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Originally Posted by handmaiden
Everybody knows that people who claim to have been Real® Christians and then decide the Bible isn't true fall into one of two categories.
They really were saved and have now fallen away in deliberate rebellion. God will deal with them by making their lives miserable or take them home early so that they cannot lead others astray. Either way, you can't lose True Salvation© 'cause the Blood of Christ washes out sins--it doesn't wash out itself.
Other people who talk about leaving Christianity were probably deluding themselves about being saved in the first place and are just plain going to Hell. You can't drink from The Living Waters and then stop being thirsty for The Lord. It don't work that way.
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Oh, my goodness; yes, this is so very true, dear Sister Handmaiden. My dear Daddy (a Pentecostal evangelist) used to warn the people that the
will separate the wheat from the chaff, as is written within
Holy
; and, we are seeing this in these days:
Matthew 3:12 "Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge
floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."
It appears that the people who fall away have lost their commitment to Almighty
-- if they really had any, at all. So, the phony "believers" shall lose their way, unless they repent of their waywardness, and listen to the exhortations of those of us who sincerely follow
in all that we do -- the
believers -- here, at
.
Matthew 5:48 "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."
For some, perfection is not feasible, most likely because their heart is not really committed to serving the
. However, it is written that this is possible, as we know, at
. And, to the
goeth the
II Corinthians 12:9 "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of
may rest upon me."