Reformed Question

[Winman]

How do you know that these people were not elect? If believers do not persevere, as you say in another thread, isn't it possible that these fasle teachers were in fact Christians, but were bringing upon themselves an early death (not spiritual death) by their apostacy?

Damnation speaks of eternal spiritual death, not simply dying. It speaks of going to hell. And they were not believers, that is clear in the verse, because they denied the Lord.

Jesus died for ALL men, even those who do not believe in Him, and those who deny him.