For instance, Matthew 10:22. “And ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake, but he that endureth to the end shall be saved”.

I don’t see anything in that that implies you can forfeit salvation. I see this as a statement of fact in much the same sense that St.Paul says drunkards will not inherit the kingdom of heaven.

I see it as a matter of cause and effect. I believe that if one is born of God (adopted) into His family he will endure to the end. I believe this is what the bible teaches consistently.

I appreciate the analogy of a forfeited or squandered gift. But I do not believe the comparison
of human father to human child is one that can be applied to Holy Father and human child.

The bible makes the analogy of “Potter (God) and clay (us)” in Isaiah and Romans. Does that clay talk back to the Potter?
My point is, there are some things we cannot understand as humans. That’s because our brains on not on the level with God.

I believe just as the book of Apacalypse says Jesus was “slain before the foundation of the world” in God’s time it had
already been done (even before the cross), but still had to be experientially lived.

I believe the bible teaches the same about salvation and God’s election of His elect.

I believe because people confuse cause and effect (without holy spirits guidance) they “see” that there are bible versus that say it is possible to forfiet salvation.

IMPOSSIBLE TO LOSE SALVATION:

Psal 37:28
For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

MATTEW 24 NIV
24 … False Christs …to deceive even the elect – if that were possible.

JOHN 5
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

JOHN 6
39 And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

JOHN 10
28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

JOHN 11
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

JOHN 13
1 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

JOHN 14
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

JOHN 17
1 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

ROMANS 8
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I CORINTHIANS 1
8 Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I CORINTHIANS 3
15 If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

EPHESIANS 4
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

PHILIPPIANS 1
6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

II TIMOTHY 1
12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

II TIMOTHY 2
13 If we believe not, yet he abideth faitfull: he cannot deny himself.

HEBREWS 7
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

I PETER 1
5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

I JOHN 2
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

I JOHN 2
27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you …

POSSIBLE TO FORFEIT SALVATION:

EZEKIEL 33
12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.
13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

MATTHEW 10
22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

MATTHEW 24
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

MARK 13
13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

LUKE 8
13 They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

JOHN 8
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;

JOHN 15
1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
(POSSIBLE TO LOOSE SALVATION:
Cont.)

ROMANS 11
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

I CORINTHIANS 5
5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

I CORINTHIANS 15
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

2 CORINTHIANS 6
1 We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

PHILIPPIANS 3
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

COLOSSIANS 1
23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

I TIMOTHY 4
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
16 Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

I TIMOTHY 5
15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.

II TIMOTHY 2
12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

HEBREWS 3
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

HEBREWS 6
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

HEBREWS 10
26 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

JAMES 5
19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

II PETER 2
20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

I JOHN 2
24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

I JOHN 5
16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he hall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

REVELATION 2
7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

REVELATION 3
5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

Additional verses:
EZEKIEL 3
20 Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous [man], that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

EZEKIEL 18
24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

REVELATION 2
11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

REVELATION 2
17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it].

Kurt Niederer