And that is the point. After watching the videos, checking out the Scripture, I still see both sides.
But then you said this.
In light of all we read, all we have seen, where is the confidence or settled conviction come from?
Peter
By the careful study of grammar, morphology, and syntax, together with engagement in the LXX, as I have previously emphasized to you @PeterC, which is not devotional in nature but rigorously hermeneutical and exegetical. It involves the precise parsing of the sacred text of Scripture, attending closely to its linguistic form, and affirming what is actually written rather than what is merely assumed.
I can give you many Scriptures re the co-witnessing of the Holy Spirit and KNOW you have eternal life, and always, always, read the context brother.
Shalom.
J.