This is my final comment to you, brother, until someone tells me you have gotten over your ego and have stopped arguing partial truths and stopped scrambling, misinterpreting, or parsing Scripture.
Having opened on that negative note, I want to tell you, sincerely, I like you, Ken. You have a sense of humor about you that you hide far too much, and I believe you are sincere in what you post. I have hope that you might open your eyes to the truths that you deny, and begin to pull away from the false doctrines you espouse. Others here are too arrogant and angry to overcome their own fallacies, but you are not. You're a good man, Ken. Please read what I say here with an open mind and understand I say them with love, even though they will hurt.
Your comment that I've quoted at the beginning of this post is your ultimate Straw Man. It is the logical fallacy you pull out to convict everyone who won't accept your lost-salvation-active-signs-and-wonders doctrine. This is where you always go in the end, because in the end, this lie is all you have left: "You people deny the power of the Holy Spirit!"
Not only is that a lie, it is hateful. It is borders on arrogance, as though you and those who hold to your doctrine are far superior to anyone else, by having an understanding that they apparently do not have, and further that they, as you accuse, outright deny.
Secondly, you elevate the Holy Spirit above Jesus Christ, and that truly is blasphemy. Your focus is on "the power of the Holy Spirit" without crediting the work of Christ that makes that power apparent to us in our lives, and by faith in Whom that power is expended on our behalf. I'm not sure you realize you do this, I would urge you to think carefully about who you glorify, and why.
The doctrines you defend are fluff and flash, with no substance. You, ISIT, and others have insisted throughout the course of this thread, for example, that the Holy Spirit "empowers" you to do work. I've challenged you repeatedly, all of you, to post Scripture that proves that. You've posted nothing that does so.
You've attempted to redefine passages to make them say that. You've lifted passages out of context and misstated what they say. You've even attempted to use totally unrelated Scripture to prove your point. When all this is pointed out to you, you turn on the opponent challenging you, rather than giving a solid exegetically and lexically supported explanation of why your interpretation is "correct."
Discussing the subject with you is like grasping at the wind. Destroy one of your arguments, you magically appear on the other side of the circle with some other nonsensical, out-of-context, deliberate or unlearned misinterpretation of a completely different passage or doctrine that may or may not be related to the actual point.
You continually make utterly flabbergasting statements, like this one:
Calvin didn't coin that phrase. In fact, being late-medieval German, he wouldn't even have put the words together like that. The reality is that "once saved, always saved" is a 20th century construct and may even have originally been used by critics of Eternal Security as an epithet toward their opponents.
It's major faux pas like this that you constantly appear in your posts that you don't even realize severely undermine whatever credibility you might believe to have acquired. Nonetheless, Ken, I believe you are sincere and mostly honest man. You are blinded by bad teaching and selfishly cling to it despite its obvious fallacies. I love you in Christ. I urge you to examine yourself, please. God bless, but for now, I'm done.