We cannot earn our faith that is true but we can depart from it.
1 Timothy 4:1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
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True conversion is measured by visible fruit. Apostasy is not a loss of salvation, but rather a demonstration that salvation was never truly possessed to begin with.
Apostates
Jude 1:16-19: "These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.
These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit" (not saved)
Jude 1:3-4: "Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. For
certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord Godand our Lord Jesus Christ"
1 John 2:19: "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but
they went out that they might be made manifest, that
none of them were of us" - the sign of an apostate is that he eventually
falls away and departs from the truth of God’s Word and His righteousness. John signifies this is a mark of a false believer.
Titus 1:15-16: "To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. They
profess to know God, but
in works they deny Him (no good fruits/not saved), being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work"
Ephesians 5:8: "For you were once darkness, but now
you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light" - true believers have been delivered out of spiritual darkness into light, therefore will not deny core truths of Scripture.
Matthew 15:14: "Let them alone. They are
blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
2 Thess 2:3: "Let no one deceive you by any means; for
that Day will not come unless the
falling away comes first"
2 Tim 3:1-5: "But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!"
1 Timothy 4:1-2 deals with the issue of false teachers who were not saved to begin with. This is the area of apostasy. The basic meaning of apostasy is "to fall away from the faith that one
professed to have, but never really had." It has to do with people who made a show of faith, claiming to be believers but then, little by little, gave in to seducing, demonic spirits and teaching of false doctrines.
Verse 2..... "speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry,
and commanding to abstain from foods
which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth" - those who are truly saved, that know the truth, would be able to discern truth from falsehoods. One does not abandon the truth for a lie, unless they are not saved, in which case they live in darkness and are easily controlled by Satan.
The doctrine of losing salvation, not being secure in Christ, not being sealed unto redemption, maintaining your own salvation, denying God keeps us, etc - these are all apostate teachings!
♥♥♥Philippians 1:6: "being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ"♥♥♥