James 1:15 — desire conceived becomes sin; sin full-grown brings death. The passage primarily warns against blaming God for temptation and shows sin's natural progression.

Mike first frames the context: James 1:13-15 argues against attributing one's temptations to God (an error he connects to progressive Christian identity claims like "God made me this way"). The progression is: desire → conceiving (desire joins with the will in a decision to yield) → sin → death. "Death" is intentionally ambiguous: it may refer to eternal separation from God (applicable to the unsaved reading this as a warning), or it may refer to sin killing particular things in one's life (marriage, reputation, etc.). He does not think the passage settles the once-saved-always-saved debate and cautions against reading one's existing theological grid into it. He recommends establishing OSAS beliefs from clearer passages and applying that grid here.