It seems we have arrived at an important point in that Jesus didn't defend himself.
This is so true.
What is also very true is one tends to read in ones own understanding to peoples words. Jason seems to believe OSAS causes people to sin, and if they did not have the security of OSAS they would be good deciples.
Now to quote a suicide because some nut uses OSAS as his verbal excuse does not understand hurt and suicidal tendencies.
Now I know mental illness, I have spoken to people wrapped up in it, seen people be destroyed trying to minister to people with it, and it has nothing to do with anything like doctrine or belief.
It is also naive to think obedience to the Lord is anything to do with law keeping. This is pure legalism.
My best analogy is meeting my daughter after school. I run up to her, swing her around because the book I read says I have to do it for 30 seconds or I am sinning, failing as a parent. No I do it because it is my expression of joy and love towards this young person. (I am not allowed to do this to her at 16, I am usually disowned as unworthy now, lol)
Now so many christians are emotionally naive, when Jesus is flooding the world with "I love you" unto death, in the hardest place, anyone whose heart stays cold has never met Him. So all these disputes always show something unexpected.
I always wait until the chips are really down before drawing conclusions.
OSAS is a way of expressing the overwhelming love shown to needy insecure people, and in the eternal perspective of the kingdom, it is 100% true, but we will never really know, just the shadow. What I would always look to is David and Bathesheba, murder, adultery and forgiveness.