The author describes people who have tasted the heavenly gift, the powers of the age to come, and then fallen away. I'm a pastor who's watched people have real encounters with God and then walk away.
It's devastating. It's not like they never knew God - they knew. They tasted. And they chose something else anyway. I've had to sit with the reality that genuine knowledge doesn't guarantee faithfulness. Free will is real.
That's made me take my own choice to believe more seriously. It's not automatic. It's something I have to keep choosing, keep saying yes to, over and over again. And when people fall away, I grieve them not as people who were never real, but as people who were real and chose differently.
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