[tantiboh]

Judas was an Apostle of the Lord. Would the Lord call as His chosen a man who had not accepted His divinity and had faith in Him? Yet even Judas exercised his agency and forsook the Lord.

My uncle joined with a group of born-again Christians. He was saved.

Then he left the group over a dispute and later sexually molested my cousins, his nephews, and is now a few years into a decades-long jail sentence.

He can yet repent and return to the Lord; but he exercised his agency and lost his way. If he fails to make the right choices, will he still be saved on account of his previous confession of faith?

These are thorny issues, of course, and not cleanly resolved; but I do not accept the thesis that, once we accept the Lord, our course is set. This is why the Lord counsels us, in Matthew 10:22, “...he that endureth to the end shall be saved.”

[MHGinTN]

See Romans 3:27 concerning works v fiath ... and please quote passages in the context of the verses. You twist the scripture message to support a different notion than is being taught in the context of Matthew 10:22; gathering context from the scene, Jesus is instructing his disciples of is the trials of testimony before princes and kings under the duress to come in their witnessing of Him.

[Elsie]

If he fails to make the right choices, will he still be saved on account of his previous confession of faith?

Does he still BELIEVE that only Jesus can 'save' him; not any of his own works?

Does he believe he MUST be 'good' from now on, or he won't be 'saved'?

Only HE can answer those questions!