I feel strongly about this. NO WAY. God sent His Son to be crucified once and for all for our sins. That's final.

All sin is the same. The only sin that is not forgiven is the sin of not accepting His Son as Savior. Once saved, God makes a change in that person's heart and he/she would be transformed. Does that stop a saved born-again Christian from sinning? No. However, He has already forgiven us at the cross. He does discipline us though and He will withdraw from our lives and let Satan have his way with us. However, He would never withdraw the saving grace His Son has paid for once and for all.

So, we cannot and will never lose our salvation if we accept His Son as Savior in our heart and like legitimite children of His, He will dicipline us if needed.

Also, to add, I have read a claim a long time ago of a pastor claiming to be a dynamic Christian when he entered the pastorial ministry. However, since then, in his book, he claimed that he now denies Christ and is openly defying the Lord. It's a sad, sad story.

The reality of this ex-pastor is that he NEVER was saved to begin with. He only claimed He was. A believer of anybody losing their salvation would claim that this was proof it was possible. Yet, by his fruits, it appears that he was an unsaved pastor. Keep in mind that even those in the highest positions in the church can still be unsaved. The truth is that the only One that truly knows about our status as being saved is God Himself. We can suspect whether or not a person is saved by reading the Bible and knowing how a true Christian lives by their fruits.

if you are really and truly saved, you never lose it. it is a free gift. you do however get disciplined for sinning, because there are consequences that happen as the result of our "misbehaving". after all, god is our heavenly father, and every good parent must correct their children. however, the full price of our salvation has been secured by the sacrifice of jesus. here is the key reason why i believe this: if we can do nothing on our own to be good enough to secure our place in heaven, then we can do nothing bad enough to lose it once it has been accepted by us. i do believe that there are many who think they are saved, but in reality are not. they have had an "encounter" with god, but have not really accepted his free gift of salvation. that is why i believe there will be many that will be crying out to the lord on the day of judgment, confused as to why they will not be let into heaven.

Gzusthug, would you ever stop loving that little boy who shares your profile pic with you? No, even if he stopped loving you. This is what God's family is like. Once His children are His, no matter if they turn against Him, He will save them...to honor His own Word.

If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that He was
raised from the dead you WILL be saved.

If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that He was
raised from the dead you WILL be saved.

Take this truth to heart and stand on it. Make Jesus the Lord of you life and confess Him before men, and stop worrying and arguing about the what ifs.

I grew up in a Church that taught if you was a member of that Church when you died you'd go to heaven.I walked away from that Church when I was 17 and became a Christian when I was 32 years old... I may not of known Jesus but He knew me...

I agree with Jeff. Before I was saved, I worried over the proper way to approach God. He wants to save you, so don't worry, just go to Him. Here is part of my testimony from my journal;

Fear was your prison.You felt like a bad mother. You thought for sure God was going to hit you where it hurt and take your children from you. You paced the floor. You tried to read the Bible from the hospital dresser drawer. It didn't make anymore sense to you , than it did when you tried to read it when you were 13. You couldn't get past the fact that God banished Adam and Eve from the special garden for making one mistake.



You could see your home from the hospital window and you wanted so badly, to go back to the safe place. You started to think about heaven and how it seemed like the best safe place to be. You didn't want your children to die for the things you had done wrong over the years. If they were going to die, you wanted them to be able to go to heaven. They did have the time to do anything as bad as what you had done. Your daughter was 4 and your son was 6. Surely their goodness would earn them a place in heaven, but you had been worried that your mounting sins would somehow tip the scale.







You wasn't on your knees, but all the same, your heart was on its knees. You didn't say, Lord I'm a sinner, come into my life, but you did want God to know how sorry you were for the mistakes you had made. You backed up against the hospital door and told God you were sorry that you were not like Jesus. You were sorry it took you so long to forgive people. You was utterly taken aback by what happened in that moment. You "felt" a rushing sensation flow over you and through you at the same time. It was kind of hard to describe but it kinda felt like "goose bumps" inside your body. You thought perhaps, that is what it feels like when God's love splashes against the cold walls of an empty space that he has waited so long to fill. Up until that point, the greatest love that you had ever known was your relationship with your husband, Terry. You felt accepted, loved, forgiven and protected all at once. Many negative things left you that day.






You were on cloud nine. Something wonderful happened to you and you did not know why. You searched for more answers. When you told people about it, some had pity on you, and some told you it was of God. Your sister, the one who told you about Jesus when you were young, shared her experience with you. It felt good that someone understood you. You were hungry for more truth. You thought you were a Christian because you knew about God and Jesus. You didn't know them, and what you thought you knew about them, was all wrong. In your eagerness for answers, you fell easily for anything anyone was saying about God and the Bible. It has been a long journey for you, but the more you talked to God and read in the Bible, the stronger your faith became and your heart grew closer to Jesus.