It really serves no purpose to argue or debate this issue. Sit back, relax and what will be will be. I happen to agree with your assessment and believe we will be proven right in the end (which just might be sooner than later). However, to try reasoning with those who choose to believe differently is like trying to make butter out of skim milk. You just aren’t going to get anywhere. I agree that it does no good in arguing with those who have made up their minds.
However there are many who are not aware of the truth and are being deceived by these false teachers who twist or ignore clear scripture.
We should do what we can to let them know the scriptures really say on the issue.
"However there are many who are not aware of the truth and are being deceived by these false teachers who twist or ignore clear scripture."
If there is any truth in the New Testament at all (and I believe there is), it is found in John, Chapter 3, verse 16. That single verse lays out the only
requirement of salvation; i.e. being a Christian.
When she was alive, my mother and I used to "discuss" scripture endlessly. She often feared she had raised a heretic because of our endless disagreements about traditions of men, interpretations of Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin languages and ultimately eschatology. No matter how often we disagreed over details, or how heated our discussions became, we always ended our talks with the ultimate bottom line of John 3:16 and she could rest easy knowing her child, while misinformed and ignorant of scripture as she understood it (and had obediently taught me) - was not damned for all time, but saved by grace because "
... whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." That's it; that's all. There is no scriptural requirement that anyone believe anything other than God loves us and gave his Son to save us. That's the bread that sustains us, all the rest is gravy.