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Oh! I thought what I said reinforced eternal security and therefore was in the spirit of the thread. I emphasised the fact that we are righteous and still sinners at the same time, and therefore our shortcoming and failure do not undermine our eternal security.
"There is no condemnation to those who are in Jesus Christ, because the law of the Spirit of life has set up free from the law of sin and death" (Romans 8:1-2).
"Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life" (John 5:24). And there is no going back for any reason, even our own struggles with sin!
(By the way, I trust that you are not thinking I am Arminian because of my Pentecostal ID. I am actually am elder of the Presbyterian Church of NZ and decidedly Puritan Calvinist! Before that I spent 8 years of my life in Baptist churches, 4 of them as a deacon, before I moved to Auckland and wanted to go to a church that was just walking distance from home.)
What I'm thinking is you're a pain in the neck.
So you enter into the thread with this OP:
If the gift of eternal life has been given on the basis of our faith alone in Christ, apart from anything we can do, positively or negatively, then if it can be taken away again for any reason, it wouldn't be eternal.
Your post says salvation can be lost. The post you claim ''reinforced'' eternal security had no scripture attached to it,so that wasn't helpful.
Are we done yet?
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