For my Christian brothers and sisters ... regarding grace and forgiveness!

Well I know for a fact you can lose your salvation. I have been their. When I was 22 years old I moved away from home and lived with a women that was gay. I lived with her and her lover for 6 years and I got into that lifestyle. I started to drink and all that stupid stuff. It went on for 13 years. I know I had left the Lord and I felt him calling me back but I believed the lie of the devil that I couldn't be forgiven for the lifestyle I have lived. After I had my son I gave my heart and life back to Jesus. He has done a great work in my life since. So I have experianced losing salvation, but finally came back to God. I thank Him that He forgave me.

I have to say that this is an issue which has cropped up many times in my experience and I would say that 'No' you can't loser your salvation, to teach that you can (and I know plenty who do) actually diminishes Christs' sacrifice in my opinion. The question remains 'when do I know that I am saved?' and that is the crux of the issue. You have correctly recognised that there is a distinction between confession of faith and believing in ones heart. There are plenty of people who confess faith, but no-one other than Father, Son and Holy Spirit can possibly know the state of someone's heart. For myself, I drifted away from the Lord in my twenties and was living a life that was not edifying to my God. At NO point during this episode of my life did I feel I had lost my salvation, Christs' sacrifice covered all my wrongdoings, and coming back into the Lords' presence was glorious, and you know what? he blessed me so much as soon as I came back into the fold. Teaching that you can lose your salvation or not is not a central part of our faith, more of a side issue.. Though if you think about it, it makes Gods' saving grace conditional, but that requires some thinking through. Obviously it is an easy choice for some church leaders to suggest that you can lose your salvation, and one should never imply that we have carte blanche to embark an any life-style safe in the knowledge that your salvation is sealed - But, that said I think you will find that a soul once written in the 'Lambs book of life' cannot be erased.

I believe what you believe once saved always saved...I have talked about this situation with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law. They question a certain person, in our lives, salvation. They express that if this person at one time confessed Christ as thier savior and no doesn't give it two thoughts. Doesn't live his life the way he should...does that mean he is still saved. My answer to that was I have no clue...expect what the Bible gives us. God knows where this person's heart is...so I guess He is the only one that truly knows.

"Once saved, always saved" is the Calvinistic view. That is not in the Holy Bible. Belief is just one of the requisites of salvation. Confession of Jesus is another. And so you are not saved by just believing and confessing. All those to which Romans and Ephesians, etc. are spoken of to be saved are all baptized into Christ - baptism into Christ is a requisite of salvation. You become a child of God upon baptism into Christ. Obedience is another to be considered. All those who are saved OBEYED. All these things are in the New Testament. Study the Holy Bible as a whole to understand the whole counsel of God so that you will be saved and not thrown to hell.

I have always believed once saved always saved. I've been questioned about it lots and lots. Here is what i base my belief on... its simple. John 3:16 says for god so loved the world that whosoever believth in him should have everlasting life. that statement is followed by a period... Theres no conditions following that scripture.

if you may,let me impart my views on this matter. Salvation is certain when you confess your sins and receive Christ as your personal Lord and savior. We must love the Lord with all our heart, with all our mind and with all our soul, as stated in the Bible. But being a Christian holds a huge responsibility that is why it is very hard to be a christian or living life in a christian way.This means that you have to be atleast free of sins and follow what pleases the Lord. But we all fall short from God's glory, as stated in the Bible again. From then, we can certainly loose our salvation if we will always allow sin to entice us or even dwelling on it. What is important is that, despite of the fact that human can not avoid himself from doing sins he must therefore confess and work real hard not to commit the same mistakes again. But I really have this faith, our God is a forgiving God He will always have the heart to forgive us no matter how adverse our sins are as long as we don't fail to ask for his forgiveness. God Bless!

A person becomes a son of God through repentance and faith in the finished work of Christ. Being a son, he is assured of his salvation and nothing can pluck him out off God's hands. Sonship is never lost and there are cases that some have drifted away due to several reasons but eventually are called back and were able to restore their good testimonies as children of God. This of course refers to people who have a genuine encounter with God in faith and not just a head knowledge and went through rituals of acceptance. If God will take away the rights of sonship everytime his children sin, nobody will be saved. Salvation is based solely on the unmerited favor of God.

I believe that once a person is saved than they are always saved too but you can backslide if you have disobeyed a commandment than you ask God to please for give you of your sin and to live in your heart again that is what I believe

lord jesus christ is our loving father, he forgives, still make mistakes he helps us not to do it, still gone, he punishes us mildly, you give your heart to him one you are saved, but tests come and go..

Where there is grace there is forgiveness. That is the truth! Regarding lose salvation, it's just not true. Once you've been given the salvation, GOD would not take it back. It's not like a child, when they give you their toy, they're mad at you, they could just bluntly say, give my toy back, because I'm mad at you. So, in my honest opinion, I don't see GOD like that at all. Once you have been given the salvation, then it's yours.

I agree with the Scriptural support of permanent salvation, even though we can fall away. Sometimes God wil allow us to have our own way and to apparently fall from grace, but I believe those who are truly saved will come back. God will only allow you to fall so far, then He will bring you back, and in that bringing back will use our own weaknesses and failures to make us see that we can really do nothing without Him.

u can find ur answer in the scriptures