“I call bull hockey on that statement.”
Why? Do you just like making assertions about people you don’t know? You don’t believe people can make a significant change? That I am a former Christian pastor is no more incredible than that you are a former homosexual. Is it?
True.
History is replete with those who did NOT endure to the end.
The simple fact that you would post such vapid arguments that even a first year seminarian would be able to answer, plus the fact that won’t let go of them, tells me everything I need to know about the truth, or lack thereof, of your statement.
I would expect someone who claims to have been a chemist for 30 years to have even the faintest idea of what the periodic table is. Considering that salvation by grace is just THE foundation of the Christian faith, I would expect anyone who claims to have such experience to know the basis of what the faith IS.
That and your ad hominem argument and your attempt at appeal to experience fails.
Either you’re a poor liar or you were an awful pastor. I’m leaning towards poor liar.
I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.