God has provided the admonissions and exhortations to keep us walking in the light-God.
Many will fall away from the truth before their lives end, because they refuse to heed them.
You lost me there.
I hope you realize that both those scriptures were from the time before Christ was killed, buried, and raised from the dead.
Since then, the "flesh" can be destroyed, and we can now walk in the Spirit !
Jesus was talking to OT Jews, not NT Christians
I still have a long time until I am raised from the dead, either to eternal life or eternal destruction.
If my name is in the book of life on the day of judgement, I will then say "I am saved".
Until then, I am just a convert.
Again your response is just an idea that can fit your reasoning, but it's mainly self reasoning.
And again your self reasoning resonates very well with all the excuses as to why eternal security is seen as lie, and why people are all seen as liars and sinners who believe in eternal security.
Your reasoning also resonates well with people who actually hate children of God, they have excuse after excuse to, and deflection and distortion of the truth mastered.
Because that's the way these people go, which is they master the art of self glorification and give glory to God for it, with there must be right ideas.
To suggest that human frailty is less frail before the cross isn accurate, and I see your reasoning, but how do you fit your reasoning into well ok if that's case, then everyone Jesus spoke to before the cross where not saved to, so that would excuse the 12 disciples, and the reasoning is because Jesus hasn't Gone to the cross yet. out of the 12 which included doubting Thomas, there only seems to be one that may not have been saved. Being told when I go I will prepare a place for you, has to believed.
Your making just another self reasoning idea, that's all, and all your doing with it, is leaning on it,
Which is another thing self glorifies do, and somehow they believe there glorifying God by leaning on an idea, whilst disregarding 100s of facts,
And with your ideas your also denying instructions in his word to not lean on your understanding.
I suggest you stop pushing your luck, and stop leaving provocative statements, because the only way human frailty can be sin free is to be free of condemnation each day by being grounded in the word. Those who are in Christ are free from condemnation, by the renewing of your mind
Playing games like this is provoking responses but I sense you know that.
Mind you, you could be saved and still speak like this, as it could be human frailty that wants to self destruct reject and after being close to purity, as in the indwelling of the spirit as in the seed the light and the word living in the heart, which is causing the flesh as in the human nature as in frailty to reject because of feeling inadequate, leading to denial.
Because human frailty can feal hard done by so easily. Because it can quite easily believe stuff isn't it's fault.
But the fallen human nature condition is now a condition called fragility, frailty, where it need the spirit that is willing. That's our saviour Jesus who doesn't lose his sheep.