Can You Depart From The Faith?

Can You Depart From The Faith?

The Bible isn't very clear about whether you can lose your salvation or not. It is not as straightforward to simply quote Scriptures and say that 'Once saved, always saved'.

Neither is it easy to simply quote Scriptures and say, "You can walk out of your salvation and lose it.'

I have studied thoroughly through the Scriptures and heard different teachings. Each school of thoughts may sound very confident and convincing, but they could not explain the literal translation of some Scriptures.

There are still many questions centering around those Scriptures where it is hard to find an explicit answer.

One thing I know is this... the early church focused on discipleship. Once someone gets saved, he gets discipled to continue the journey of faith. There is no turning back. He keeps on running the race, thus there is no need to question if you can walk out of your salvation. The early church didn't need to question that because they set their face on following Christ.

On another note, the Scriptures do talk about departing from the faith, which is not necessarily about losing your salvation.

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons... - 1 Tim 4:1

This reveals that even believers can turn away from Christ if they go into the doctrines of demons. However, I believe that this can easily be dealt with. Anything that has to do with demons is easy. What is difficult is worldly possessions.

But those 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡 fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 is a root of all kinds of evils. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 that 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 and pierced themselves with many pangs. - 1 Tim 6:9-10

When one desires to be rich, he is putting himself on the path of wandering away from the faith. It is very subtle, because most people will use their family as an excuse.

My company always teaches, "At the end of the day, why are you working so hard to earn more money? It's all for your family." The statement sounds true, but the intent comes from a lie. How much is enough? And what is contentment? When there are many top sales agents in a company, who benefits from it, whether in reputation or monetarily?

For this reason, so many agents departed from the faith in the way they handle people in the business. For this reason, they work so hard and go after luxurious, material things. For this reason, they neglect their family life. For this reason, they push clients to buy new launch properties at a high price. For this reason, the conscience has been seared and they start believing that what they have wrongly believed in is true and great.

Departing from the faith is more subtle than we think. It is in our daily pursuit that reveals if we are heading in the wrong direction.