What does it mean to fall away? People have loosely used this phrase to describe a backslitting
Christian whereas the Bible commonly uses it to describe apostasy, which by biblical definition
is referring to a person who has transgressed and abandoned the doctrines of Christ,
which includes but is not limited to the doctrine of salvation, the deity of Jesus,
the Trinity, and the resurrection, and such like things. 1 Timothy 4-1 states,
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith,
giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. People have used this verse to wrongly
assert that if a Christian apostatizes, it means they lost their salvation. But the biblical
diagnosis would be that that person was never saved to begin with. 1 Corinthians 15-2 states,
By which ye are saved, if ye keep in memory the things that have preached unto you,
unless ye have believed in vain. Vain meaning empty, thus never possessing a belief in Christ
to begin with. Safe people can backslide, but they'll never apostatize. Hebrews 10-38
But we are not of them that draw back unto perdition, but believe to the saving of the soul.