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Yes, and no, but how is it different from a child who disobey's his parents?

Did your parents disown you whenever you disobeyed them?

Were you not part of the family any more? Did they kick you out of the house?

Did you have to work or earn your way back into the good graces of your own parents?

There's a big difference between sinning and willfully choosing to reject God.

And Scripture doesn't tell us that we lose our salvation every time we commit a sin nor does it teach that every little sin we commit is a is rejection of God at the cost of our salvation.

On the contrary, if you believe that then you have to figure out what to do with the passage in Hebrews that says this.

Hebrews 6:4-6 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

If you think that salvation can be lost by sinning, then it is IMPOSSIBLE to bring that person back to repentance.

There is no on again/off again salvation depending on what kind of day you're having.

Salvation, then, is a one shot deal and if you sin once, by your reasoning and definition, you are lost, and that is that. You CANNOT come back again.

But if you believe that a Christian and gain and lose his salvation on a minute by minute basis, then how to you explain, or rather explain away, the verses I posted in post 12 about the security of the believer in Christ?

So, yes in a sense it is turning away from God but not rejecting Him to the point of forfeiting one's salvation, if that were even possible.