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"EHHH! Sorry, Hans, wrong guess!" 1) Paul debunks eternal security when he declares believers who have heard the Gospel and received the Spirit by faith (Galatians 3:1-5) consequently fell away from the faith (Galatians 1:6, Galatians 5:4). What does it mean that "Christ is of no avail to you"...

The entire Epistle to the Galatians is about how Christians are not to serve by the Torah but by Grace. It never once touches the issue of "eternal security" except to debunk it indirectly since it shows believers fell away from the faith.

It is irrelevant whether they were "all" "true" : he specifies that the ones who are erring by seeking to be under Law had already heard the Gospel and received the Spirit by faith (Gal 3:1-5), and these were the same group which had been "severed from Christ" (Gal 5:4).

Romans 2 6He will render to each one according to his works: 7to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8but for those who are self-seekinga and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 9There...

Again, the NT teaches us to defer to the OT in the very way I am doing. 1 Corinthians 10 11Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

I've already addressed this. You haven't read--not the Scripture, and not my answers (not carefully, at least)--the text says it directly corresponds to those who have been "born again". You can reject Apostolic doctrine if you want but join a different religion don't pretend to be a...

1) God, in Deuteronomy 32:5, refutes your carnal reasoning--God's children can "unbecome" God's children. You cannot just come into Scripture and define Scripture by your carnal reasoning, you must let Scripture define itself as "My ways are higher than your ways". 2) "Salvation" isn't...

Actually : 1) 1 Co 10 teaches what happened to the Jews directly corresponds to Christians so yes it is Eminently Relevant. 2) 2 Ti 3 teaches the OT teaches us about Christianity--hence Paul's constant refrain, "as it is written". 3) Dt 32 shows that children of God can "unbecome" children of...

1 Corinthians 10 1For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers,a that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3and all ate the same spiritual food, 4and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they...

I double-checked, and I was wrong : it was in Jerusalem that it was explicitly stated that the Gentile believers were being convinced to receive "circumcision" (the same error being dealt with all throughout the epistle), but the incident I'd raised was the one in Antioch. That said, however...

If that's all you saw you haven't read it. It specifies Gentiles were submitting to circumcision. Also it's not just a "custom" of not eating with Gentiles, that was because they were observing the Law which forbids eating certain foods--precisely the same error being addressed in Galatia.

Yep and some people fall away from the faith--and we see in Hebrews 3 that it is possible to fall away from the faith due to sin which hardens the heart and turns your heart into an evil heart of unbelief.

Nope, he didn't need to "learn" anything. He knew he was being a "hypocrite". It explicitly states he erred because he feared the Jewish believers--"the fear of man brings a snare". Irrespectively, Peter was not walking according to the truth and was misleading the Gentiles and causing them to...

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I agree we must obey, it seemed you held that we invariably follow the leading and it was with that idea (which I've heard before) that I'd disagreed.

The issue isn't whether we will or won't tremble the issue is whether salvation may or may not be lost.

Precisely. IF. Meaning if you don't meet the condition you will not reap eternal life but will die (Romans 2:6-16; Galatians 6:6-10).

That's not the issue at hand.

Nope, Peter didn't obey the Spirit's leading according to Galatians 2 which says he was not walking in accordance with the Truth of the Gospel. That's an incorrect reading. He leads but that doesn't guarantee we follow. Are we following Him when we sin? Nope!

Irrelevant.