EG believes he really knows himself and how he stands in Christ, so to show through scripture
another perspective is obviously deception.
And unfortunately like many, their defence is to walk righteously as Jesus walked is impossible.
They do not believe Paul was an example or any of the apostles. To them this is the joke to
turn them closer to Jesus. But in reality it just compounds their disbelief, because every sin they
find themselves in, confirms they are right as sinners, failed individuals to believe Christ will deliver
them, at some point in the future. Such an empty useless gospel, with no growth or developement
is pointless, if they ever wake up from it.
They truly are the same once "saved" as they are today, because progress is never acheived, just
a continual realisation of how big a bunch of sinners they really are.
And if the truth actually gets through, they will say, that is satan showing them their failure and
condemning them, to drive them to depend on Christ more.
This mindset is like a swamp that engulfs them and sucks them deeper down the more they think
about it. I truly pity this condescending gospel of defeat. Why should anyone want to believe
this if they are happy with their lives as they are, because there is nothing offered here but pie
in the sky.