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straw said:
Would this mean that a deconverted person has indeed fallen from grace ?
No, one cannot "fall from grace"! Grace isn't something one "owns/possesses" nor has any control over. If that were the case, then grace wouldn't be grace, i.e., the unmerited favor of God; an action done by God which always produces the results intended. In this context, salvation, which cannot be lost. (Jh 6:37, 39, 40; 10:27-30; Rom 5:1; 8:1, 11, 29-30; Col 3:3, 4; 1Pet 1:5; Jude 1:1)


1 John 2:19 (ASV) "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us."


In His grace,

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