Originally Posted by jerry

The Bible does not teach you can lose your salvation - Jesus ONLY gives eternal life. What it does teach is that there is chastisement for the believer who walks in unrepentant sin. God will speak, spank, scourge, then separate by death the unrepentant believer (if they refuse to heed His previous chastising). The chastening by death is what is referred to by the phrase "he taketh away."