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Apostates are not believers. They only think they were. Anyone who has had a real encounter with Jesus and knows Him will not have to worry about being rejected by God. His grace is sufficient.
Jude 1:24-25 (NLT)
Now all glory to God, who is able to keep you from falling away and will bring you with great joy into his glorious presence without a single fault.
You must speak a different form of the English language than I do, for the very word 'apostate' means to leave what one once held to. In other words, as applied to Christians that fall away one can't be an 'apostate' unless... they had once believed.
It's specifically the following subject Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy about...
1 Tim 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
(KJV)
How does Apostle Paul reveal there that the 'Once saved, always saved' doctrine of men is false?
Those who came up with the excuse that, "Well, those apostates were never really Christians to begin with", had... to fabricate that idea to TRY... and cover their fake OSAS doctrine of men! No, Apostle Paul says there those "depart from the faith".
More examples...
Heb 3:12
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
(KJV)
II Th 2:3
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
(KJV)
2 Tim 4:2-4
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
(KJV)
Strange how the OSAS doctrinists just omit those Scriptures by Apostle Paul like they never existed.