Is It Possible To Lose One's Salvation?
By keshlois143
@keshlois143 (713)
Philippines
March 28, 2012 3:53am CST
Many have been encountering a lot of preachers and teachers sharing the good news or the news on salvation. I have been hearing many people receiving Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior professing they are saved. Safe now and I see great better changes in their lives. They really seemed to be living with a christlike character. After some time, I can no longer figure out if they really are still saved.Well, salvation of our soul is significantly relevant knowing that the world seemed to be really temporal. But my question is can a person lose his salvation once he had claimed that he had already been saved?
6 responses
@iuliuxd (4453)
• Romania
28 Mar 12
I think you are being saved in every moment of your life, there isn`t a time when you can be certain that you are saved.Expect to fight with temptation till the last breath and that way you can be closer to salvation.In the end salvation is a gift, all you can do is to do your best to keep your part of the deal and to hope God will give you the gift.
@tallymommy77 (35)
• United States
29 Mar 12
Salvation comes through grace. Once you accept Jesus as your savior (see post below) you have the Holy Spirit and are saved.
@lampar (7584)
• United States
4 Apr 12
Of course it is possible to lose your salvation if you don't continue to live with the holy spirit and choose to go back to your old way of doing evil and un-christ like way of life. The salvation doesn't come just from your words alone, it has to be combined with deed and continual action on your part until the last day of your life after received salvation from Jesus. After the day your soul is being saved from condemnation, you will turn over as a new leaf from the first day, but if you submit to temptation later and cease to fight against your desire, the grace of God and holy spirit in you will leave, you will back to your pity old self without salvation as origin, after you forget about your promises with God and fill your life with sin again. 
@keshlois143 (713)
• Philippines
12 Apr 12
Thus, it cannot be lost? But what about those people I see who had once claimed and even proclaim such salvation but already in prison because of proven guilty of crime? Or the so-called backsliders? Are they still saved?
@tallymommy77 (35)
• United States
11 Apr 12
Salvation has nothing to do with your good works or words, it is given by grace when one accepts Jesus and takes the Holy Spirit in themself...ergo it cannot be lost...
@PastorP (1170)
• United States
29 Mar 12
Considering all the admonitions in the NT to remain in the faith, contend for the faith, strive to enter in, etc., -- yes one can lose their salvation, but not based on works, but due to the fact they have chosen to leave their relationship with Christ. Christ in John 15 tells us to abide in Him.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
Evidently if we don't abide in Him we spiritually die without Him.
@keshlois143 (713)
• Philippines
29 Mar 12
So, I have to abide in Him and His word in order to bear fruit? What does it mean to bear fruit, anyway?
With all of your ideas, I have also enlightened and I conclude that althrough life I have to get close to God and maintain being good.
@keshlois143 (713)
• Philippines
30 Mar 12
Ah, okay. Thanks for the additional knowledge about the fruit.And oh, without God I can do nothing...nothing good!! So, I have to have Him always for me to do something.
@PastorP (1170)
• United States
29 Mar 12
Well, these are not my ideas, but the Word of God, especially what I copied from John 15. I summarized a few items before that.
Here's some of the fruit we are to bear: (Gal. 5:22-23) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Now, let me take one of those, "gentleness." There are many people who are not true Christians that are gentle. However, God requires purity, and the only way we can have that is by being in Christ -- John 15:5... for without me ye can do nothing.
Aye, true salvation is having an ongoing relationship with God through Christ.
@JohnRok1 (2051)
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29 Mar 12
"From him that hath not will be taken away even that which he thinketh he hath" - that is "his" salvation. "From him that hath not will be taken away even that which he hath" - that is the semblance of salvation that he maintains even to himself.
You cannot lose your salvation if you have it. This is because if you are saved, it is because God has chosen you unconditionally and Christ has infallibly accomplished your salvation on the cross and in the resurrection and you will persevere to the end. But you can be falsely persuaded and can falsely persuade others that you are saved, whereas all you've in fact done is tasted of the powers of the world to come. This "salvation" you can and will lose.
@Myiendob (5)
• Kuwait
28 Mar 12
A very good question my friend . Its true one gets salvation and we rejoice together with the heavens . However , it is one thing to be born again and another to work out your salvation to grow . Now in the bible i meet salvation in three phases . These are the past, present and future. Then the bible is not ignorant about what a born again christian has to encounter in salvation because the enemies of salvation are always after us. Infact the born again are in danger more than the pagan. Therefore a saved christian can fall back and loose .
