[metmom]

That’s not uncomfortable or unpleasant at all. As I showed in my previous posts to you. There is nothing in that passage that says those people were saved and had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. They rejected the Holy Spirit and the gospel thus rejected the death and resurrection of Christ.

And having rejected it, there is nothing left to go to for salvation. There is no other means of being reconciled with God.

If you reject Christ with the full knowledge of what you are rejecting, that's it.

Scripture makes it clear that there can be a final hardening of one's heart so that salvation is not possible. Pharaoh reached that point and finally GOD hardened his heart.

[CynicalBear]

Exactly.

[af_vet_1981]

There is nothing in that passage that says those people were saved and had the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

Yes, there is. They were made partakers of the Holy Ghost just as we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

Same word, same author, same meaning

They fell away and so were cut off from the olive tree, as it were.