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I just accept what I read--you're the only one who can tell me about yourself, and I believe you.

Including that "pesky" word "context", yes.

You said God's children can't unbecome His children, I disproved that. God doesn't change. The same God Who did it then still does it now, but by your reasoning, again, you'd have to toss a lot of the NT out, bc Paul gets all his doctrine from the OT, as Jesus says "a scribe or a lawyer who...

Which part of the verse did you disagree with? "The one who doubts is condemned if he eats" It's not up for debate. It's as clear as clear could be. To reject it is unbelief.

@marks I strive to honor the text. God knows. I don't see another way to honor the text. I see your way as dismissing the text.

Paul says those things were written for us (1 Co 9, 10). Yep! Thanks!

I just believe the verse--the one who does what he doubts sins and is condemned. Forgive me. Lol

Condemned means "not in right standing", whereas justified means "in right standing". The verse teaches that when someone is in sin, they are not in right standing. Do you disagree?

I never said the person who sins one time is going to hell, I was simply outlining the parameters.

1. Deuteronomy 32:5 "They are no longer His children because of their defect" 2. Deuteronomy 14:1 "You are children of the LORD your God.", John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil." 3. Hos 1 "Not My People"... "It will be said 'children of the living God'" : while they are not His people...

1. The person was pardoned all their sins. 2. The person pardoned all their sins should forgive. 3. If the pardoned does not forgive, the pardon is rescinded. 4. Jesus says this applies to His disciples--they must forgive their brothers (fellow believers), or the forgiveness extended to them...

The dynamic is that God forgets righteousness just like He forgets sin--and God is the same yesterday today and forever, so, just as He still forgets sin today, He still forgets righteousness today. Today, however, "faith is counted as righteousness", thus the righteousness that is forgotten is...

If what I'm saying is not true, what do you do with... 1 John 2 19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. ...since you believe people can fall away?

Please continue response on Matthew 18, because you have not addressed it sufficiently. The guy was forgiven, meaning he was a believer, and the forgiveness was rescinded, meaning his belief was taken away--just as the lazy servant in Matthew 25, who has the "talent", the measure of faith...

Yep, they moved away, and their faith counted as righteousness was forgotten, which means, effectively, that they never were saved. If you're blotted out of the Book of Life, your name is not going to be read from it, thus it effectively isn't there.

1. That's kinda arbitrary. 2. Anyway, the saved are always saved, because the ones who fall away were never saved!

Oh, is it wrong to take phrases in tiny contexts? LOL

You know what they say : Psalm 139:12Darkness and light are alike The saved cannot become unsaved, because those who are dismissed were never saved. I just believe what I read!

In both name and reality--those who fall away were never saved, and the saved remain saved forever!

How ever you want to read Heb 6, the point is that those who fall away (I think you're NOSAS right?) are accounted as having never believed, never having been saved... therefore, the saved are kept and never lose salvation, "if they were of us they would have continued with us", because God...