[aruanan]

The doctrine of perseverance stands opposed to the idea of apostasy, or the doctrine that it is possible for believers to fall from grace, either temporarily, so as to alternate from a state of grace to a state of lostness and back to a state of grace again, or finally, so as to have been once saved and yet finally be damned.

In other words, it stands opposed to actual Scripture, and to lessons that Christ, Himself, taught.

Such as, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned."

[ShadowAce]

Don’t forget the Prodigal son—”He was dead is is now alive!”