He's apparently one of those type who has OSAS very confused- thinking that it's impossible for him to be condemned because he was baptized or some such thing.
Perseverance of the Saints (TULIP) is the original OSAS, and it sits on the notion that a person was never saved in the first place if they become corrupt. Hence perseverance, and of course sovereignty.
God does not make the mistake of bestowing grace on someone who will resist it, according to Irresistible Grace (TULIP).
You can school those like ol' Pate with just the basics of Calvinism :thumb:
You think that grace is that you have been predestinated to heaven, but multitudes have been predestinated to hell.
I have bad news for you. It is not possible to have saving faith in that kind of a God. What you have faith in is a doctrine that was conceived in the perverted mind of a heretic.