Hello Saxon

You are making the verses enemies instead of friends.

Can you not see that is a case of "both..., and" instead of "either/ or"? If one does not accept that both the "Calvinist verses" and the "Free Will Baptist verses" are true, and come from the same Author, we neglect to use the whole council of God. Otherwise we wind up by implication that God is schizophrenic and unreliable because He cannot make His thoughts clear, nor can He keep His Covenental promises. Instead it is us, not Him who is unreliable because we are creatures with limited understanding.

No, that is not a nasty accusation, but it is a plea to be more temperate.
Can something be wet and dry at the same time? Can something be right and wrong at the same time? Either OSAS is true or OSAS is false. It has to be one or the other. Whoever is making a false statement using the word of God for support does not understand what is being said in the scriptures that are being used for support. It is either the “Calvinists” or the “Free Will Baptists” that are miss-using the scriptures. The Bible cannot and will not and does not contradict itself in any way. We cannot have OSAS both right and wrong and say that is what the Bible teaches.

I will agree with you when you say that it is us and not him that are not getting it right. God is not and never will be schizophrenic and unreliable. All scripture is “friendly”. We do not have the capability to change that. What we need to do is understand what God is telling us. In this case we are looking at OSAS and you appear to be saying that it is true and you can lose your salvation is true. To me, this is not possible seeing that it is diametrically opposed to each other.

You have said nothing nasty.