Read chapter 6
Once you're saved are you always saved? Can you lose your salvation? Well according to this passage in Hebrews it seems you can, BUT that is only if you're applying that this letter of Hebrews was written to you right now in this moment of time. We must remember that yes we can learn from scripture to know God more but not everything is commanded to and for us today; i.e. God told Noah to build an ark, we don't read it that we should therefore build an ark today, that was to a specific person at a specific time.
So what is God saying here through the writer of Hebrews? Well let's look more intently at this verse. You'll notice there is a list of things that follow the believer: enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, partakers of the Holy Spirit, tasted of the good word of God and the powers of the age to come. The letter of Hebrews was written in the Acts period to Jews. The Acts period was a unique time that lasted around 30 years after Christ resurrection and miracles and signs were manifest and abundant, like a short glimpse of the kingdom on earth. So what's spoken to these people at this time is because they were experiencing God in a way that was impossible to deny. Bible teacher Nathan C. Johnson explains this passage as so:
In the Acts period, the Lord was working in such a way that people would be clearly enlightened to the truth. When they saw miracles worked, or perhaps, if they were ill, even had miracles worked upon them, they had tasted of the heavenly gift, and had shared in holy spirit. They had heard and seen demonstrated (when they saw the miracles) the truth of the gospel, and thus had tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the eon to come. If, after all this, they fell away and utterly rejected the truth, it was impossible to renew them to submission at that point. They were not deceived, they did not have any doubts, they KNEW that this was the truth, they KNEW that this was God, and they KNOWING rejected it. Thus, there was nothing more that could be done for them. God would not degrade His word by presenting it to them once again. They have with full knowledge of what they are doing agreed with those who put Christ on the cross (although those who actually put Him there did NOT know what they were doing.) Thus, they show contempt for Christ, and God will deal with them no longer. This is not anything that anyone has experienced today, or a situation that anyone could find himself in today. We have definitely not experienced any of these things. (www.precepts.wordpress.com)
So what passage in scripture does prove if we can or cannot lose our salvation for those who believe in the day and dispensation we live in?
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