Can a person walk away from their salvation?
Salvation is forever. Salvation is permanent and can NEVER be lost (Ephesians 1:13).
Do you have to be born again to be saved?
There really is no difference. A person must be born-again to be saved. When a person is born-again a spirit is born in them and that spirit communes with Christ and with the Father. Joh 3:5-6 “‘Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.
What is the difference between born again and salvation?
Being “born again” is a mistranslation of the Greek for being “born from above” and refers to water baptism. “Being saved” refers to a person who has died, and is judged by Our Blessed Lord as having died in His Love with no unforgiven mortal sin on his soul.
Does a person who turns away from God lose their salvation?
In this situation, a person who turns away is not losing their salvation, as they were never saved. Most of those who believe in once saved always saved brush away the following verses by claiming they only apply to those who where never saved.
What does the Bible say about falling away from the faith?
Hebrews 6:4-6, warns against falling away from the faith and those who do, cannot not be brought back to repentance because they are “crucifying the Son of God all over again.”
What does the Bible say about eternal life?
“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” (John 3:16). Eternal life is the promise of spending forever in heaven with God. God promises, “Believe and you will have eternal life.” For a Christian to lose salvation,…
Is salvation a once-and-done event?
For Orthodox Christians, salvation is a process, not a once-and-done event. It is because of the understanding of some Protestant bodies which hold that one is saved at a precise moment—when one makes a commitment to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, or at some other moment in time—that much confusion arises.