I was just wondering at what point am I able to take back what I turned over to God. In other words, am I even able to take it back?
I imagine one would not want to if one had a honest conversion.. The question came up in conversation over a decade ago and I always wondered about it.
By the way, I was not trying to refute your initial post.
My personal belief, wino, and I believe it is biblical, is that we cannot snatch ourselves from Christ’s hands.
My recourse, then, for explaining those whose lives simply deny they are Christians, is that they never really believed in the first place.
Paul calls it “confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the death.” It is talking about a sincere faith that both outwardly acknowledges Jesus as Lord and inwardly clings to Him in the deepest part of our being.
Is there another kind of “believe” that doesn’t meet that standard? I think there is. I tend to view it as “cognitive assent to a notion.”