A believer can become an
unbeliever.
If an unbeliever can
become a believer then why can’t a believer become an unbeliever? He/she can
and the Bible shows this.
“Some shall depart from
the faith” (1 Tim.
4:1). A child of God can deny the faith and become “worse than an infidel” (1
Tim. 5:8). Can one who is worse than an infidel enter heaven? False
teachers can “overthrow (destroy) the faith of some” (2
Tim. 2:18); and “some…have made shipwreck” of their faith (1
Tim. 1:19)
“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any
of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God” (Heb.
3:12). This warning was given to brethren (“holy brethren, partakers of the
heavenly calling,” (Heb.
3:1), undeniably children of God), “lest there be in any of you….” Children
of God – believers – can become unbelievers and depart from God. Can one go to
heaven with “an evil heart of unbelief” (cf.
Heb. 11:6;
Rev. 21:8)?
