If you think that God is going to do the trusting and believing for you while you sit back on your butt doing nothing you will be outside the gates of the city of God. The warnings are there, not for kicks and grins, but because you have a nature that can forsake the Lord, your redeemer.
Speaking of nonsense...
I understand that you have been cornered (you made a statement that was not logical, you cannot defend that logic). We’ve all be there at times. I will, however, caution you not to simply strike out (although this is the typical response, we’ve all done this at some point as well). You , not I, are the one who stated that there is an "enduring faith" that in fact does not endure. And yes, that is nonsense.
People can choose a faith and walk away from that faith, I agree:
You are right that there are some people who hold a Christian faith that they can abandon at any given moment. What holds them in “God’s hand” is their decision to believe. I am saying that these people are not in God’s hand, they do not believe in terms of what Scripture calls a “faith that endures”.
I believe some theological positions out of choice (I’ve weighed the evidence and decided they were true….and they have changed over time). I believe a sports team the best. I follow authors, poets, actors, etc. along the same lines...choice.
And people choose religious beliefs. They choose to believe Scientology, Christianity, Mormonism, etc. And they remain in those faiths by their own choice. They can walk away anytime they decide. I agree with you.
BUT there is another type of believe. There is a faith that endures.
I chose my spouse. I did not choose to believe that we were married. I did not choose to believe I was born, that my parents were my parents, that I belonged to my family. I did not choose to believe fire is hot, ice is cold, and the reality of gravity. These things have been revealed by experience to be true. I cannot choose to disbelieve them.
And, while I did choose repentance and belief (I believe by the drawing of the Spirit), I did not choose to believe what was revealed to me as truth. This type of belief simply does not work that way.
The Warning and Your Idea of Belief
You illustrate a tragic truth. Some people believe in Christ with a faith that they can walk away from at any given time. They believe with all of their minds, and maybe with all of their will, but not with all of their heart and being. The truth of the gospel has not been revealed to them, and they do not have a faith that endures. It may last until they die, but it does not endure until the end because it is lost in the refining. Jesus does not know them. They are there by choice and they can walk away.
But there are some people who, having believed, possess a faith that will endure. The gospel has been revealed to them as true. They have been “converted”, not outwardly but spiritually in a way that they cannot…even if it was their desire (an oxymoron)…deny the truth of it. These are “born again”.
My heart breaks for those who are truly lost, who remain in the faith out of their own choice and desire, but who will hear, on that day, those horrible words “I never knew you”. I am not talking about those, like you, who hold a confused doctrine but those who truly remain what they see as “in Christ” by the power of their own choice. These live their lives dedicated to the religion of Christ, but never know Him out of the hardness of their own hearts. They will not believe with an enduring faith because they will not humble themselves, they will not surrender, they will not give up their choice to disbelieve by turning to the One who will reveal to them the Truth that can’t be denied or proven false.