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Yet, "if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of His Son cleanses us of all our sins"--obviously, it refers to continuing in sin, as the Gnostic heretics had taught, and does not mean "Christians don't sin". Yet, some do not abide...

No, it's not "a rule of thumb", as you mean it, because men sin all of the time, yet it was only then that the men who engaged in the particular act would be "blotted out". Surely their other sins had not escaped God's notice, any single one of which would (on your view) have resulted in their...

The same people told "you stand by your faith" are also told "if you disbelieve you too will be cut off".

There's no other way to go about it. I wish all the other interactions on this thread were more like this interaction--instead, there has inevitably been a devolution into feces-tossing.

I haven't thought about it--haven't had to (I've had other questions).

Moses never said "every man on earth is in the book", only that he was in it.

When God says "No Mercy" and "Not My People" (Hos 1), it is clear that the status of "God's people" is that people to which God is merciful. That is why they are in His Book.

As stated, the Book is not mentioned except with regard to His people Demonstrate that all souls are in the Book. I categorically deny that.

David said "in sin I was conceived", so all men would arrive on earth not in the book. There would be no later time in their lives when they would be removed. Again you're not reading it in context.

God isn't saying "anyone on earth who has committed any sin against Me is going to be blotted out of My Book"; God's statement regards, in context, the incident that had just occurred with His people. Moses' request is against the intentions of God regarding the sin His people had just committed.

No, if that's case, if you believe me are born spiritually dead, no one would be in the book as a "default".

I understand how you read it--I disagree.

Just as Moses said to blot his name out, Paul said he wished he could be accursed--the meaning being blotted out is being accursed, cut off from God.

We'll see. Not just "people", but "His people" . Not all people are in His book.

@marks An example of what this means would be Paul saying "I could wish that I could be accursed", not "someone died".

I understand your perspective--as explained, I 100% agree with the individual parts of your argument, I only disagree with the conclusion of your argument, which does not take into account that God forgets righteousness.

Things He has people do is irrelevant, doesn't change Who God is (God's character, what God does). God forgets righteousness--what righteousness is may have changed, but His forgetting righteousness cannot. For the purposes for which names are written there it was never there. No, names being...

It's irrelevant. The issue is God forgets righteousness--that dynamic is at play bc He doesn't change. How does it manifest itself in your "take" on Scripture?

I'm saying something that hits the ear a little odd--your having partaken will retroactively never have occurred if you do not continue in faith.

God forgetting righteousness is not going to change, because God doesn't change, and "these things were written for our instruction". Righteousness is still how we are blessed, only what righteousness is is different today. Faith is counted as righteousness. "God Is Our Righteousness" (Jer...