Clearly, there are those who seem to make a credible profession of faith and then later repudiate that profession of faith. I think that anyone who has been a Christian for more than a year knows people like that, people who, to all outward appearances, seem to have been dedicated to Christianity and then later left the faith or left the church. And so we have to ask the question: How is that possible, if we are to maintain the idea that one who was once in grace will remain in grace?
