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You are assuming the very thing that needs to be proved. Matthew 24:12 says the love of many will wax cold, but it never says those people were born again and then lost salvation.In Matthew 24:12, Jesus speaking about the last days did say, "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." Sinners that never were born again were always cold so Jesus is not speaking about them.
1 Timothy 4:1
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”
Depart from the faith is speaking about people that got born again and were walking in faith until the departed from believing on the Lord Jesus because they started following seducing spirits embracing doctrines of devils.
Sinners that never were born again never were in the faith to begin with so the Lord is speaking about them in 1 Timothy 4:1.
It's the eternal security folks, the so called once saved always saved folks that will come at you for suggesting anything we do has any bearing on our salvation one way or the other. These are the clouds without water spoken about in 2 Peter 2
The same is true of 1 Timothy 4:1. “Depart from the faith” certainly describes apostasy from professed faith and truth, but the verse does not say they had been born again and then became spiritually unborn.
That is why Matthew 7:23 matters. Jesus does not tell those people, “I knew you once.” He says, “I never knew you.”
And Scripture itself distinguishes between being among believers and actually belonging to Christ: “They went out from us, but they were not of us” (1 John 2:19).
We need to let the passages say what they actually say instead of adding “born again and then lost salvation” when the text never says that.
