once-saved-always-saved mentality, cessation of belief must mean cessation of life. We see that eternal life is contingent upon continual belief. When John 5:24 uses the Greek perfect tense to picture the transfer from death to life, this does not mean the text is talking about an irrevocable transfer that even unbelief could not alter. The believer, as a result of transfer, is in a state of life (the significance of the perfect tense of the Greek verb) only as long as he keeps on hearing and believing.