Can a saved person fall from grace?

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What’s Your Question? for Jan. 27, 2010

Part of the Calvinistic doctrine is that a person who has been saved cannot fall away and be lost. Some say if a person has eternal life, he cannot lose it, or it wasn’t eternal (Jn. 10:28). The person who has Christ has eternal life, but continuing to have Christ is conditional (1 Jn. 5:11,12; 2:24). Jesus said a branch that was in Him may be cut off and cast into the fire (Jn. 15). Two questions: (1) Was the branch ever really in the vine? (v. 2). (2) What does the fire represent? (v. 6). Hebrews 3:12 says “beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.” An unbeliever may choose to become a believer, and a believer does not lose his power of choice.