Thanks, Caveman. You bring up some good points.
Generally speaking, I'm still waiting for the salvation-loss supporters out there to tell/show me how they know they're saved right now; given that they have not yet shown to us any defining point for such an alleged loss. None of them seems to possess the intestinal fortitude to define that line so that any one of us can understand where that ellusive point lies. All their rhetorical meanderings through scripture leads only to a mine field with unseen and contrived salvation-loss mines just waiting to be triggered and detonated.
Therein is the reason I question their salvation on the basis of their fallacious, works-based interpretational model and given that they alone stand in that mine field, stepping gingerly through life while never able to show to anyone else that they are saved in the moment apart from mere claims to the affirmative.
They talk much about their security in Christ but never dare show to anyone else where that deadly line rests. In other words, their sharing of the Kingdom Gospel they preach, and are accursed, directed toward unbelievers makes their sharing and testimony utterly without merit for the security they claim to be enjoying. It's a dichotomy, as
@studier so aptly pointed out in relation to my statements, and yet he too has yet to show to us all anything that shows his beliefs are not themselves riddled with exacting elements of dichotomy.
Why would anyone want to become a believer in a religion that has no defining boundaries? The salvation-loss gang have nothing more substantial than their feelings and emotions as their perceived evidence for them being saved in this moment to qualify as ministers of their beliefs.
Salvation loss people, please stop dodging the bullet and show to us, from scripture, a solid definition for where that line for loss of salvation allegedly rests, and how you people know you're saved right now...without elusive and emotive argumentation please...
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