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I've addressed ALL of your cherry-picked verses by showing you how you took them out of context.
No, you have not shown that my verses are out of context. I can say that your verses are out of context; and that you have cherry-picked them.
What you need to do (at the very least) is to reconcile your verses with a singular verse that you have not yet been able to answer...John 5:24 (kjv).
Jhn 5:24, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
Here, let me expound again.
This is an absolute promise by Jesus as indicated by His words, Verily, verily, I say unto you.
The condition of the promise is that you hear Jesus' words and believe on Him who sent Him.
The promise is that you shall not come into condemnation but have passed from death unto having everlasting life.
If life is everlasting, it cannot come to an end. If it were to come to an end, then it was always temporal life and not everlasting life.
I believe,
@BreadOfLife, that you are opposing yourself (Acts of the Apostles 18:6, 2 Timothy 2:25).
For you are missing out on a very good helmet for the day of battle (Ephesians 6:10-18, 1 Thessalonians 5:8).
It doesn't work that way. You must take ALL of the verses about salvation, security - and the WARNINGS about losing it all into context.
I have done so.
Hebrews 10:26-27
“If we sin deliberately AFTER receiving KNOWLEDGE of the truth, there no longer remains sacrifice for sins but a fearful prospect of judgment and a flaming fire that is going to consume the adversaries.”
This is a clear warning that falling away from God will result in the loss of our salvation. The Greek ford for “knowledge” used here is NOT the usual word (oida). This is talking about a full, experiential knowledge (epignosei). This verse is about CHRISTIANS who had an EPIGNOSIS of Christ and who can fall back into darkness and LOSE their salvation by their own doing.
2 Peter 2:20-22
For if they, having escaped the defilements of the world through the KNOWLEDGE of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, again become entangled and overcome by them, their last condition is worse than their first.
For it would have been better for them not to have KNOWN the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment handed down to them.
Here, Peter illustrates that those who had a full, experiential knowledge (epignosei) of Christ – CHRISTIANS – who can fall back into darkness and LOSE their salvation by their own doing.
Just tale some scissors and cut John 5:24, John 6:47, and John 10:27-30 out of your Bible.
The verses above are intended to produce the fear of the LORD in the believer in Christ. If any believer has the fear of the LORD, they shall not depart from the LORD (Jeremiah 32:38-40 (kjv), Psalms 19:9 (kjv)).
Also, no one can snatch them out of God's hand; they shall never perish; and they shall not come into condemnation; and they have passed from death unto eternal and everlasting life (if you would but read the passages that I have referenced above).
Your method of dealing with these verses is not honest. You discount them by calling them cherries that I have picked.
I have news for you: every cherry has a seed within it that, when planted, is capable of producing an entire tree.
And again, I can also say that you have cherry-picked your verses. This time I have three passages and you only have two, and therefore I have your passages outnumbered; and therefore you are the one who is cherry-picking.
While I do not discount your verses.
You also have not answered the fact that the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable, according to Romans 11:29 (nkjv); and that salvation, or eternal life, is the gift of God (Romans 6:23). How then is salvation even revocable?
