Can New Testament Believers 'BACKSLIDE?'

Dennis Pollock teaches what the New Testament says about backsliding.

[JohnSmith-ugci]

Dennis you usually do very good in explaining the bible but this time you are way off.
"Backsliding for the believer is one of the false doctrines that has risen in the church. There is no such thing as "backsliding" of an individual. Backsliding is only mentioned in the OT and it is only applied to Israel as a nation, NEVER to an individual or to believers. Biblically a backslider is a people who have never known the Lord. Their forefathers knew Him but they are backslidden from previous generations.
You are taking scripture out of context.

It is always applied to the lost that were NEVER saved, comparing them to past generations of those who were saved, and as I said ONLY to the nation Israel. Again no saved person can "backslide."

1John 3:9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

So you see it is IMPOSSIBLE for a real believer to return to sinning. Those who return are all false proclaimers.

1John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.