I quoted scripture verbatim as it appeared in the translation I was reading (NASB at that moment, I believe).
I never rejected any biblical warnings about the dangers of “backsliding” (not a very scriptural word for someone claiming to care so much about what scripture actually says.)
QED: More false statements against the Saints.
You never answered the question: “Why do you make false accusations against the Saints?”
The correct biblical term for a backslider, is reprobate.
As in Paul telling believers of their need to examine themselves to see whether they are still in the faith, or had become reprobates - and also stating that he has to subjugate his flesh daily, lest after preaching to others, he himself end up a reprobate.
2Co 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that
Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
He warns that some of the church that think they’re in the faith can actually have become reprobates.
The word reprobates is ADOKIMOS in the Greek - castaway and rejected by God - which becomes important in the verse where Paul himself says he has to subjugate his flesh daily, lest after preaching salvation to others, he end up a castaway.
1Co 9:27
But I keep under my body, and bring itinto subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a CASTAWAY.
The word castaway is also ADOKIMOS in the Greek - reprobate - castaway and rejected by God.
G96 (Strong)
ἀδόκιμος
adokimos
ad-ok'-ee-mos
From G1 (as a negative particle) and G1384; unapproved, that is, rejected; by implication worthless(literally or morally): -
castaway, rejected, reprobate.
Total KJV occurrences: 8
Paul said he could end up a reprobate, and be castaway and rejected by God, if he didn’t subjugate his flesh with its sinful desires, daily.
John Wesley aptly exegetes 1 Corinthians 9:27:
This single text may give us a just notion of the scriptural doctrine of election and reprobation; and clearly shows us, that particular persons are not in holy writ represented as elected absolutely and unconditionally to eternal life, or predestinated absolutely and unconditionally to eternal death; but that believers in general are elected to enjoy the Christian privileges on earth; which if they abuse, those very elect persons will become reprobate. St. Paul was certainly an elect person, if ever there was one; and yet he declares it was possible he himself might become a reprobate. Nay, he actually would have become such, if he had not thus kept his body under, even though he had been so long an elect person, a Christian, and an apostle.
This falls in line perfectly with what the apostle Peter wrote:
Peter says we must MAKE our calling and ELECTION sure, by ADDING to our faith the FRUIT of virtue, Godliness, and love (charity), and he says that IF WE DO that, we won’t FALL, and we will have an entrance into heaven.
That our election isn’t SURE until we MAKE it sure, by adding fruit to our faith, and will fall if we don’t make it sure, is fatal to reformed election doctrine aka Calvinism.
2Pe 1:5 And beside this, giving all diligence,
add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
2Pe 1:6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience
godliness;
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
2Pe 1:8 For
if these things be in you, and abound,
they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitfulin the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2Pe 1:9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
2Pe 1:10 Wherefore the rather,
brethren, give diligence
to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
2Pe 1:11 For so
an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Paul never taught unconditional eternal security - in fact he taught the opposite.
He taught daily perseverance in the faith, of continuing to walk in the light, continuing to walk in the spirit, to continue to remain in Christ.
Maranatha