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1. This is why you are wrong fundamentally. You believe God owes something to somebody, so that somebody can have a claim if God does not give him/her anything, just because he/she has done something which is good according to him/her. The God of the Bible does not have any debt to any of his creation. God has known the people that He will save, based on his authority,grace and omniscience, before the foundation of the earth.
2. That's again your fallacy. Even the first hearing of the Gospel, and later obeying of the Gospel, are possible to be done by sinners only because of the Grace of the Holy Spirit. Your problem is that you think sins are just like a mistake in an examination. It is much worse than that, it brings you falling short before the Glory of God and brings you to think that the Gospel is a stumbing block and/or foolishness. 1 Corinthians 1: 23-24 "but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness, but unto those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God."
3. False. They had been thinking that they were in the Gospel; They had been thinking that they obeyed the truth; They had been thinking that they were in grace. But in fact, all of them were false hopes made by their own thinking, since they were never Christian to start of with. God will never fail. The Bible says there is no ex-Christian, he/she went out from Christianity since he/she was never Christian to start of with. The god you worship is a fail god and not the God of the Bible. The God of the Bible will finish the work that He Himself started.
Did you even read the 1 John 2 19 fully? I guess you haven't, otherwise you would not ask such question. "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. But they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."
With regard to Acts 15, yes they Believed, but were their beliefs true and sincere? Most likely not, since their words are troubling and not previously commanded by the apostles to the other believers. Why did they do that? They don't cling unto the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ (v11). It is amazing to me, if you are really reading Acts 15 that you do not see that your position is like the Pharisee. You claim baptism are needful to be saved, don't you? Now what is the difference between you and the Pharisee in this passage (v1&5)? Lord have mercy. Interestingly, Acts 15 even proves further that your understanding is not true.
8 And God, who knoweth the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost even as He did unto us,
9 and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.”
14 Simon hath declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out from them a people for His name.
18 Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.
2. That's again your fallacy. Even the first hearing of the Gospel, and later obeying of the Gospel, are possible to be done by sinners only because of the Grace of the Holy Spirit. Your problem is that you think sins are just like a mistake in an examination. It is much worse than that, it brings you falling short before the Glory of God and brings you to think that the Gospel is a stumbing block and/or foolishness. 1 Corinthians 1: 23-24 "but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness, but unto those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God."
3. False. They had been thinking that they were in the Gospel; They had been thinking that they obeyed the truth; They had been thinking that they were in grace. But in fact, all of them were false hopes made by their own thinking, since they were never Christian to start of with. God will never fail. The Bible says there is no ex-Christian, he/she went out from Christianity since he/she was never Christian to start of with. The god you worship is a fail god and not the God of the Bible. The God of the Bible will finish the work that He Himself started.
Did you even read the 1 John 2 19 fully? I guess you haven't, otherwise you would not ask such question. "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. But they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us."
With regard to Acts 15, yes they Believed, but were their beliefs true and sincere? Most likely not, since their words are troubling and not previously commanded by the apostles to the other believers. Why did they do that? They don't cling unto the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ (v11). It is amazing to me, if you are really reading Acts 15 that you do not see that your position is like the Pharisee. You claim baptism are needful to be saved, don't you? Now what is the difference between you and the Pharisee in this passage (v1&5)? Lord have mercy. Interestingly, Acts 15 even proves further that your understanding is not true.
8 And God, who knoweth the hearts, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost even as He did unto us,
9 and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.”
14 Simon hath declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out from them a people for His name.
18 Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.
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