Real question - can one stop believing?

• Ezek. 18: righteous become unrighteous? -- YES

• Luke 8:13 - believe FOR A WHILE, THEN FALL AWAY

BOOK OF HEBREWS - "holy brethren" - 3:1

• Only IF hold fast until end - 3:6

• Could harden heart - 3:8, 4:7

• Heed, lest in THEM an evil heart of unbelief, depart from God. - 3:12

• Come short of the promised rest - 4:1

• Fall after example of unbelief - 4:11

• Could commit wilful sin - 10:25

• Could trod under foot the son of God - 10:29

• Could do despite unto the Spirit - 10:29

• Receive promise IF have patience - 10:36

• Could draw back unto perdition - 10:38

• Had besetting sin (unbelief) they were to aside - 12:1

• Could fail of the grace of God - 12:5

• Root of bitterness in them? - 12:15

• Could be defiled - 12:15

• Could refuse Him that spake from heaven - 12:25

• Could be carried about with divers and strange doctrines - 13:9

Romans 11:

Gentiles grafted in by faith - but THEN could be 'broken off' because of unbelief.

Luke 8 - parable of the sower

they believed FOR AWHILE - and THEN FELL AWAY.