Question:
If you believe abortion is right or okay, or being gay is okay, and/or you believe something that God specifically says is wrong, are you still considered a Christian—even though you are not following what God says?
Answer:
Only the Lord really knows those who are saved (2 Timothy 2:19). We are told in Matthew 7:20 that “…by their fruits ye shall know them.” So if someone says they are saved and knowingly believes and acts on things that are contrary to what God says in the Bible, we can’t be sure that person is truly saved. But we are not in the position to determine if a person is saved or not since we are not God. After we are saved, we still sin since we still have the flesh in us, but as was mentioned earlier we are given eternal life when we get saved. So, even though we are capable of believing and doing wrong things as Christians, if we are truly saved then we cannot lose that salvation (John 10:27-30, Ecclesiastes 3:14, John 3:16).