Eternal life is not a yo-yo proposition. You don't receive His eternal life then lose it then get it back through incantations and rituals performed with 'priests'..
The glorious TRUTH IS when you believe in Whom God sent for your salvation you are right then saved. To be saved is to have His Life in your before-dead dead spirit. John 10:27-30 tells us that once He saves us we are in His hands and no one can snatch us from him, not even we ourselves! If you could save you then He went to the cross for not much. But if He sves you, it is then God who is in you both to will and do of HIS good pleasure.
In the Upper Room Discourse given on the night He was betrayed by Judas, none other than Jesus introduces the hidden mystery of His church age and it is Jesus who assures us that he is preparing places for us inthe Father;s House and will come to take us there. God's love is so great and vast and powerful that once He delivers on His Promise to abide in the born again spirit it is He who is then resonsible for His children. Some will grow in grace and knowledge and some wil;l sputter along, but all are His children by the rebirth only He can do.
Once a member of His family, He desires your cooperation to grow in grce and knowledge, BUT your position in His family is not ever again at issue. How mature you become is hopwever an issue which REQUIRES your participation.
There is coming soon a moment when God does something ONLY He can do and that is transform His children into glorified bodies to dwell with Jesus forevermore. in a hyper-dimensional coordinate system you and I cannot see in our current physical configuration. But John indicates that when He appears int he first Heaven to gather us to himself we shall have been transformed into glorified PHYSICAL beings like he is now, for we will then be able to see him in His glorified hyper-dimensional state.
I hope to see you in the clouds, someday, on our way up to meet Him there.
Catholicism is NOT a "works based religion and your attacks are founded in ignorance of Church history and doctrine.
Your understanding of Scripture is not endowed with any authority.
Hebrews 6:4-6 “For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they then commit apostasy, since they crucify the Son of God on their own account and hold him up to contempt.”
MHGinTN wrote: “Oh my, this is not an issue of someone’s supremacy, it is an issue of rightly dividing the Word.”
Again, MHG is saying that only he knows how to rightly divide the Word. If your math (division) isn’t what his is, you are on your way to Hell.