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Um, no, sovereignty doesn't mean "control". It means God has the ultimate authority, but that says nothing about how much he decides to interfere with men or fallen angels.

King James Version They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. Whenever John refers to false teachers (historically in this case it...

Excuse? The verse just doesn't say what you obviously want it to.

Exactly. That was my point. He was saved without ever knowing who Jesus was. He didn't have access to that information.

Um, creating everything makes God the author of everything we do? How? Not if we have any autonomy at all. God gave us dominion over some stuff. He not just moving all of us like pawns on a chess board.

Still trying to sneak "never" in where it never was, I see.

lol, Again, it doesn't say they were never of us. Of course, if someone falls away and denies Jesus is God, he's a little anti-Christ. That's got nothing to do with whether he was saved, to begin with. We are warned against false teachings for a reason. Because we can fall away!

Except that isn't the answer the Bible gives us. Acts 7:51 In fact, the majority of the OT is about people resisting God's will and being punished for it. And the Potter and clay analogy is a good place to settle this issue, because it's laid out very clearly in Isaiah. 13 The Lord says...

But Abraham was already justified by faith long before he died.

It's not clouding the issue. It's explaining that being saved BY Jesus doesn't always mean knowing about everything Jesus did.

How is that possible, if they were chosen by God?

Again, God using a disaster to bring good just means he's a God of redemption, it doesn't mean he caused the disaster. It sounds to me that someone has convinced you that the Calvinist version of sovereignty is the correct one. I don't believe it is. God is not the cause of all things. He makes...

Says the Bible nowhere. Job is basically a parable, I think. Satan asked for permission to attack Job, because God had put special protection around him! Why would we assume that's usually the case?

I have no idea. :) I was under the impression you believed the devil was basically a myth. No?

No they don't say " never". See the difference?

But evil forces delay his activities at times. See The book of Daniel. If there are no literal evil forces, then what are the Angels battling? He told me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel. God has heard everything that you said ever since the first day you decided to humble yourself in front of your...

Again, all those are just God allowing people to reap what they sow. And the point was that he didn't invent evil, Lucifer did. And bringing good from evil happenings isn't creating evil. Yes God killed many of his own people, but that wasn't his original desire. Jesus said he longed to take...

What language are you speaking? I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.

Not being of us at the time they left doesn't equal never having real faith. Otherwise, why are we warned about false teaching? Because it can lead us to become them. Lots of genuine Christians fall into sin and false teaching and some even deny Christ.

Another misunderstood verse. 1 John 2:18-19 Little children, it is the last hour and as you have heard that the Anti-Christ is coming, even now many anti-christs have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us...