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I am not putting any restrictions on God, I am going by what God said verbatim . We can choose to believe His testimony and those of His apostles and prophets but sin (disobedience) separated us from God Isa 59:2 according to God, not me, thats not how we are going to be reconciled. Rev 22:14 Mat 7:21-23. My suggestion, would be instead of fighting against obeying God and His holy commandments Rom 7:12 ask His help in keeping them John 14:15-18 John 15:5-10. Although we do have free will and we can keep following those beforehand that did the same thing and didn’t work out. Heb 4:11. God does not love us more than He loved them. Rom 2:11. He loves the world and wants to save everyone, He doesn't let go of us, we let go of Him when we choose another to serve. Whoever we obey is who we serve Rom 6:16. God won’t force us to obey Him, but if we love Him Exo 20:6 John 14:15 1 John5:3 we will want to obey serve Him. Isa 56:6Who are you to put restrictions on whom God saves? Everyone sins. People who have been redeemed by God still sin because all that is accomplished in the act of justification is that our LEGAL standing before God has been cleansed. When we stand before God, He sees us as clean because Jesus is standing between us and Him. Our PENALTY has been paid. We, personally, are not cleansed. Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit to help us conform to the image of Christ, but as long as we are still in the presence of sin, we will still sin.
Hebrews was written to the believing Jews, and in particular, Hebrews 6 and 10 was written regarding those Jewish believers who believed Jesus was the promised messiah and believed in his sacrifice and started following Him, to turn back to the ways of Judaism with its laws and sacrifices, knowing Jesus fulfilled the law and the sacrifices, due to pressures they couldn’t bear (likely shunning by their families and other pressures put on them to force them to return). This is a situation that is almost unreproducible for us, and so those verses are taken way out of context.
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