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I am.  It can happen to anyone.

Nope.  Not a chance.

You wear clothes and people see you and associate you with this avatar that the clothes provide.

However, you are not your clothes, you merely wear them front and centre. 

Similarly, recent work has revealed that the majority of the communication going on in your brain occurs subconsciously. There is so much information taken in, that long after you have read it and gone to sleep,  still the communication continues. 

The part of the mind doing conscious thinking is only the clothing: it plays a role, but it is not as major as the ego would like to think. 

Jesus new this. He asked the disciples to tell him who and what he was. Many gave labels: philosopher, teacher, healer. One of them said: no one can say what you are. He took this one aside and spoke further with him. 

Similarly, just as you are more than your clothes, you are also much more than your psyche with its limited perceptions and thus beliefs. What you read, what you are told, what you learn etc, all of this is a small part of the whole. 

Just as shadows do not tell you all about the object casting them, so your psyche cannot know more than its perception allows it to consider. Thus, to know more, one must find ways to alter perception, both in breadth and creativity (different ways of viewing the same things). 

What we are is more than what we think, and our clothing doesn't make us different from one another; similarly, what your psyche believes, that doesn't make you different deeply, only at the surface level where consciousness operates above ground. 

A true "born again" Christian has nothing to worry about falling away.  Yes, sometimes a real Christian can become a "back-slider" or a "prodigal son" but God will eventually reel them back into the flock.

People get confused by that because they think this means that you can lose your salvation. The answer is no. Apostates are not people who were Christians and then stop being Christians. Apostates were never Christians to begin with and only later did it become apparent that they weren’t Christians. Here’s the upshot of the whole thing for us: God uses the stories of apostates to warn his people. Time and time again he says, “Don’t end up like that person. Don’t prove later to find yourself to be a non-Christian. Stay the course; persevere.”

That doesn’t mean people can actually lose their salvation, but God uses those warnings and uses the examples of apostates to encourage his people to stay true to the faith. This is something that we’re always going to face in the church, but thankfully we can trust that we’re in God’s hands, and when we’re in God’s hands, no one can be plucked out of the hands of the Father.

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Publius......As a Latter Day Saint you have every reason to worry.  LDS is based on a "works theology" and not "grace".  You'll never know if you have performed well enough inorder to gain God's favor and forgiveness.  Guess What.  It is impossible for anyone to ever earn their way to heaven.  Salvation is a free gift of God and is never earned.  We have to repent of our sins and ask Jesus, God the Son, to be our Lord and Savior and to forgive our sins.

Today's Christians have never been Christians to "fall away" and are "apostate" since Jesus gives Christians (((POWER))) to become the sons of GOD" (John 1:14) when "He baptizes us with the Holy Ghost" (John 1:33; Acts 1:5) Who gives us (((POWER))) (Acts 1:8) but they have NONE!

Neither do they have (((PROOF))) (I Thessalonians 5:21; KJV) of "SPIRITUAL GIFTS" (I Corinthians 12:7-10) or "SIGNS FOLLOWING" (Mark 16:17-18) to ((("CONFIRM))) that the LORD is working with them" (Mark 16:20).

You can't miss what you never had (Revelation 21:8)!

No. There is no denying the living God and what He has done with my heart and my life.

Anyone who genuinely 'fears' this is in no real danger of it. 'Apostates' are people who enter the Church for opportunism, try to get inside as deeply as possible, then use it as a cloak long enough to gain access to sufficient resources and genius to attempt to 'go it alone.' Afterwards they betray the Church and try to use its own knowledge, wisdom or resources against it. 

This is also known as the 'antichrist' pattern, (1 John 2:18-23, 4:3, 2 John 1:7), which originates with Judas Iscariot and his personal betrayal of Christ for gain and in pursuit of power or fame.

Apostate apostles oppose state.