Can a Christian Lose Their Salvation?

Mills75- You are crying for ME? I am appalled by your naivete.

I'm goin' straight to Hell, and i'm glad of it. There'll be so many of us, the hours are gonna be real short. The rest of you clowns can spend eternity massaging the ego of the adolescently insecure deity, i'll be happy where i'm at.

if a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

Sarcasm doesn't sink in much with you, does it, Boss? When Paris was in the grip of the Revolution, and the Committee for Public Safety was in charge, Maximilien Robespierre had signs put up on the walls of all the cemeteries which read, translated into English: "Here is only eternal sleep." The only thing that murderous bastard and his toadies ever came up with with which i agree.

Alleging that there is a heaven or a hell is an extraordinary contention. Those who make such claims have the burden of proof. Absent plausible evidence, for my purposes, there is no heaven, there is no hell--there is only eternal sleep.

If you are saved, but then choose not to go to heaven, will God force you to go?

I would refuse heaven on principle.. I think the whole idea is unjust.

If they made me go, I wouldn't enjoy it.

(BTW I fall in the once saved category.)

I do have a question though and I am very sincere in asking this because I don't understand it. I have seen in these threads and have often heard, "I was once saved." Now, as a Christian, I have always believed that once saved, always saved. Would you mind telling me your thoughts on this?

That sounds a little like a "Deep Thought" by Jack Handy.

Jack Handy wrote:

if a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

Mills75 wrote:

That sounds a little like a "Deep Thought" by Jack Handy.

Jack Handy wrote:

if a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

This reminds me of a t-shirt I once saw on a baby. It was a picture of a six pack of beer and said "Daddy drinks because I cry."

The argument for this question of losing salvation has long been; "was the person actually saved to begin with"?

However, the following scriptures seem to answer this.

Hebrews 10:26, 27
26If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

2 Peter 2:20-21
20If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning. 21It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.

Any thoughts?

I am truly appalled at the obvious lack of respect in most of these posts and truly, truly saddened for each of you displaying that lack of respect.

Actually baddog1, this is what I have been taught and, yes, what I believe. I find it hard to understand that if one accepts Christ as their Savior (sincerely, honestly, and fully) then they would not lose that.