PICJA
It's not taken as in God takes it, they have forfeited it of their own free will.
Precisely.
The Gift of Salvation...is an "OFFERING"
TO...."ALL".
The "OFFERING"."IS"every man's TO Take.
An "OFFERING", requires the individual
TO..."ACCEPT", by "TAKING" the OFFERING.
TO Accept and Take the Offering...
A man MUST...confess "HEARTFUL" belief in the Lord God
There is "a period of time"...for a man OF the World TO HEAR about God...and Confess Heartful Belief IN God.
During that LEARNING TIME "About God"...
That man is being "enlightened"...(HEARING and learning something New...the Lord God, that the man did not before Hear about).
As the man IS hearing...the Word of God...
God IS gifting that man;
Measures of FAITH...
That measure is called "A TASTE" of The effects of Gods Word being Heard by that man.
That man has not received Salvation of his SOUL, he has received a measure of Faith.
If the man Continues Hearing, he continues receiving Faith.
The Continued receiving IS Preparing the man with more and more Faith... until the man's Natural spirit in his natural heart....
IS prepared to CONFESS Heartful Belief, in the Lord God.
AND? If the man STOPS hearing...then What?
He stops Receiving Faith...
And that is called...having Fallen From Faith.
Point being...A man who has Fallen From Faith....was Never Soul Saved.
A man who has Never been Soul Saved...
FORFITS His Gift of Salvation...
BECAUSE the man never Accepted and Took possession of His Offered Gift of Salvation.
In essence...he lost his Salvation, that was Expressly FOR him, because he didn't take the Give that Was Expressly for him.
Some teach...a man RECEIVES his Salvation AND then loses it...Scripture does not teach that.
Once a man has RECEIVED his Salvation...
Nothing "undoes" His having "RECEIVED" his Salvation.