I guess it's by Abigail's standards that we'll be able to know if we've kept the faith and perservered!

She's going to have a busy time on judgement day deciding who Christ died for. I know that's a biting and sarcastic comment, but the Pelagian's continued confustion of Justification with Sanctification is a serious error and continues plague the Church.

Very well stated, Biblical Truth!

Nothing personal against KK & Abigail, but they are two of a growing number of Semi or Full-Pelagians frequenting SA. I thought there were a lot of Romanists to debate, but it's just as frustrating dealing with these folks. Romanist don't bother with Scripture for the most part. The Pelagian, however, pits Scripture against Scripture--holding up a handful of misunderstood texts (primarily parables) against the countless main and plain verses teaching election and eternal security. The Pelagian has one foot in Rome anyway--whether they admit it or not.

The best way to answer any false teaching is to do what you did--quote Sacred Scripture, but don't hold your breath that Abigail, Freewiller or others will take it to heart.

It's obvious you can't rightly handle the Word of Truth. You've done nothing but paraphrase parables. I repeat, these works or not the basis of our salvation.

-Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Galatians 3:2-3

I really am done arguing with you. You can have the last word. I've said all I'm going to say to you, except come on out of the Romanist closet.

"... Jesus did his work alone, but HE expects us to obey him and finish ours."

NOT ONCE have I suggested a true believer will not bear fruit. However, that fruit is the RESULT, not the basis, of God's grace in Christ!

You mentioned apostasy and falling away in your first response to my initial post, as a supposed proof of your deviant position that the true believer can be lost. Let's look at Scripture, shall we? Something I have done repeatedly and you have not done once.

-"For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect." Matthew 24:24
-They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 1 John 2:19
-And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. Phillipians 1:6

Shall I keep going? Although I don't know how much longer I want to fuss with you. You know your road leads to Rome, right? Maybe you should come out and expound on "purgatory".

What does "rationalizes the scriptures" mean? I've simply taken a few of countless passages in the Bible that condemn your heresy. These are straight-forward words!! You're the one that twists scripture to your own destruction. Scripture DOES NOT contradict itself. So you need to understand the parables in light of these things.

All imperatives in Scripture follow the indicatives. It doesn't go in the other direction. You don't earn a promise. You act out of the knowledge of that promise!

Like all Pelagians, you confuse justification with sanctification. Just can't stand to give Christ "all" the glory, huh? You'll have a lot to boast about to Christ, huh?