NOTHING = NOT ONE THING
IF we believe NOT, he ABIDES FAITHFUL because HE CANNOT DENY HIMSELF <---THIS is SPOKEN and directed at BELIEVERS and falls under the banner of
NOTHING (NOT ONE THING) can separate us from the LOVE of CHRIST and HE WILL FINISH what HE STARTED!
SEE...the problem is simple....you cannot honestly address the word NOTHING as applied above....why....because it destroys and negates your ideology......end of story!
Well there is ample evidence of falling away. And ample evidence these were Christian believers at one point in time.
[SUP]2 Thess 2v3,7[/SUP]
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Let no one deceive you by any means; for
that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin[SUP][
b][/SUP] is revealed, the son of perdition,
[SUP]7 [/SUP]For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He[SUP][
d][/SUP] who now restrains
will do so until He[SUP][
e][/SUP] is taken out of the way.
[SUP]2 Peter 2[/SUP]
[SUP]20 [/SUP]For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. [SUP]21 [/SUP]For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known
it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. [SUP]22 [/SUP]But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,”[SUP][
e][/SUP] and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”
Hebrews 6
[SUP]4 [/SUP]For
it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, [SUP]5 [/SUP]and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, [SUP]6 [/SUP]if they fall away,[SUP][
b][/SUP] to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put
Him to an open shame.
Hebrews 10
[SUP]26 [/SUP]For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, [SUP]27 [/SUP]but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. [SUP]28 [/SUP]Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on
the testimony of two or three witnesses. [SUP]29 [/SUP]Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? [SUP]30 [/SUP]For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,”[SUP][
e][/SUP] says the Lord.[SUP][
f][/SUP] And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”[SUP][
g][/SUP] [SUP]31 [/SUP]It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.