Can a Christian Lose His Salvation?

Can you lose your salvation?
- the primary argument: if that was not true, you would lose motivation to live the Christian life
• you would become complacent.
o Matt 5:13—you are the salt of the earth, but you can lose your saltiness and will be trampled underfoot
o Mark 4—true Christians who lose their salvation when weeds, rocky soil, sun kills them
o John 15—people are abiding in Christ, then the don’t abide and they are cut off and thrown into the fire
o Romans 11—branches can be cut off the vine and the Jews can be regrafted in.
o Hebrews 6—if you fall away, it is impossible to bring you back to repentance after you have tasted the good things
- If these were the only passages we had on the subject, Bibza would say yes, you could lose your salvation
o Are we looking at a real Christian or someone who merely professes to believe
o Is Jesus describing someone who is true based on their profession or something which he knows to be a reality?
o Is it real or is it hypothetical
- Mark 4: they had no root! They weren’t real