Can a Saved Person Totally Abandon the Faith?

What about Christians who become atheists or adopt another religion?

[donaugustine]

The answer to the question was spot on. No believer will totally abandon his or her Faith in Christ.
They can't.
If they truly believe.

[mikeramos]

The Bible also says it is better for you to have never known the truth, then to know the truth & turn your back.

[dr.heinzdoofenshmirtz]

1 John 2:19:"They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us." Those who fall away were never truly Christians. Those who are truly saved don't fall away

[onestepaway]

Once you experience God’s Grace you will never turn away. Stumble and fall sure, but walk away not a chance.

[sierraclark]

Hey, Jesus Christ saves and He loves you😁✝️

[Tatiana-cpfc]

Love you Frank but this one, I can't agree with. OSAS is false...

[MrFahimself]

“You can lose your fellowship with Jesus Christ and still be saved”??
I don’t believe that’s true

[pammishful]

This isn't right, don't believe it. Once saved always saved is a lie of the devil. "For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, " Hebrews 10:26

[jdshl]

Every time someone's "salvation" comes into question, I am always reminded of the parable of the sower. If someone can fall away, that person was never the Lord's to begin with, and was never saved.

I'd like to believe that God knows who would be saved because He is eternal, that is, time-less. That means God can already see each person's coming to faith, and falling away, whether it be once, or in repetitive cycles. And since God also knows when we would die, that final time someone returns to faith before death, God seals that person as His own.

If you take Frank's version of instant justification and then continuous sanctification, until the time of death, then God can also seal a person as His own from the very first coming to faith, regardless of the number of cycles of falling away, because God already knows if that person would be in faith before death.

This is the only way I can understand justification to happen for salvation to be "once saved, always saved". Not sure if any of this makes actual sense, but suffice to say, only God knows who is His own, and the best that we can do is to remain in faith.

[timgreen]

You can’t lose something you didn’t earn or deserve to begin with....Ephesians 2:8-9.

[ironmike]

People turn from the faith all the time. Continue in Jesus. Keep your lamp lit.

[matthartley]

No. This is not the truth.

Jude says they are "twice dead" and "plucked up by the roots".

These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jude:1:12

Can't be twice dead unless you've been twice born. That's why John the Revelator spoke of a sin unto death.

The good news is Jesus is faithful to forgive us our sins if we confess them to Him. He is merciful and longsufering. Remember thy first love and do thy first works again, oh lukewarm, He will spew you out if you do not repent.

[ayekaye]

“If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”
‭‭I John‬ ‭1:6-7‬

[Mark-ybsp]

I used to DEEPLY believe in the Pentecostal/ Charismatic life style. Once I got burned and started looking into it for MYSELF (and stopped being a Lemming), then I saw the truth of Christ and I cannot imagine myself ever going back. Many of my friends think I have fallen away from the Lord, but in reality, I never knew Him until now.
Not sure if this helps anyone, but it’s only NOW that I’m awake and living a truthful life.

[johnnyb]

Idk, I'm so conflicted about this issue. When I was 15 I believe I was saved (per my friends at youth group I was) at that time but I did turn my back on the faith.
years later I came back to Jesus. Idk how it happened but now I'm reading my Bible and telling my family.

Perhaps God let me go to see the world for what it was, and how dark it is.

[shantalnino]

I'm very disappointed in this answer. I really enjoy your videos but I disagree on this one.

[devinh]

I’m sorry Frank but I’m absolutely gutted by your answer. I have to unfortunately unsubscribe to your channel. I don’t think your answer was accurate.

[chrisinidaho]

Heb. 6:1-6 says that true believers can lose their salvation through sin. Once Saved / Always Saved is a heresy.

[loisjones]

What about having you name blotted out of the book of life?

[jackjones]

This is a great answer. He offers the distinction of sanctification, the process of being more Christlike, and justification which is the point we accept Christ as the Lord and Savior, repenting of our sin.