Can We Quit Believing?

Q. Some say  that every time the word believe is used in Scripture it means to continuously believe.   They take this to mean if you quit believing, you are not continuously believing, and that one day you will no longer be saved.  Can a true Christian really quit believing? I could see that in a human sense something MIGHT happen to make someone quit believing Christ and yet in my very heart I just don’t see how someone who really believes would ever quit.

A. The problem with that view is that it makes us responsible for staying saved.  But the Bible says the Lord accepts that responsibility (2 Cor. 1:21-22).  It says no one can take us out of his hands (John 10:28-29), or separate us from Him (Rom. 8:38-39), and that He’ll never lose even one of us (John 6:39) These promises are so all inclusive that it’s clear, once we’re saved there’s nothing we can do to break our union with Him.