Can someone with true faith in Jesus Christ lose his or her salvation?
First, we need to define the word faith? Faith is trust. You can’t just have “trust.” You have to trust something. The object of saving faith is Jesus Christ, His death in your place and His resurrection life. Saving faith is a transfer of trust from unstable, untrustworthy things to Christ, who is ultimately stable and trustworthy. Saving faith is a gift that God gives to spiritually dead people. Ephesians 2 says that we all start out dead in sin, but God in His rich mercy and great love takes some of us dead people and makes us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. In Ephesians 1:4, we find that God chose some before the foundation of the world. The next verse says that He predestined them to be adopted as His children. Romans 8 says that there are those whom God foreknew and predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son. And those He predest
