marks said:
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You keep trying to make this about your precious Anti-OSAS. Stop trying to make everything about OSAS. This is your red herring, and you use it a lot instead of offering exposition on the verses we are discussing. I've yet to see you exegete the passages, but that doesn't surprise me.
Just read the passages, don't change them around. Forget about doctrines, first try to understand the verses for what they say of themselves. Not trying to make them fit something else.
Staying with this one for the moment . . .
You've become a partaker of Christ, but that's only true if you continue in your confidence to the end.
IF you don't, you didn't become a partaker. Not that you did and stopped. That's not what the verse says.
So, first we accept the reality of the wording of this passage . . . if we will . . . and from that, THEN we go on to form our doctrines.
FORGET about your anti-OSAS. Forget about Whether you can or can't, will or won't, did or didn't, forget about everything else and focus on what the passage actually states.