This coming from a person who doesn't believe that Christ death alone saved them He died for!
You even have to torture launguage to get it to say what you want...
"...believe that Christ death alone saved them He died for..."
Goodness...them he died for still remains all who have fallen...as He wishes all to be saved...
Humanity, the world He so loved, was His target market. Not all buy what He is selling. Some even buy it then return it.
Peter spoke of this:
2 Peter 2:20 (CJB)
20 Indeed, if they have once escaped the pollutions of the world
through knowing our Lord and Deliverer, Yeshua the Messiah,
and then have again become entangled and defeated by them,
their latter condition has become worse than their former.
What was their FORMER CONDITION?
Ask Paul:
Ephesians 2:11-12 (CJB)
11 Therefore, remember your former state:
you Gentiles by birth —
called the Uncircumcised by those who,
merely because of an operation on their flesh, are called the Circumcised —
12 at that time had no Messiah.
You were estranged from the national life of Isra’el.
You were foreigners to the covenants embodying God’s promise.
You were in this world without hope and without God.
They were always without God...not destined by Him...but now given a way to Him
Given what and when?
2 Peter 1:1 (CJB)
1 … To: Those who, through the righteousness of our God
and of our Deliverer Yeshua the Messiah,
have been given the same kind of trust as ours:
Without hope and without God became given the same kind of trust as ours.
They became given through Him...but still become entangled again...return like a dog to its vomit
So is He an Indian giver...give them the trust joy and glory and then take it back as they were not predestined...
Why? for what purpose would He do that?
Your predestination forces you into arguing they were never saved to begin with...so Peter and Paul lie?
Yah lies?
His Son too?
You are forced to argue they were never saved as you make being saved permanent like marriage
and rather than accept that people make bad decisions or change their minds or fail you are forced to come up with man made processes...like the one called anullments...the church investigates and concludes your marriage was never valid...as if God brings together in error...
or gives His gifts in error...
People return gifts all the time despite the giving being valid...
Is why we are to work out our salvation with fear and trembling...
If salvation were predestined it it wouldn't be a life changer...the joy is gone...worse, we deserve what we get because we were predestined to it...