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Can you fall from grace?

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Yes, if you depend on the law. Some did in Gal 5:
4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.​
See also Once saved, always saved?.
God is trustworthy, therefore what He has instructed is also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), so the way to depend on God is by depending on what He has instructed while it is contradictory to think that we should depend on God, but should not depend on what He has instructed.

In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at had, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel message. Furthermore, Christ set a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, and we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:6). So Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Mosaic Law by word and by example, and the way to depend in him is by depending on what he taught. As such, Galatians should not be interpreted as speaking against depending on Christ.

All throughout the Bible, God wanted His people to repent and to return to obedience to the Mosaic Law, so it would be absurd to interpret Paul as warning us against doing that and saying that we will be severed from Christ is we depend on what he taught. Paul's problem in Galatians was not with those who were teaching Gentiles how to depend on what Christ taught, but with those who were wanting to require Gentiles to obey their works of the law in order to become justified.

Moreover, in Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Mosaic Law, and he chose the way of faithfulness by putting the Mosaic Law on his heart, so this has always been the one and only way of becoming justified by grace through faith, and it is what it means to be under grace, not the way to fall from it. It would be absurd to interpret these verses as him wanting God to be gracious to him by teaching him how to fall from grace. In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he might know Him and Israel too, knowing God is eternal life (John 17:3), and it would again be absurd to think that he wanted God to be gracious to them by teaching them how to fall from grace. In Genesis 6:8-9, Noah found grace in the eyes of God, he was a righteous man, and he walked with God, so God was gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way in obedience to His law and he was righteous because he obeyed through faith, so again this is the only way to become justified, and it would be absurd to think that Noah found grace in the eyes of God through being taught to fall from grace. In Romana 1:5, we have received grace in order to bring about the obedience of faith, not in order to bring about our fall from grace. In Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, not described as being trained by grace to fall from grace.
 
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God is trustworthy, therefore what He has instructed is also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), so the way to depend on God is by depending on what He has instructed while it is contradictory to think that we should depend on God, but should not depend on what He has instructed.

In Matthew 4:15-23, Christ began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent for the Kingdom of God is at had, which was a light to the Gentiles, and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is (Romans 3:20), so repenting from our disobedience to it is a central part of the Gospel message. Furthermore, Christ set a sinless example of how to walk in obedience to the Mosaic Law, and we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22) and that those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:6). So Christ spent his ministry teaching his followers to obey the Mosaic Law by word and by example, and the way to depend in him is by depending on what he taught. As such, Galatians should not be interpreted as speaking against depending on Christ.

All throughout the Bible, God wanted His people to repent and to return to obedience to the Mosaic Law, so it would be absurd to interpret Paul as warning us against doing that and saying that we will be severed from Christ is we depend on what he taught. Paul's problem in Galatians was not with those who were teaching Gentiles how to depend on what Christ taught, but with those who were wanting to require Gentiles to obey their works of the law in order to become justified.

Moreover, in Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey the Mosaic Law, and he chose the way of faithfulness by putting the Mosaic Law on his heart, so this has always been the one and only way of becoming justified by grace through faith, and it is what it means to be under grace, not the way to fall from it. It would be absurd to interpret these verses as him wanting God to be gracious to him by teaching him how to fall from grace. In Exodus 33:13, Moses wanted God to be gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way that he might know Him and Israel too, knowing God is eternal life (John 17:3), and it would again be absurd to think that he wanted God to be gracious to them by teaching them how to fall from grace. In Genesis 6:8-9, Noah found grace in the eyes of God, he was a righteous man, and he walked with God, so God was gracious to him by teaching him to walk in His way in obedience to His law and he was righteous because he obeyed through faith, so again this is the only way to become justified, and it would be absurd to think that Noah found grace in the eyes of God through being taught to fall from grace. In Romana 1:5, we have received grace in order to bring about the obedience of faith, not in order to bring about our fall from grace. In Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, not described as being trained by grace to fall from grace.
I am having trouble figuring out what your point is. So can a person fall from grace despite not being taught to?
 
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I am having trouble figuring out what your point is. So can a person fall from grace despite not being taught to?
Sorry for not being clear. While it is true that person can fall from grace, it is important to correctly identify what he was speaking about as the way to fall from grace in order to avoid making the mistake of thinking that obeying the Mosaic Law is the way to fall from grace, especially when there are many verses that make it abundantly clear that God teaching us to obey the Mosaic Law is the way to be under grace.

In Acts 5:32, the Spirit has been given to those who obey God, so obedience to what God has commanded is part of the way to receive the Spirit, however, in Galatians 3:1-2, it denies that works of the law are part of the way to receive the Spirit, therefore the phrase "works of the law" does not refer to obedience to what God has commanded. In addition, that means that what Paul spoke against being justified by obeying works of the law should not be mistaken as speaking against being justified by obeying what God has commanded, especially when Paul said in Romans 2:13 that only doers of the Mosaic Law will be justified.
 
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