Then I have to disagree with you.
How do you know you cannot “pluck” yourself out of somewhere? Mark 9:47 talks about plucking out your own eye.
The eyeball did not jump out of its socket and can’t. Christians have the gift of salvation which no one can take away and even God will not take it back. The individual Christians owns his own salvation, since a gift that is given becomes that person’s possession. If God was holding you back against your will He would be a kidnapper, so is that what you think God is?
I believe "no man" means exactly what it says "no man". That includes the person in His hands since they are part of man.
No man can take you away, kidnap you from God’s family, but like the prodigal son you can leave and God will allow you to leave, just as the Father allowed the prodigal son to leave.
So you don't believe other people can lead believers astray?
The person has to “allow” others to lead them astray, just as Eve had to allow Satan to tempt her, he said what she wanted to hear, she was to be busy help Adam, she did not cut the satan off to seek counseling from Adam and/or God.
No one who accepts a gift would consider it kidnapping or being held against there will.
Wait just a minute here: people accept the gift of USA citizenship and a life in the USA, yet give it up sometimes, if they could not give it up would they be held against their will?
Can you give an example of someone who would like to snatch us out of His hand.
Satan, demons, evil living people?
Individuals Christians, themselves get caught up in the perceived pleasures of sin for a season, to the point they no long desire being “Loved” in spite of what they have done and/or will do. People become so engrossed in being loved for the way they want others to perceive them to be and no longer want to humble themselves to the point of accepting pure charity (Godly type Love) and thus place no value on Godly Love so they will give it up.
Like I said, Esau's birthright wasn't a gift, it was a payment. I gift doesn't ask anything back in return.
“What?” Esau was gifted
his birthright of the first born, by being the first born (nothing Esau did), but that does not mean Esau cannot sell or give away his birthright. I am
not saying: “Esau gifted Jacob with his birthright”, but am just trying to show something that cannot be lost, stolen, taken back or earned can have the ownership transferred to another only by the individual himself, if that included some payment or not is insignificant since no payment is worth, Esau giving up his birthright, yet he gave it up for a bowl of soup. Satan will buy our birthright to heaven on the cheap any time.
So you don't belive you can get your salvation back if you lose it even if you repent?
Sin is not what takes your birthright to heaven away, but getting caught up in a sinful life to the point you no longer desire God’s Love after experiencing God’s Love, will cause you to fall away without a recovery path, because what else can be done, you have experienced God’s Love and no longer want Godly type Love.
No it doesn't, it talks about not giving up on doing good so we can reap a harvest . Not the same thing.
You’re giving up sowing good seed, which means at one time you did sow good seed and would have a harvest of eternal life, but now the you will not have eternal life. That giving up resulted in the loss of eternal life, so by giving up you are also giving up eternal life.
So you don't believe someone who repents like the prodigal son can get their salvation back if they walked away from it?
It is not just a wandering away like some lost sheep, but giving up what you
knowing have experienced. The prodigal son prior to leaving never embraced the attitude of unconditional selfless Love, like a Christian does with conversion. The prodigal son from what he said to the father (virtually saying: “I wish you were dead so I could have my inheritance”) shows he choose not to Love the Father to begin with. Christians that “fall away” can be like the lost coin or lost sheep, but to be like the prodigal son you do not start out as a Christian, since the prodigal son does not love the father prior to leaving.