The apostle Paul is no champion of the idea that once a person is saved, they are always saved no matter what. Oh, he might appear to promote this concept occasionally, but the literal wording or extended context or clarification from his other writings indicates that he does not espouse it. An example is found in Romans 8, where he elaborates on how various factors cannot separate us from God's love and from our bond with Christ. Does this mean a person can never lose their salvation under any circumstances whatsoever? There is an overarching category in which these factors belong, one which ultimately has nothing to do with someone losing their salvation due to sin.
Romans 8:38-39—"For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Besides the more fundamental issue of all these things being governed by logical axioms and other necessary truths, each of them has something vital in common: nothing Paul lists in Romans 8:38-39 is a behavior of the Christian. He or she cannot know the future or force angels or demons to submit by their own power. Some factors do remain within their control, however. Each person can voluntarily sin and refuse to repent. So, in other words, everything listed in Romans 8 or contained within their categories is external to the Christian.
Death, demons, the future, and more cannot remove us from God's love, but we can fall away ourselves. No force in all creation can overpower God's love or our connection to God and Christ—that is, regarding the latter, nothing can undo our connection to God and to Christ but our own failings. I and any other Christian could sin to the point of disregarding God, trivializing moral obligations, and prioritizing some wicked intention or course of action over the eternal life promised to genuine followers of Yahweh and Christ. As other passages make clear, it is possible to fall away from one's salvation in various ways (Matthew 6:14-15, for instance).
Paul does not teach eternal security, that a person who becomes "saved" will always have this position before God if they sin without concern (at least if they know what is and is not sin on Judeo-Christianity) and have no interest in repentance, especially if their sins are particularly severe. In his epistles, he warns about forfeiting the harvest (Galatians 6:7-9) and speaks of finishing the race (2 Timothy 4:6-8), which requires that one can fail to finish it. He clearly does not claim that our actions are totally irrelevant to whether we remain saved, only that our righteous deeds alone do not acquire salvation for us after we have already sinned, as it is bestowed out of mercy (Ephesians 2:4-9).
A multitude of verses are quite relevant to the matter of falling away from God, including some in Ezekiel 33. That we can transition from a state of righteousness or salvation to sin and loss of salvation or vice versa is a double-edged sword, one that offers hope for the wicked and warning to the righteous:
Ezekiel 33:12-16—"'Therefore, son of man, say to your people, "If someone who is righteous disobeys, that person's former righteousness will count for nothing. And if someone who is wicked repents, that person's former wickedness will not bring condemnation. The righteous person who sins will not be allowed to live even though they were formerly righteous." If I tell a righteous person that they will surely live, but then they trust in their righteousness and do evil, none of the righteous thing that person has done will be remembered; they will die for the evil they have done. And if I say to a wicked person, "You will surely die," but then they turn away from their sin and do what is just and right—if they give back what they took in pledge for a loan, return what they have stolen, follow the decrees that give life, and do no evil—that person will surely live; they will not die. None of the sins that person has committed will be remembered against them. They have done what is just and right; they will surely live.'"
Thankfully, logically and Biblically, there is nothing impossible about returning to God after one has turned from life to death. Regarding pure logic, it does not follow from having lost one's salvation that one will always remain unsaved, no matter how righteous one becomes (just like the inverse!). Biblically, even the more intense warning about losing salvation in Hebrews 6 ends with saying that the metaphorical ground which bears thorns and thistles as opposed to crops is in danger of being cursed, not that all mercy is withheld automatically forever if one does truly fall into lack of commitment to God/morality or sins without repentance. If someone stubbornly, apathetically persists in unrepentance to the very end, then he or she will be burned to death in Gehenna. There is always the logical possibility of repentance as long as a person is still alive (in this life and the next), and as the ostensibly unforgiving doctrines of the Old Testament establish long before the New Testament, Yahweh will forgive the genuinely contrite. No exceptions are listed in passages like the one from Ezekiel shown above.
There is no limitation on forgiveness based on the number of sins someone has committed or for any type of sin. But to take divine forgiveness for granted and sin, as if moral obligation, moral standing, justice, and salvation (mercy which delivers us from the justice of the second death) are a mere game one can rig in one's favor at the last moment, would be horrid. All salvation for sinful beings stems from mercy, which means it is not owed to anyone, and God still offers it, though to trivialize that mercy by carelessly disregarding it and never returning to Yahweh even after the resurrection is damnable. The sinner has no one to rightfully blame but themself. Spiritual beings, time, and other people cannot snatch away our salvation; still, it is a foolish person who gambles with theirs and cares nothing for their error, for it is their action or inaction over which God could revoke the gift of eternal life.
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