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The point is, as always, that people may find solace in believing that they do not have to persevere, but the true ones will indeed persevere. To count yourself among the elect is above our pay grade.
Then how do you interpret these scriptures ...5:11 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
5:13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.