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I'm not 100% sure, but maybe I got the answer while I was answering one of the previous replies. It is hard to "believe" when every word stated has another word that dissolves the previous word you were supposed to believe.

@Davy In other words, as Revelation 3:10 says, "Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you..." : the Word keeps those who keep the Word.

So, with respect to the verses I was asking about, when Christ says He will lose none, but, also, branches (disciples) can be cut off, how would you approach those? How can I believe that Christ will lose none when He also says branches can be cut off if THEY don't abide. This sounds more like...

John teaches "if they were of us, they would have continued with us", which someone could argue necessarily follows from, "I will lose none, but will raise them up on the last day", but, also, Jesus says disciples who do not abide (by faith in the Name of God's Son and by walking in love 1 John...

It is unwarranted, and I will thank you to remain on topic.

Thanks for sharing. I guess you're laying the groundwork for Monergism?

It really is my thread (in the sense that I started it, and did so for my purposes), and I am Synergist, but I am not sure I should be, or how that ultimately is worked out, and I don't want arguing about WHETHER OR NOT Monergism is true (there are UNLIMITED threads where that is the topic being...

I didn't even realize you were involved, I just saw endless fights about the subject by this-and-that user, and I remembered I really just wanted to talk about the topic with people who are acquainted with it, not argue about it with people who didn't believe in it (I already know the arguments...

Guys, I said I didn't want another thread where there were arguments about Monergism, that I just wanted to speak about it with people who were acquainted with it and be edified.

I already know the other side. I don't need convincing about it.

No, I'm interested in Calvinism because I think it has benefit to it.

I find it hard to believe, given how much I have argued against Monergism, anyone would have to ask me that.

Why would I want to debate it when I already know the other side? I want to learn about the Monergistic side.

Ecumenism is not the topic.

Are you Monergist?

As noted, I'm not interested in quarreling about the topic.

I've been saying I wanted to discuss with Monergists--and in the reply, I said I didn't want to argue, and, since you're not a Monergist, and your reply indicates you want to disagree (argue) about the topic, I'm really not interested.

You're not a Monergist, are you?

I've heard that, in some cases (eg, potatoes), farmers refuse to eat "organic" foods they grow, because they MUST use certain substances on them--but even in cases where they don't "have to", they are allowed to use synthetic substances--so they grow three crops, so they can eat something...

I have noticed after I get out my skin is itchy. Before, I used a sauna often, but it broke. (It was $750, but this one works just as good at $200.) I never got itchy after using the sauna before. However, once, after eating organic strawberries, I got itchy. I know it is the pesticides. In the...