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Lol! Even Paul says to the Galatian believers that they were heirs of God because of Christ...
The context doesn't support the claim that Paul is telling them that they remain legally righteous before God if they go back to the law for justification and only lose Christ in justification in regard to being shown to be righteous. Paul is plainly telling them they will no longer be heirs if they go back to the law for justification. So we know he is talking about losing the imputation of Christ's righteousness if they go back to the law, not just losing the outer witness of them having received the imputation of Christ's righteousness.
and I just don’t know if you really understood Galatians 4 in its entirety it says on
7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
How in a world that being an heir through Christ would turn themselves to the law which Christ had already fulfilled. The attitude and actions of these Judaizers mixed and troubled the Galatian believers and have nothing to do with losing salvation. That put Paul into question why they desire themselves to be in bondage when it was the fact that the effect of the law was already finished by Christ.
7 Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
8Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
How in a world that being an heir through Christ would turn themselves to the law which Christ had already fulfilled. The attitude and actions of these Judaizers mixed and troubled the Galatian believers and have nothing to do with losing salvation. That put Paul into question why they desire themselves to be in bondage when it was the fact that the effect of the law was already finished by Christ.
For 'once saved always saved' to be true you have to explain how a person can no longer be an heir (by seeking justification outside of Christ) but still be an heir.
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