what I think I thought…

I have come to realize I don’t think the phrase “losing salvation” is accurate.

That is how one question for this weekend was asked…”can a person lose their salvation?”

When asked that way I think from now on I am going to have to answer no.  I don’t think a person can lose salvation.

Because losing something implies it’s misplaced.  “Where are my keys?”  “Has anyone seen my wallet?”  “Where did I put that paper…it was right here a moment ago?”

I don’t think that concept applies to salvation.  No one is to be checking their pockets and digging through their purse looking for their salvation saying to themselves…”where did it go…it was right here?”

That just isn’t Biblical.

2 Peter 2:20-21…says this:

If 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. It 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.

The people spoken of here had escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,  but got entangled and overcome by it again.  Peter says it would have been better had they never known the way of righteousness. Than to have known it and…here is the big finally…TURNED THEIR BACKS on it.

They didn’t lose it.  They knew exactly where it was…it was in Jesus.  They didn’t lose it.  They walked away from it.  They didn’t misplace it.  They made a choice that they no longer wanted it.

So…do I think people can lose their salvation…NO.  Do I think people can of their own free will turn their back and walk away from it….YES.  As Peter says…when they do…it will be worse off for them at the end then it was at the beginning.