[arderkrag]

That is referring to how your life will end up - worse than you started. It does not suggest in any way that one can become unsaved.

[pastorbillrandles]

In what possible sense would it have been "better not to have known the way of righteousness..."? For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.