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Apostasy can be defined as the renunciation or the abandonment of the Christian faith and it's actually a word that we get from the Greek text that underlies the King James Bible in 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 3 translated as the falling away referring to an appointed time where the Antichrist will unite all people under a one-world religion to worship himself and essentially abandon the worshipping of God. Now the way this would look like in practical terms today would be that if a person or a church claims to believe in the essentials of the doctrines of Christ such as salvation by grace through faith alone the deity of Jesus or even the infallibility of the Bible but then later renunciates those beliefs the diagnosis would be that that person has gone apostate they didn't lose their salvation they were never safe to begin with. An example of this would be Judas Iscariot who John writes about indirectly in 1 John 2 19 when he said they went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would have no doubt continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of