Falling Away From Grace Or Simply Never Saved?

I recommend you follow along with your bible as I have only quoted highlights of chapters 3 and 4. Many of the Galatians were going back to obeying the law (rituals) and Paul is very upset and addressing this.

Galatians 3: 
Paul addresses the churches of Galatia as "the sons of God, through faith in Christ Jesus". 

26For all of you are God’s children through faith in the Messiah Jesus. 27Indeed, all of you who were baptized into the Messiah have clothed yourselves with the Messiah. 28Because all of you are one in the Messiah Jesus, a person is no longer a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a male or a female. 29And if you belong to the Messiah, then you are Abraham’s descendants indeed, and heirs according to the promise. ISV

Galatians 4
Paul is upset that they are turning back to worthless rituals and risking enslavement again.

8However, in the past, when you did not know God, you were slaves to things that are not really gods at all.e 9But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how can you turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt basic principles? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again? 10You are observing days, months, seasons, and years. 11I am afraid for you! I don’t want my work for you to have been wasted! ISV

Galatians 5:
Paul warns some they have fallen away from grace. Chapter 5 is one of Paul's most powerful warnings. It is critical to understand what he is saying. People can argue all day as to whether it is possible to fall away or lose your salvation, or if those who fall away were simply never saved. I see both in the scriptures and wait for the Lord Jesus Christ to explain them clearly one day. In the meantime I want to obey him and have no part with those "who have fallen away from grace". I do however want to rescue them and warn others of the danger of continuing in sin. 

1The Messiah has set us free so that we may enjoy the benefits of freedom. So keep on standing firm in it, and stop putting yourselves under the yoke of slavery again. 2Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, the Messiah will be of no benefit to you. 3Again, I insist that everyone who allows himself to be circumcised is obligated to obey the entire Law.4Those of you who are trying to be justified by the Law have been cut off from the Messiah. You have fallen away from grace.

5Through the Spirit by faith we confidently await the fulfillment of our righteous hope, 6for in union with the Messiah Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision matters. What matters is faith expressed through love.

7You were running the race beautifully. Who cut in on you and stopped you from obeying the truth? 8Such influence does not come from the one who calls you. 9A little yeast spreads through the whole batch of dough. 10I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view of this. However, the one who is troubling you will suffer God’s judgment, whoever he is. 11As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching the necessity of circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed. 12I wish that those who are upsetting you would castrate themselves!

13For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another. 14For the whole Law is summarized in a single statement: “You must love your neighbor as yourself.” 

15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you are not destroyed by each other. 16So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never fulfill the desires of the flesh. 17For what the flesh wants is opposed to the Spirit, and what the Spirit wants is opposed to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, and so you do not do what you want to do. 18But if you are being led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

19Now the actions of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity, 20idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, rivalry, jealously, outbursts of anger, quarrels, conflicts, factions, 21envy, murder,drunkenness, wild partying, and things like that. I am telling you now, as I have told you in the past, that people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 

22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. 24Now those who belong to the Messiah Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also be guided. 26Let’s stop being arrogant, provoking one another and envying one another. ISV

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