Heb 10: 37-39 For in just a very little while, "He who is coming will come and will not delay.my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him." (Hab 3:3,4LXX) But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are savedShrunk back from what??
The "shrink back" is with reference to Hab 3:3,4 in the Septuagint which the writer of Hebrews quotes. These are all relevant to your reference to Heb 10. Those who turn away from the faith will be destroyed. But, as I pointed out, he predicts that "we" are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved. You're alleging that a person's final salvation is indeterminate given free will. So how do you explain this? That's my point. The only way he could have made such a prediction is that if the outcome was inevitable.
Hebrews 3
So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
Same applies to the Heb 3 passage. Notice he says, "we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast." Heb 3:6 He doesn't say "we will be his house, if ..." He uses the present tense. Once again he can only use the present tense here if the outcome, the "if statement", is an indicator of our present state rather than something that causes us to be his house. It's consistent with the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints. It's inevitable that those are presently in his house will endure to the end in their faith. This as opposed to the idea that enduring to the end in the faith is a condition for salvation.
Don't confuse the condition for salvation with the condition of the saved. Many Christians don't have genuine faith in Christ, and so don't enter his rest because of unbelief.
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