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How could Jesus lose someone He never had? Where does it say Judas never believed Jesus?

So I guess both Peter and Paul didn't really know what they were talking about. Interesting. But you are right, I am not ready for your brand of whatever.

Based upon that, I don't think you have a very good understanding of God's foreknowledge. God's foreknowledge has nothing to do with "revealed knowledge to mankind". God's foreknowledge is simply His omniscience with respect to the future. Omniscience is defined as “the state of having total...

Joh 17:11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. Joh 17:12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have...

You apparently do not perceive the difference between believing God and believing in God. One can believe that God exists but does not believe in God. I know, because I had a very, very good and close friend, now gone, who believed that God exists, but could not get it through his head any of...

Death, life, angels, principalities, powers, things present, things to come, height, depth, and any other creature, are the subjects. Specifically note that he says "nor ANY OTHER creature. It seems to me that "any other creature" would exclude ourselves.

Paul didn't say, "nothing can separate us". Read it again.

Rom 4:3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness....... Rom 4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; Rom 4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus...

We ourselves is not the subject of Paul's statement.

Before being born again, not everything the person does is sinful. And after being born again, not everything a person does is sin free. In REgeneration, one is not set free of the desires of the flesh and of the mind. In REgeneration, first, one is forgiven of his sin and second, he is given...

God's Omniscience is not causative. While what God foreknows is absolutely certain, it is not His foreknowledge that makes it certain. In the case of man's free will, through His foreknowledge, God knows for certain, what CHOICES man will make.

Which is it? Lose salvation, or not lose salvation? I corrected my typo.

The entire letter of Hebrews was written to persuade Jewish Christians to not renounce their faith in Christ and return to the old covenant ways. Hebrews is the appeal of the author against apostacy. If OSAS is a true doctrine, then the entire letter to the Hebrews is of no consequence...

But even that is a decision made through our free will. Free will is a key to all of our actions of and through faith. Free will is what allows one to even believe in God, i.e., to have faith. It is also what would allow to cease to believe in God, and in such a case to lose or give up...

What has any of that got to do with my questions?

But none of that says that one who once believed no longer has free will and cannot quit believing.

Oh good grief. Now there is a "shallow faith" How many other things do you have to make up in order to defend your erroneous ideas?

I think that you are confused about what James says. But that's okay, sort of. Many are. Even Martin Luther was confused; so confused that he wanted to remove James from the Bible.

I draw the distinction between the wheat and the tares? (Matthew 24:24-30), the tares are not believers. I draw the distinction between genuine brethren and false brethren? (2 Corinthians 11:26; Galatians 2:4) The false brethren are not believers. I draw the distinction between those who are...

And you just did that with your parenthetical (if it was possible). If it were not possible, the author would have never given it as a conditional.