[kosta50]

The Biblical teaching is that the children of God will not be allowed to fall away permanently. I don't see any problem with Paul's teaching here

That is the reformed interpretation of the Bible. You left out a significant part of my post which said:

(2) Second, you claim that the reason they persist in unbelief is because they were never "in" (actually, "God didn't want them to be 'in'"), yet Paul says again, indicating that they were "in," and they lost it.

Since you would say that those who fall away were never in, how can they be brought in again?

But now you are changing your story: you are no longer claiming they wree never in, but are saying they do fall away—temporarily! Theology on-on-the-fly.

The NT says God will not let those who are His be snatched away from Him. That, of course, applies to those who die in repentance. God will claim those souls forever.

[kosta50]

Ping, sorry.

[MarkBsnr]

That’s the neat thing about becoming one’s own Pope. If you don’t like something, reinterpret it (or lose it completely) and hey presto!!! a brand new theology.

Many Protestant theologies that I’ve debated hang on a single or handful of verse and exist in opposition to other verse; James and Revelation barely escaped Luther’s axe. No wonder Luther added “alone” to Romans 3:28 to create the brand new theme of “faith alone”, no wonder he cunningly reinterpreted “works of law” to “good works”.

If one reads Romans 3:28 as:

For we consider that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

it reads a whole lot different than Luther’s version of:

For we consider that a person is justified by faith alone apart from good works.

and it creates the justification of a whole new heretical doctrine.

No wonder Luther hated James and Maccabees 1 and 2 so much - they support the Catholic doctrines regarding purgatory and good works.