September 30, 2005

• DOES THE BIBLE MAKE SENSE?

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  If believers can doubt their salvation the Bible is full of contradictory impenetrable nonsense. 

  
  

   

  
  

  “He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.” (1 Cor 1:31). How can a believer glory in God if he does not know he is saved?

  
  

   

  
  

  For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again to fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba! Father! (Romans 8:15). Wouldn’t a believer be under slavery again, if they could not cry “Abba”? And can someone cry “Abba”, if they do not know that God saved them?

  
  

   

  
  

  “And this is everlasting life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.” (John 17:3). Can someone have everlasting life and not know Christ?

  
  

   

  
  

  “And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32). Is someone free who thinks they are going to hell?

  
  

   

  
  

  “I am the Good Shepherd, and I know those that are Mine, and I am known by the ones that are Mine.” (John 10:14). This passage says that believers know the Good Shepard. They must know they are sheep, too.

  
  

   

  
  

  “Because it is God who said, “Out of darkness Light shall shine,” who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2 Corinthians 4:6). Can the person of Christ shine into someone’s heart without him or her knowing it? And if Christ’s knowledge is in their heart, could they ever doubt they are saved?

  
  

   

  
  

  “And they shall no more teach each one their neighbor, and each one his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know Me, from the least of them to their great ones.” (Hebrews 8:11). Obviously, counselling for assurance is not needed. Even the least believer know the Lord.

  
  

   

  
  

  “Then being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,” (Romans 5:1). Can someone have peace with God, and worry about damnation?

  
  

   

  
  

  “Much more then, being justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath through Him.” (Romans 5:9). Can someone be saved and call God a liar in this passage? God says all believers are justified and saved from wrath. Anyone who doubts this is saying God lied in this passage.

  
  

   

  
  

  “and not only so, but also glorying in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we now received the reconciliation.” (Romans 5:11). Again, if God says believers have received the atonement, how can they doubt?

  
  

   

  
  

  “But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard my deposit until that Day.” (2 Tim 1:12). Paul had full assurance of salvation. And Peter says that believers have the “like precious faith as the apostles”. Thus anyone without Paul’s assurance is without the apostolic faith, and lost.

  
  

   

  
  

  “And we know that the Son of God has come, and He has given to us an understanding that we may know the true One, and we are in the true One, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and the life everlasting.” (1 John 5:20)

  
  

   

  
  

  “But if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ, this one is not His.” (Romans 8:9). No assurance, you’re lost.

  
  

   

  
  

  “Or do you not yourselves perceive that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are disapproved?” (2 Corinthians 13:5). If someone cannot perceive Christ in them, they are not saved.

  
  

   

  “The Spirit Himself witnesses with our spirit that we are children of God.” (Romans 8:16). No witness, you’re lost.

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