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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
How could you have an active faith if you didn't have a past regeneration? Receiving Christ for the first time is the first step. That is something you cannot lose regardless of what happens next. In that sense "once saved always saved". But if one small act of faith saves you, then so does every subsequent act of faith.
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This depends on what you mean by "receiving Christ".
Do you mean receiving the word in joy?
Or do you mean receiving him as in being baptized by the Holy Spirit?
The former you can lose (Matthew 13:18-22), the latter you cannot.