I just wonder why, like.. God would save someone and not take them all the way..
why would he let some fall off...
Jesus desires ALL to come unto salvation. His love and mercy and grace for his creation is immense.
Much more than our tiny little minds can comprehend.
Salvation
is not based on predeterminism in the sense that some souls have been "marked" out for a secure relationship with Christ.
Rather salvation is predestined only in the sense that the plan of action was put into place before the world was created.
I know it spins you out. Jesus and the Father and the Holy Spirit knew that if the world was created then he would need to come
down and rescue us.... mind boggling, eh! But he still came into the world and died for
all of us.
Jesus does not let some fall off the edge so to speak. Rather people walk away from their salvation. People call it quits.
Some find 'being good' too hard. Others spit the dummy because they didn't get an immediate healing or problem solved,
or the car they always wanted. Remember the Parable Of The Sower And The Seed -
Luke 8: 11-15
Now the parable is this:
The seed is the word of God.
Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.
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. And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth,
and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit
You know the odds of bearing forth much fruit is not good - only 1 in 4 seeds land in good soil.
This parable is about us, not Jesus. It is us that are fickle and often fail to be overcomers.
I have seen over the years dozens and dozens of people baptized in water and the Holy Spirit (with the Bible evidence of speaking in
tongues). These people know with all certainty that God is true, having experienced the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
And yet over the years so many wander off, or give up, or stop praying, or go back into the world.
Why? Because Jesus lets them go? or rather they walk away from their own salvation for whatever excuses they have...
2Peter 2: 20-22
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.
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.
But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again;
and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.