Quote Originally Posted by Sir View Post
The sad part is I think you are serious.

The verse speaks to those who ARE believers. If you're telling us that those who have been enlightened, tasted of the Heavenly gift, have shared in the Holy Spirit, and tasted the goodness of the Word of God are all NON-BELIEVERS in Jesus, then your eisegesis of the Bible is more flawed than I thought!

"It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, who have tasted of the goodness of the Word of God and the powers of the coming age, if they fall away, to be brought back to repentance...."

It sure seems clear to all of us LDS that someone who is a believer CAN fall away, at least according to the Bible. But you are forced to read your own interpretation into it in order for it to make sense to the OSAS theology.
Just where in all that does it say such people ever believed? IHS jim