Reformed Bible Study Nanyuki Kenya
Hebrews 6:4–6 Explained: Can Believers Fall Away?
Nov 4, 2026 · 43 min · 10 segments
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Reformed Bible Study Nanyuki Kenya
Nov 4, 2026 · 43 min · 10 segments
What is the correct interpretation of these difficult verses? Now, Hebrews 6 says, 4 to 6 is our verse.
And the first view that people have through the ages is that this is addressing genuine believers.
That a genuine believer can walk away and fall away from Christ and abandon their faith and lose their salvation.
And the view is healed by those who who oppose the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, which is really means once you are saved, you're always saved.
You can't lose your salvation.
I'm not talking about the people that live in the country of Armenia.
These are people that have a doctrinal thought.
And they use this verse as their main argument that their position, to reinforce their position, they preach that a true believer can fall away.
They preach that a true believer can fall and apostatize.
While at the same time, although they preach this, that you can fall away and lose your salvation, they also preach that you can return to the Lord, that the door of repentance is always open.
So this creates a problem for them.
Because if you read the end of the verse, it says that it's impossible that once someone has fallen away to bring them back.
So it becomes a real problem because most people who teach you can lose your salvation, they also teach that if you lose it, you can get it back.
So it's a problem.
And it is something which we need to know the truth about.
And these verses have caused confusion.
They've caused sorrow and despair.
And we must be careful because not to just focus on only winning our particular argument, and rather we must focus faithfully on explaining what the inspired writer of Hebrews actually meant for Now, the widespread misunderstanding of the passage has caused so much pain, so much unnecessary spiritual sorrow, despair for many believers.
And there's a true account of a man named John Glover.
John Glover had a brother who, in the 16th century, was one of the first Protestant martyrs, a godly man.
Even the brother was a godly man.
They lived uprightly.
And what happened was that In spite of his faithful life, in spite of his good testimony, he suffered for many years under severe spiritual depression.
Religious terror.
What is the correct interpretation of these difficult verses? Now, Hebrews 6 says, 4 to 6 is our verse.
And the first view that people have through the ages is that this is addressing genuine believers.
That a genuine believer can walk away and fall away from Christ and abandon their faith and lose their salvation.
And the view is healed by those who who oppose the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints, which is really means once you are saved, you're always saved.
You can't lose your salvation.
I'm not talking about the people that live in the country of Armenia.
These are people that have a doctrinal thought.
And they use this verse as their main argument that their position, to reinforce their position, they preach that a true believer can fall away.
They preach that a true believer can fall and apostatize.
While at the same time, although they preach this, that you can fall away and lose your salvation, they also preach that you can return to the Lord, that the door of repentance is always open.
So this creates a problem for them.
Because if you read the end of the verse, it says that it's impossible that once someone has fallen away to bring them back.
So it becomes a real problem because most people who teach you can lose your salvation, they also teach that if you lose it, you can get it back.
So it's a problem.
And it is something which we need to know the truth about.
And these verses have caused confusion.
They've caused sorrow and despair.
And we must be careful because not to just focus on only winning our particular argument, and rather we must focus faithfully on explaining what the inspired writer of Hebrews actually meant for Now, the widespread misunderstanding of the passage has caused so much pain, so much unnecessary spiritual sorrow, despair for many believers.
And there's a true account of a man named John Glover.
John Glover had a brother who, in the 16th century, was one of the first Protestant martyrs, a godly man.
Even the brother was a godly man.
They lived uprightly.
And what happened was that In spite of his faithful life, in spite of his good testimony, he suffered for many years under severe spiritual depression.
Religious terror.
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