It sounds like you are back peddling from your other two posts, but at least you admit now that it wasn't a done deal that they lost their salvation.
I've been saying this all along.
They've not without hope because God is still giving them room to come back to Jesus.
But Hebrews 6:4-6 makes it clear that He will make it so they can't come back if they refuse Paul's plea.
A "professing" believer "permanently" going back to the law for justification would prove that their faith was never firmly rooted and established from the start, yet genuine believers (especially babes in Christ who are Jewish) can get sidetracked by legalistic teachers and temporarily stumble.
Dan, they literally quit believing in Christ for justification.
You say that shows they were never saved to begin with.
The letter affirms that they were indeed very much saved.
You have to ignore these plain facts in order to continue to believe in your osas beliefs.
If they are truly born again, then God will preserve them (Psalm 37:28; Jude 1:1) and their faith will ultimately not fail.
The Galatians prove the emboldened part wrong.
I can't just sweep away the plain record of the scriptures to believe what you say.
The apostle Peter "fell away" at the time of Jesus' arrest and denied Christ 3 times, but his faith did not fail.
That's right, Peter did not go back to unbelief (like the Galatians did).
He's not even relevant to our discussion.
You're using the example of someone whose belief in Christ did not fail to prove that those whose belief in Christ did fail did not lose their salvation.
Philippians 1:6 - being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
...if you keep believing.
Even your version of osas agrees with that.
This new osas that has replaced yours is far, far more opposed to your osas than even my non-osas is, yet you won't lift a finger to address it. That's telling me something, dan. I can't ignore that.