about the nature of the spiritual crises that are recorded for us in Scripture and of the egregious occasions when professing believers fall and fall radically. These questions have to do with whether there are different degrees of falling and whether falling radically means that one has irretrievably lost one’s salvation. The Italian Reformed scholar Girolamo Zanchi once made the distinction between a serious fall and a total fall. He argued that the Bible is replete with examples of true believers