QUOTE : Which takes us back to your question. These people have been enlightened, they’ve tasted the heavenly gift, shared in the Holy Spirit, tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age, only to fall away. “This doesn’t mean they were saved, Charmaine. All it means is that they were exposed to God’s goodness, yet they remained unconverted. “Scripture is clear that it would be better for them to have never been exposed to His goodness than to taste it only to depart from it. It would be better for them had they never been exposed to it at all. “Nothing’s changed since the days these scriptures were recorded. Judas Iscariot wasn’t the only one who walked away from Christ two thousand years ago. John six, verse sixty-six states that many of Jesus’ followers, after personally witnessing the many great miracles He performed, not to mention the perfect life He lived, ultimately turned away and no longer followed Him. “There’s that word ‘many’ again. Think about it, if so many left Jesus after experiencing miracle after miracle while in His presence, why should we question that ‘many’ since that time, including in our present age, have done the same?