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Originally Posted by Baptistrw
If you could lose eternal life, then it wasn't very eternal was it? If you don't do anything to earn your salvation, and the Christian life is about abiding in Christ, how can someones works cause them to lose it? It's illogical and not possible. I think what many people call "backslidden Christians" are people who were never saved to begin with, whom Jesus never knew.
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Considering this man was a long time pastor in the Baptist faith, maybe you can shed some light on the situation? All I know is that his wife left him for another man. He left the church, began to drink himself to death, and wanted nothing to do with God there after.