Can a Christian Lose Salvation?

No. It is not possible for the Christian to lose salvation. But it is important to learn who is a Christian. A Christian is not everyone who claims to be a Christian. Sometimes we think that because someone prayed a prayer, goes to church, and has a changed behavior is a Christian.

But who is a Christian according to the Bible?

A Christian is someone who has wholly trusted Christ Jesus for the salvation. They have believed in Jesus Christ as the only sacrifice for their sins. A Christian is someone on whom the Holy Spirit has quickened granting them faith thus enabling them to believe in Jesus Christ.

Can a Christian Lose Salvation?

A Christian is Jesus’s sheep. Jesus said that He is a good Shepherd. In the parable of the lost sheep, Jesus left 99 to look for one which was lost. Losing salvation would mean that Jesus, the Good Shepherd would have lost His sheep. This is totally impossible because Jesus said he would never lose his sheep.

A Christian is a New Creation. Paul says that Christians are a new creation. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)For a Christian to lose salvation, it means they would have to be uncreated, go back to the old self. This is not possible since the old has passed away,

A Christian is a born-again person. As Jesus told Nicodemus, for one to enter the Kingdom of God, they must be born again (John 3:3). Now it seems that for a born-again believer to lose salvation, they will have to be unborn. This is totally impossible.

A Christian is justified before God.  To be justified means that they have been declared Righteous by God on the basis of Christ’s Righteousness, not by works (Galatians 2:16-17). For a believer to lose salvation, it means that God has to revoke that declaration. This would mean that God had lied which is impossible.

Salvation is a gift of God.  The Bible says that the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus (Romans 6:23). The gifts of God are unconditional. God won’t grant salvation today and take it tomorrow.

Objections to the view that Christians cannot lose salvation are about those who depart from the faith and those professing believers who live in continual, unrepentant sin. The Bible is very clear that those who eventually depart from the faith completely were never believers (1 John 2:19). They may have shown signs of repentance but they were not true Christians. It also says that those who live in continual, willful, and unrepentant sin are a clear indication that they are not believers. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. (1 John 3:9 NIV)