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I'd search for any mention of the "day of redemption". If the teaching is in the book, it could not be presented without mentioning that phrase.

https://www.theologyonline.com/threads/what-happens-to-the-severely-backslidden-christian.61468/

Much of the debate around eternal security and apostasy boils down to a false dichotomy. Either you are eternally secure and therefore incapable of ever walking away from God, or you can lose your salvation at any moment through sin, disbelief, or some other failure. I reject both extremes. The...

Very well. I don't recall. I don't think so. I wish I had the pdf version of the book so I could do a search. Maybe someone reading this could do that for me.

Neither say that. You are reading things into the text. For those who are not severely backslidden, there'd be no choice to make. 100% true - even for the severely backslidden, at least for some period of time. This doesn't apply at all because no one in this parable was a member of the Body...

Repeating you position doesn't count as an argument. Ignoring my argument doesn't count as a response. Until you respond with some sort of substance, I'll assume you have nothing of substance to respond with. The fact is that I can be moved but not by obfuscation and mischaracterizations. If...

Once again, I am both discourage and encouraged by the fact that, in order to reject my doctrine, people are forced to mischaracterize it and put words in my mouth that would never otherwise be there. Discouraged especially because those who do it seem to be the ones quickest to accuse me of...

That guy needs a much higher quality backpack with legitimate straps that properly support the weight across his whole upper torso. Based on the age of the image, the ammo there is likely .227. If it were anything bigger, he'd get knocked off his feet with the way that backpack is shifting his...

Neither passage refers to a person who is severely backslidden. As such your post is unresponsive to the question at hand. We are not here talking about the average Christian, and even less about people who we might consider to be strong in the faith. Their reaction to meeting God is obvious...

Now which of us is being dishonest, RD? The Day of Redemption is the day we are discussing. I'm pretty sure you knew that already. Then don't refute anything. Just respond to the following.... A woman grows up in church, becomes a believer in Christ and is genuinely saved. Later in life, she...

I don't follow. What "dead babies question", and how does it connect to Option 2? Everyone who doesn't end up in either the New Heaven or the New Earth will find the Lake of Fire. Right?

I am under the impression, although I could not establish it at the moment, that the day of redemption is the day when the process begins of Christians going through a judgement where we will receive rewards or suffer the loss of rewards. (I Corinthians 3:13–15; II Corinthians 5:10) This is...

Ideas have consequences Right Divider, as you well know! Why will you not engage the argument? On that day, one of three things will happen... Option 1: She (i.e. a severely backslidden Christian) joyfully embraces God as He truly is If this is your answer, then you're conceding my core...

It's so frustrating that such a plainly obvious fact of not only history but of LONG establish philosophy has to continually be restated over and over again.

We agree! I ask again.... In what way then does my example fail? Forget using Hillary Clinton as a specific example. Perhaps that's too much of a hypothetical for your mind to wrap itself around. Just keep it generic if that helps. Just assume a severely backslidden Christian finds himself...