When it reaches the point that another (self-claimed) believer questions one's very roots of belief, what is left for one to say in one's own defense?
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Exactly NOTHING, dear brother in Christ!
IMHO, FWIW.
Such folk are not just questioning you, they are judging you. And the criterion of judgment that they use is the "correctness" of your understanding of Holy Scripture, as they see it.
IOW, what they are implicitly saying is that your salvation depends on your "correct" understanding of Scripture, and not so much about how you live your life.
Yet to me, a Christian life is not so much defined by what one "knows"; it is defined by how one lives — following Christ.
Christ tells us to love our neighbor as ourself; to be a mediator of His peace, love, light, forgiveness, kindness, understanding, in faith and hope, into this world of mortality. He does not authorize us to be the "judge" of anything, let alone of our neighbor.
Judgment is His exclusive privilege — to be exercised when He comes the next time, with fire in His eyes, and a flaming sword in His hand....
That being the case, my best recommendation to all is to cultivate humility, or poverty of spirit. This is what gains a reward in Heaven. What one knows — or thinks one knows — is completely irrelevant on Judgment Day.
Just my humble thoughts on the matter, FWIW.
May the love and peace and mercy and light of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with you always — you, and all your dear ones!