Ferris Bueller
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The Bible clearly says that believing is not a reward of debt so as to give a person occasion to boast as you are asserting:The disagreement will be there because those who think we can lose our salvation are deluded by the sins of egocentrism and pride.
"27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith." Romans 3:27
Paul says Abraham believed God and was justified, not worked and was justified, and, therefore, Abraham had nothing to boast about.
" 2If Abraham was indeed justified by works, he had something to boast about, but not before God. 3For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”" Romans 4:2-3
His believing is contrasted with working, not equated with it such that he could boast in that believing as Calvinism asserts. And so there is no boast in the Biblical exhortation to continue to believe. Believing is not works that put God in debt to a person for work completed. So, believing in Christ is not egocentrism and pride. Paul says so. Calvinism says it is, but as you can see Paul says it is not.