{"id":66,"date":"2024-11-23T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/23\/assurance-of-salvation\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T15:52:00","slug":"assurance-of-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/23\/assurance-of-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"Assurance of Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Protestant Notion of the Assurance of Salvation is Unbiblical<\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>To a Protestant in the Reformed tradition, these words of Paul can be nothing but a theoretical impossibility.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/kjv\/1co\/9\/27\/s_1071027\" target=\"_blank\">1 Cor 9:27<\/a> But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote style=\"border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/kjv\/2co\/13\/5\/s_1091005\" target=\"_blank\">2 Cor 13:5<\/a> Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This ascetic struggle is what the Church calls its members to perform.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">So how can we have an assurance of salvation?<\/h2>\n<blockquote style=\"border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/kjv\/jhn\/14\/15\/s_1011015\" target=\"_blank\">John 14:15<\/a> If ye love me, keep my commandments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/kjv\/jhn\/14\/15\/s_1011023\" target=\"_blank\">John 14:23<\/a> Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dougstheology.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John 15:10<\/a> If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father&#8217;s commandments, and abide in his love.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protestant Notion of the Assurance of Salvation is Unbiblical To a Protestant in the Reformed tradition, these words of Paul can be nothing but a theoretical impossibility. 1 Cor 9:27 But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-eoc","category-reformed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}