The Hebrew writer is using the selling of Esau’s birthright example as something he does not want Christians to do with their birthright of eternal life.[/QUOET]
Please point specifically to the place in that passage that equates Esau's birthright as our eternal life.
If you give the gift of eternal life away then you can be killed.
Huh? There NO PLACE in Scripture that says that we can give our eternal life away, yet we CAN be killed. Your statement doesn't make any sense.
If the gift is something God continues to possess and is not really yours and it is not really a gift given to you.
Huh? God doesn't "possess the gift of eternal life". God IS eternal life. So SAYS Scripture: "And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God and eternal life."
You said: “It refers to giving up our efforts to receive eternal reward. That's what "reap a harvest" means. The verse has nothing to do with gaining salvation or giving it up.”
How can you reap “our efforts to receive eternal reward”? , since that does not make sense
I never said we "reap our efforts". I said reaping eternal life is about our efforts which are blessed by reward. To "reap eternal life" means to be blessed beyond just having eternal life. It means to receive rewards in eternity. How is that not clear?
and Paul specifically said the harvest was eternal life? There is no “effort” we put forth, but we do have the privilege of sowing the seed and God does all the hard important stuff.
Yes, for reward in eternity, we MUST put forth an effort. The Bible SAYS so: Heb 4:11 - Therefore let us be diligent (make every effort) to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.
To "enter that rest" speaks of receiving eternal reward.
Which verse says: the gifts you have been given you cannot possible give away?
I'll rephrase the question to show the fallacy of your view: Which verse SAYS that we CAN give away our salvation/eternal life? None.
If you give up you also give up the harvest (eternal life). You are either a child of God with eternal life or a child of satan without eternal life.
OK, let's go with this. Once a child of God, ALWAYS a child of God. How can we know this? The Bible makes that clear.
First, in Rom 8:35-39, Paul says that there is NOTHING that can separate us (believers, who are God's children) from the love of Christ. It is pure insanity to think that one who is a child of God will spend eternity in the lake of fire, also called the second death. This would be a separation from God, and contradict Rom 8:35-39.
Second, there are NO verses that indicate that we can lose or give away our eternal life. NONE.
Paul in Galatians is not talking to unbelievers, but believers. To the unbeliever jailer his next step is to become a believer, but to the Christians in Galatia the objective is to continue sowing after the Spirit (they are already believers), so they will continue to grow their Love. If the Galatians quit sowing after the Spirit their Love can wither to the point of not caring and thus the harvest has little value to them.
None of this proves or even indicates loss of salvation or eternal life. Apparently you're unfamiliar with the Biblical doctrine of eternal rewards.
The people in the foreign land the prodigal son went to were not children of God and the prodigal son did not want to be around God’s Children with the best example being his own father.
This proves nothing. Yes, he left his father. So what? Was he still a son? Of course he was. Once a son, always a son. Your physical DNA marks you as a son to both your father and mother. Permanently. The same is true spiritually, because the Holy Spirit indwells all believers.
Jesus tells us who the children of satan are.
Sure. Anyone who does his bidding. So what? How does that prove or even relate to loss of salvation? He wasn't speaking literally there. He was making a point about behavior.
Many many posts, and there hasn't been anything close to evidence much less proof that one can lose or give away their salvation.