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Thank you. This is what I believe.

In the title I provided citations?

Faith in God is not something that can occur naturally. When we believe in Him, it is actually taking hold of Him Himself. That can only occur if He permits it, if He gives Himself to you. If He were to remove that permission, if He were to no longer extend Himself to you, then you wouldn't...

If your Name is blotted out of the Book of Life, and your name is not going to be read out of It, it is not different from it never having been in it.

God does not remember your sins--He separates them from you as far as the east is from the west, puts them at the bottom of the sea. This same dynamic applies to righteousness which He "forgets". When He "forgets" you had the righteousness of faith, then it never existed. You are and always were...

Thank you for your correspondence. I've heard that Strong's is not taken seriously by actual scholars. Amazing. I love this reality--the Scriptures should give us comfort and hope. Romans 8 says we have the spirit of adoption, but we hope for the redemption of the body. But it does say we...

Yeah, your reading may "harmonize" with lots of other verses you read in particular ways, but it doesn't harmonize with its immediate context--not only that, but, again, while your solutions ("look, it's saying something similar to this other verse over here") have practical utility, grace...

As I've said previously, I don't disagree with your breakdown of the grammar, I only disagree with what you conclude, because you don't take the context into consideration, and you disbelieve the doctrine that God forgets righteousness.

Whether you interact further or not I am satisfied your position has been proven untenable.

1. Again, your conclusion is contraindicated in the context. 2. If God forgets your righteousness of faith, it retroactively never occurs.

I have never met anyone who takes things out of context more deeply than you do. You literally try to argue Heb 3 "For we have become partakers of Christ if we endure to the end" means "You can't fall away from the faith" when the entire surrounding CONTEXT ("make sure you don't fall...

The Holy Spirit is called Παράκλητος, and we are meant to obtain παρακλήσεως from the Scriptures so that we have hope. Would this mean that we should get from the Scriptures the same as we get from the Spirit? Like the two go together perfectly to give us hope? The Spirit inspired those...

I've quoted them, and I can quote them again--but I go on the assumption everyone knows the passages. 1 Corinthians 9 26Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; 27but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached...

Nope, I already provided the alternative--the fact that your view is debunked is not my fault.

I just hope my NOSAS brothers are getting comfort or encouragement from the Scriptures. English Standard Version For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Berean Standard...

ESV Proverbs 11:22 Like a gold ring in a pig 's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion. The biggest part of us is what is going on between our ears--therefore, the most important thing we can do is TRUST GOD.

My real point was that the substance of NOSAS trust and comfort should be the same as OSAS : we've been with Him from the beginning, we are foreknown, predestined, Christ will lose none, no one can pry us out of God's hand.

The "filthy rags" and "fine linen" refer to different spiritual clothing.

1. Yes, "saved by grace not works" : the Jews' "salvation" from slavery by the blood of Passover lambs was a type of our salvation ("whoever sins is a slave of sin") by the blood of Christ our Passover Lamb. However, we know that the Jews, after having been saved, became reprobate through sin...

The chess board metaphor was just that--a metaphor for the discussion.