[[ I simply don’t know how a person can TRULY trust in Jesus Christ and walk away.]]
Christians are just like everyone else, we have fears, disappointments, tragedies, etc etc etc. It s when we take our minds of Christ, and start to feel sorry for ourselves, that Satan comes along and feeds that self pity, and causes the person to become extremely self centered. They begin feeding their negative thoughts daily, and before you know it, they get so discouraged they walk away, or worse, commit suicide.
Yes even born again people can become so self absorbed that they come to a point where they take their own lives. Self centeredness along with mental health problems is a serious problem. Christians are not immune to mental health problems, and many allow those problems to consume them.
Satan laughs when Christians hurt. His goal is to cause as much misery in a person’s life that they quit or worse.
Of course, many who ‘walk away were, as you pointed out, never one of us to begin with. They are what is referred to as apostates. People who wanted all the ‘perks’ of being a part oft the family of God, but who never came to a true saving knowledge of Christ, then they finally get fed up, and turn from ‘the faith once and for all. To these folks, there is no salvation possible fro them on. They were never saved to begin. With, but with the vast knowledge they gained about God and salvation while playing thr part of a Christian, they now totally reject. God allowed them inside j formation so to spea. Allowed them to bet as close as a yone can to salvation, but they finally reject it
That is not to say that everyone who walks away is an apostate. Some just need a break for awhile. But those that openly dec.are ‘I am no longer a christian’ are very likely apostates who never tru,y saved
My belief is that Satan knowing that he is doomed, is trying use humans as a bargaining chip to get the LORD to change his mind, which we know will never happen.
I would say Satan made a mistake believing that once he killed the Son, that all mankind and the earth would be his and lost forever.
HUGE MISTAKE! Now we can become joint heirs with Christ.
Soon Satan will be thrown down to the earth and will try again to make the LORD a liar by killing all the Jews, thus stopping the LORD from fulfilling His promises to them.
But John tells us otherwise in the Revelation of Christ our Lord.