I said this:
"Paul specifically described several gifts (not promises of gifts) of God before he wrote 11:29."
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23
See? There is no mention of a promise here. Just the fact that eternal life is a gift of God.
Eternal life being a gift of God, does not nullify or overrule that fact that the wages of sin is death.
I don't believe anyone has argued that.
I believe everyone knows eternal life can not be earned, but is a gift from God.
Again, no one has argued that.
What is just as true, is the wages of sin is death.
Are you trying to suggest or teach that sin revokes the gift of eternal life???
We are given this gift, based on a condition, not based on earning eternal life, but based on a condition.
OK. So, please share with us the condition for HAVING eternal life.
Your whole "theory" seems to be built from the idea, that because God has graciously granted to us the opportunity to receive the gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus, that there is somehow no condition involved to receive eternal life, or to remain in Christ Jesus.
JLB
The first part of your sentence shows the error of LOS doctrine: there is nothing about any "opportunity to receive the gift of eternal life". Eternal life itself IS the gift that is irrevocable.
Again, please show ANY verse that speaks of ANY gift of God that is revocable, since your claim is that the gift of eternal life IS revocable. I don't believe ANY gift of God is revocable. But I will accept Scripture that actually teaches which gift or gifts of God ARE revocable.
And the second part of your sentence makes no sense. There IS a condition for receiving eternal life: believing in Jesus Christ as Savior. That is the ONLY condition.
Here are verses that prove my claim:
Salvation:
Mark 16:16 " He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
Luke 8:12 "Those beside the road are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved.
Acts 4:12 "And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved."
Acts 11:14 and he will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.'
Acts 16:31They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household."
Rom 10:9, 10
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; 10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
2 Tim 3:15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 1:5 who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Peter 1:9 obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls.
2 Thess 2:13 But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.
Eternal Life:
John 3:15-16
15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. 16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
John 3:36 "He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him."
John 5:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
John 6:40 "For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day."
John 6:47 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord
1 Tim 1:16 Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.
Gal 3:22 But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
1 John 5:13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
What other conditions would one see in all these verses on how to have salvation/eternal life?