backsliding

Proverbs 14:2,5,6 ESV “Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.” Another way...

“For as by one man’s disobedience many were made (constituted) sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made (constituted) righteous.” Romans 5:19 (KJV 1900) What most do not understand is that Christ saves believers through His shed blood and his imputed righteousness. Our works are...

Hi there, So I struggled for a long time, about being a backslider, about not being diligent in the faith - which I had come to know. For a long, long time I thought that fixing the backsliding was something I had to do. I tried confessing, I tried baptism, I tried changing my faith - none of...

Psalms 42:1-3 ESV “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?” I...

Isn't it amazing how God speaks to us in our devotional time, often in the scripture we read. Today I read this; "For the Lord our God is gracious and compassionate, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him." 2 Chronicles 30:9b Wow! What a verse, which was...

I live in the United States of America. I was born here in 1949. America is what I know. This is where God placed me. And, so a lot of what he gives me to share is related to my nation. But, some of this may apply to other nations, too, so if you don’t live here, just let the Lord speak to your...

Hi, I posted some background in my intro thread but as name suggests I am coming out of a period of backsliding. I grew up in the mainline church and when I was 19 I was convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit and was born again. I was a new creation in Jesus Christ and was on fire for about a...

At the age of 16 I heard the gospel, believed it, and accepted Christ. I then was baptized in a Independent Fundamental Baptist Church. Although I had faith in Christ as Lord and savior, I did not make any serious commitment to turn from sin or stop living like the world. A few years later, I...

A couple weeks ago I backslid a lot. After I backslid I kind of stopped reading the Bible and stopped praying and spending time with God. I started to notice that my heart wasn’t right with God and that made me very upset. I was very sad that in my heart I wanted to do bad things. Not only did I...

Hi. I've been failing in regards to bearing fruit as of late, because of a lack of trust in Jesus' promises of being brought to completion. I've been giving in to gluttony anger and the like, and part of it has to do with apathy, I feel. Any tips on how to get out of this rut? Prayer would also...

Please pray for God to have mercy and give me another chance. I strayed from Christianity into athiesm and Taoism and I now reject those things but I fear it's too late. Like God doesn't love me anymore. Many people on CF will even tell you someone who strays is not really a believer or twice...

I mean people who strayed from the faith and came back. People who got saved or were seriously Christian not just in name only but in belief and practice but doubted and had agnostic-athiesm-other theology phases but came back. How did you come back? How do you deal with feeling fake or...

I want to read more and become one of those great apologeticists that has an answer for like everything but I'm also terrified of not being saved and being rejected or blinded by God so that I cannot be saved because He simply doesn't want me anymore (blasphemy, apostasy, mark of the beast....)...

Over the past several months: I used to never miss church, and I loved going and worshiping, and learning from the preaching. Then it started to become easier to miss and didn't seem as important. And when I did go, my heart wasn't in it. I would lift my hands and pray but it's like I didn't...

Hello, I must confess something to you all. I am a 3 time backslider. I know, but don't believe I have committed the unforgivable sin. And have gone back into my old ways. Please pray for me, help me.

ive heard it said that a true Christian will never fully doubt, a sin never backsliding to the point of being an atheist or other religion follower. Does this mean I was never saved before I backslide? And can I be saved now? Is eternal life conditional on 100% of the time faith?

I'm really worried and confused. I feel sometimes like I went too far. Hebrews 6:4-6 seems to say I can't come back from backsliding (I even had a Taoist phase, I regret it so much. A lot of verses seem to say like IF you perservere and believe 100% to the end you'll be saved otherwise not)...