Is the faith of every saved man always 100%?
Maybe even some go through a time of unbelief?
We were not told these 2 were kicked out of The Kingdom...
Does Paul not say to fan into flames the gift of our faith?
Which means that faith can and will require strengthening?
God keeps us, preserves us, presents us holy and blameless, completes the work that He began is us.
Please see Philipians 1:6, 1Thessalonians 5:23, and Jude 24. Is the grace of God not mighty and powerful?
He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it!---1Thessalonians 5:24
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The issue we are dealing with is shipwreck of one's faith (1 Tim 1:18-20).
What had Hymenaeus and Alexander done to ‘shipwreck’ their faith. Arndt & Gingrich’s Greek lexicon gives the meaning of this word from
apwthew as ‘reject, repudiate’ (Arndt & Gingrich 1957:102).
Therefore Lenski’s commentary, based on the Greek, concludes that
they got so far away from the apostolic prophecies that they did even what is here stated regarding their conscience and their faith. Paul himself had dealt with two of them, and when he held up to them the prophecies, i. e., the apostolic gospel teaching, and thereby tried to reach their conscience he found that they had actually thrust all good conscience away and had thereby lost their faith altogether. The true gospel teaching no longer made an impression on them, it had been smothered by their myths, etc. (Lenski 1937:532-533).
Faith that is shipwrecked is faith that has been repudiated, rejected. It couldn’t be clearer, based on the Greek etymology.
To shipwreck one’s faith is to abandon/repudiate the faith, reject the faith. This is similar to the message given in
Hebrews 6:4-6,
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt (ESV).
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Works consulted
Arndt, W F & Gingrich, F W 1957.
A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (limited edition licensed to Zondervan Publishing House).
Lenski, R C H 1937.
Commentary on the New Testament: The interpretation of St. Paul’s epistles to the Colossians, to the Thessalonians, to Timothy, to Titus, and to Philemon. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers Inc.