G646 - apostasia

• rebellion - G646 - apostasiaG646-apostasia
  • Strong’s Concordance
    • defection, revolt, apostasy
  • HELPS Word-studies
    • 646 apostasía (from 868 /aphístēmi, “leave, depart,” which is derived from 575 /apó, “away from” and 2476 /histémi, “stand”) – properly, departure (implying desertion); apostasy – literally, “a leaving, from a previous standing.”
  • NAS Exhaustive Concordance
    • NASB Translation
      • apostasy (1), forsake (1).
  • Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance
    • falling away, apostasy
    • Feminine of the same as apostasion; defection from truth (properly, the state) (“apostasy”) — falling away, forsake.

OSAS

If one is leaving / departing / forsaking from a previous standing, then were these not professing Christians at one time? Would this not refute the once saved always saved doctrine?Once-Saved-Always-Saved

2 Occurrences in the New Testament

Acts-21v21

Acts 21:21

But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.

2-Thessalonians-2v3

2 Thessalonians 2:3

Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness— the son of destruction— is revealed.