is no other indication in this verse, or any other verses in the Bible, that this blotting out of your name can be reversed or rescinded. Again, if this was not an actual possibility, then Jesus would have never worded this verse the way He did.

But the fact that He is specifically using the words of having your own personal name blotted out from His Book of Life is all showing us that this is a definite possibility if we have gone too far and wallowed too long in a heavier sin area. You will each have to come to your own conclusions as to whether or not you feel a Christian can lose their salvation with the way all of the above verses are worded.

I personally believe that all of the above verses mean exactly what they are saying. I personally believe that all of the above verses, and specifically some of the key phrases mentioned in these verses, are simply way too much Scriptural evidence all showing that it is possible for a Christian to lose their salvation with the Lord. Regeneration is the event where one receives the Holy Spirit and becomes born again.

Every saved person has the Holy Spirit. In fact, you cannot regard yourself as a saved person nor call yourself a child of God if you do not have the Holy Spirit for God acknowledges only those who possess His Spirit as His children. If the Holy Spirit is all necessary for saved people, what happens to a saved person if he loses the Holy Spirit?

Is he still saved? Certainly not. And is it possible to lose the Holy Spirit? But I base my belief about this on my thorough study of the entire Bible and not just a few isolated Scriptures. First of all, I do not believe one can "lose" their salvation per se. It's true that no one can "snatch me out of my Father's hand. I no more have power to save myself than I could swim across the Pacific. The forgiveness of my sins bridging the gap to favor with God for eternity is only dependent upon Christ's finished work at Calvary through His blood.

But therein, I have a part—a responsibility to respond, hence the first step of life-saving belief. And beyond that, I have the responsibility of remaining faithful to the end, exerting my free will to love God with all my heart, shown by obedience John , and to stay in continuous fellowship with Him.

The balance of grace and works appears to be a holy tension that cannot be separated. While He will not leave me or go back on His covenant with me if we are faithless, he will remain faithful— 2 Timothy , it appears that I can choose to end my agreement with Him if we endure, we will also reign with him. If we disown him, he will also disown us—vs. Conditional promises: "So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will continue to live in fellowship with the Son and with the Father 1 John , emphasis mine.

Esau traded his birthright: "Make sure that no one is immoral or godless like Esau. He traded his birthright as the oldest son for a single meal. And afterward, when he wanted his father's blessing, he was rejected. It was too late for repentance, even though he wept bitter tears.

The son left his spiritual home: "We must celebrate with a feast, for this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life. He was lost, but now he is found Luke The word for son is Hulos, which can mean literal offspring as well as a son of Abraham. And the words for dead Nekros and lost Apollumi carry the metaphor of spiritually dead and sentenced to hell.

This son, not a foreigner or someone outside the family, rebelliously left his father's house and brought upon himself a condition of being spiritually dead.

While this metaphor was spoken about God's son Israel in the big picture, it is also warning to individuals. The Israelites forfeited the Promised Land: God made a promise to Israel, His "chosen son," of bringing them into the Promised Land, but all of His promises to them were conditional upon their faithfulness and obedience.