One Christian may be the hand another, the head another, the neck another, the eye, etc. As the Bible compares the body of Christ to the human body system and stresses the importance of all the parts of the body, so is the situation with the body of Christ. Every Christian is an important member of the body of Christ. The son of perdition 2 Thessalonians 2:3 ConclusionĬhristians are a family. Hebrews 6:4-6ģLet no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall notĬome, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy Īnd these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptationĤ For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. Instances where fall away or falling away is used to denote apostasy is as follows: Bible verses about falling away from God.
That is why the phrase fall away becomes appropriate to describe a situation where a Christian, who is a member of the body, quits Christianity. When a Christian leaves the body of Christ, it is like a flower falling from the tree to its death. The body of Christ is a big body, comprising of Jesus Himself and all His followers. “Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular ( 1 Corinthians 12:27).”Įvery believer is part of the body of Christ. Now Paul wrote to the church in Corinth saying, When Christians fellowship together, they form a church. Of all the religions in the world, Christianity is the only religion in which their God identifies His followers as part of Him – all Christians are members of Jesus’ body. The phrase is ideal to describe apostasy in Christianity due to the relationship between Jesus and his followers. To fall away from something, you have to, first, be part of it. Fall away creates an imagery which suggests that a part, usually small, breaks off from the whole and falls on the ground just like how a flower, which was initially part of a plant, breaks off and falls on the ground. The phrase fall away is used to express apostasy only in the New Testament. The grass withereth,Īnd the flower thereof falleth away: 1 Peter 1:24 The Bible gives us an imagery of fall away or falling away or falleth away as used in the Bible:Īs grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. If something falls away, literally, it breaks off from the thing it was attached to and falls on the ground. Among other words and phrases, fall away is also used to denote apostasy in the Bible.