False, as I already previously explained. You seem to underestimate the
preservation of God.
His saints are preserved forever. (Psalm 37:28; Jude 1:1)
Romans 6:14 - For
sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! 16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin unto death (unbelievers), or obedience unto righteousness? (believers) 17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. 18
And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. Praise God!
In regards to James 5:19-20, *notice - Brethren, if anyone
"among" you wanders from the truth..turns a "sinner" from the error of his way.. Some would argue that James says this one who turned from the truth was a "sinner," and was "among" but "not of" the Brethren, then he wasn’t previously saved. That fits 1 John 2:19 -
They went out "from" us, but they were "not of" us..
IF this person was a genuine believer, yet how do we know for sure this is the second death in the lake of fire? In Matthew 26:38, Jesus said: "My
soul [psuche] is deeply grieved,
to the point of death." Jesus was not saying that His soul was deeply grieved to the point of spiritual death, Rather, Jesus was talking about
physical death, his human life. In Revelation 16:3, "The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood like that of a dead man; and every living
soul [psuche] in the sea
died." In 1 Peter 3:20, ..God kept waiting in the days of Noah, during the construction of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons,
[psuche-souls] were brought safely (saved from drowning,
physical death) through the water by the ark (Hebrews 11:7).
"Soul" is rendered from the Greek word "psuche" and is also translated as "life". The word "psuche" is never translated as "spirit." In 1 Corinthians 5:5, we read - I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the
destruction of his flesh, so that his
spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus (no spiritual death).
Jesus covered our sins in one way (Romans 4:7) by bringing forgiveness for all believers, yet sins can also be covered in a different way. In Proverbs 10:12, we read: Hatred stirs up strife, But
love covers all sins. In 1 Peter 4:8, we read: And above all things have fervent love for one another, for
"love will cover a multitude of sins." Where there is strife, there is hatred and unless love prevails, the strife will get worse. Love covers offenses and sins when a believer turns back from error.
So is this wanderer a professing Christian, whose faith is not genuine, or a sinning Christian, who needs to be restored? For the former, the death spoken of in verse 20 is the "second death" (Revelation 21:8); for the latter, it is physical death (1 Corinthians 11:29-32; 1 John 5:16).
Romans 8:28-30 is crystal clear, but those who believe otherwise have their agenda.
Romans 8:30 clearly states
..and whom He justified, these He also glorified. No chain of salvation being broken here. In Galatians 1:7, we read - which is not another;
but there are some (Judaizers) who want to trouble you and pervert the gospel of Christ. Just as in Galatians 5:4 - You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. The present tense of the word "justified" implies that these Galatians were contemplating justification by the law. They were getting
side tracked by legalistic teachers. "You who are trying to be justified by the law have fallen away from grace,"
but had they fully come to that place yet? Galatians 3:3 reads: Are you so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are you now being made perfect by the flesh? The middle voice implies "making yourselves perfect" by means of self effort.
The present tense indicates that the action is in progress and that there is still time to correct the error.
If these Galatians lost their salvation and it was a done deal, then why didn't Paul simply say you "lost your salvation" and I'm done with you? *Instead, in verse 10, he said -
I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is. Why would Paul have confidence in these Galatians if they lost their salvation and it's all over for them? In verse 12, Paul uses hyperbole, As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!
You like to pit scripture against scripture instead of properly harmonizing scripture with scripture. Did Paul say that these Galatians (who were getting side tracked by legalistic teachers) did not persevere and "lost their salvation?" NO. *I'm yet to find the specific words "lost salvation" anywhere in the Bible. You can believe what you want, but I got off that roller coaster ride of fear and bondage to IN-security several years ago upon my conversion after leaving the RCC and will NEVER get back on it.
Proverbs 24:16 - For a
righteous man may fall seven times And rise again, But the wicked shall fall by calamity.
In 1 Corinthians 15:1-2, we read - Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, by which also you are saved,
if you hold fast that word which I preached to you--unless you believed in vain. To
believe in vain is to
believe without cause or without effect, to no purpose.
*The people who ultimately fail to hold fast to the word (the gospel) that Paul preached in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, demonstrate that they "believed in vain" (did not truly believe) -- saving faith in Christ was
never firmly rooted and established from the start.