2 Peter 3:17If you don't follow then I would say it's safe to say you were never saved to begin with. Reason? No on can fall from His hands. If we actually feel that we can fall from the hands of Jesus then according to John 10:27-30 God can lie. So can God lie or are we held safe in the hands of Jesus once we have the saving faith in Jesus? It's a one or the other it cannot be both.
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.
is following a choice??? you did not read post#120 what was in red....did you? the purpose of the epistles is to keep believers from falling....which means men do fall....yet if one fall you say they were never saved to begin with....take a little time to read 2Peter 1:1-10 see what it takes or a man not to fall