In Saved? the question I am wrestling with is: 

Can a believer turn away from God and lose their salvation?

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Some will argue that if a believer falls away and never returns, they have lost their salvation. Others maintain that such a person may have appeared to be a believer earlier in life (appeard saved) but they never truly were.  

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In thinking through this question, the crux of the matter seems to turn on what it means to be saved. It seems to me that someone who does not ultimately end up in heaven can't really be said to have been saved at any time, any more than the drowing victim in the story, although it appeared for a time that she was.

 

Therefore, although I may have arrived at the conclusion by a different path, I would have to agree with John Calvin on this matter. When a person is truly saved, even though they may rebel for a time, they will always be saved.  And their lives as a whole will reflect that. King David in Scripture – the adulterer, murderer, prophet, and man after God's own heart – is a prime example.   

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"For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Romans 8:38-39

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