For those who are born again yet appear to live a life of sin, no human being can know nor judge what happens to them up until the last moment of physical life. So none of us can say the person never repented and never returned.

The path to holiness (sanctification) for every single child of God is a life-long process. Until that process is complete, every single child of God will sin.

Christ did not come to stop us from sinning. He came because we could not as long as we are in this corruptible flesh. He came so that sin would no longer have dominion over us. That is not the same thing is coming to stop us from sinning. That is why the Bible says when we who are believers sin, we have an advocate with the Father. Christ came, in part, so that we could be saved by grace through faith anyway.

If Christ came to stop us from sinning, that would mean that He failed. Because every child of God still sins. If we say we don’t, we lie. I challenge any person to find any human being on this planet, who does not sin every single month of their life in some way.

It is spiritually, ignorant, spiritually, arrogant, and not your job to look at a group of sins that a person commits and say that they are not worthy to go to heaven because of those sins. How dare you judge another persons salvation and hide behind the word of God to express who you think should not be able to get in.

Many of you are assuming that a person was a born-again believer just because they said so. But if the fruit of the Holy Spirit is not continually present in their lives, then that would mean only one of two things. Either the Holy Spirit is failing at doing His job. Or that person does not have the fruit of the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is not present, thus the person is not a child of God. Regardless of what they say, how much they pray and look spiritual, or how much they go to church.

The Bible clearly outlines that the wheat and the tares have grown up together. The sheep and the goats have come up together. The dog returns to its vomit because it is still a dog. It is not a dog that turned into a sheep, then turned back into a dog. It was always a dog with some of the behaviors of a sheep on the outside. But that never made it a sheep.

Therefore, the dog went back to its natural character because its characters never really changed. God always knew that it was a dog acting like a sheep, not a real cheap. And therefore not a member of the flock. For the dog, it was an act. And that is why the Bible says that if they were of us, they would have stayed with us. But the fact that they didn’t, showed that they were never of us. That is also why the Bible said even though they did the works of those of us who are believers, they had a form of godliness, but denying the actual power which transforms them. That is why the Bible also said that God NEVER knew them so He said for them to depart, not that He once knew them, and He doesn’t know them anymore.

For those of you who say a life of “willful sin” will get a person’s eternal life revoked, how do you know how much of their sin is willful and how much of it is my error or ignorance?

How do you know whether he or she is born again in the first place or not born again and actually in bondage to sin. You don’t know. You just want to judge somebody else’s sin as worse than yours. Be careful with that. Without grace, none of us would receive Eternal Life and none of us are qualified to go to Heaven, no matter how many good works we do. Including you.

For those of you who say a life of “willful sin” will get a person’s eternal life revoked, how do you know how much of their sin is willful and how much of it is my error or ignorance?

How do you know whether he or she is born again in the first place or not born again and actually in bondage to sin. You don’t know. You just want to judge somebody else’s sin as worse than yours. Be careful with that. Without grace, none of us would receive Eternal Life and none of us are qualified to go, no matter how many good words we do. Including you.

To answer the request for an example of someone losing their salvation
while under the new covenant, there is one that comes to mind right off.
Acts 5: 1-10 has the details of Ananias and his wife. As to Ananias’ sin, Peter told Ananias, “Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit”. To his wife it was ask, why did you agreed to lie and “put the Spirit of the Lord to the test?” So, is there someone in eternity with God and has Satan in his heart? Or, is there someone who tested the power of the Holy Spirit and failed also in eternity with God? 1 John 5:16 suggest there is not!
“If you see your BROTHER committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask and God will for him give life to those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that should make request for him”.
An important fact to remember when studying these things is stated in John 6: 63. “It is the Spirit who gives life”. Also see Acts 2:28 to receive LIFE.

we are saved by grace of God by faith in Jesus Christ.

On the Cross were 2 thieves one told him if you are the King of the Jews then save us and yourself. the other thief said we are here because of our crimes and he; Jesus has not sinned and did not belong on this cross. he asked Jesus to remember him when he got to his Kingdom and Jesus responded he would enter paradise that day.

The scripture that states the one unforgiveable sin is in Mark 3: 29.
Blasphemy is “to speak contemptuously of God, railing against God”. (BLB search Bible dictionary). The Holy Spirit gives life (John 6: 63). This spiritual life is given at baptism (Acts 2:38) while being “born again” (John 3:5-6). The conclusion would then follow if you have denied this gift of the Holy Spirit, never born again, stayed in death, there is no other way of forgiveness to receive eternal life. The way to forgiveness is the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ (John 8: 32). He is the only way to God. (John 14: 6). The Holy Spirit bears the Word of truth. (1 John 5:7). Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. (John 1: 17) Also to connect all this is Romans 6: 1-7.

I think that both were saved. The one thief rebukes the other for his lack of compassion. And Christ tells this rebuker he too will be in Paradise with him.
Since the blood of forgiveness is at this moment being shed, My heart tells me that these men who are sharing in his tribulation will also share in his glorification before the Father. For it is at this moment that the Priesthood ceases to exist. No one after this moment needs the intercession of a man before the altar to be atoned. For Christ himself is the sacrifice and the atonement.
No human can damn or redeem their fellows. The price is paid and the door is opened.

Jesus mentioned one sin as “unpardonable”, and that was blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Within the context of when Jesus spoke on that sin, His response to the Pharisees’ claim that He was casting out demons by the Prince of demons (Satan), this unpardonable sin probably has something to do with what the Pharisees in that conversation were doing. This blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is probably the unpardonable sin to which this blog post alludes.