Shortly after moving from Philadelphia to Lancaster, I met a man who appeared to be Amish with the exception of his old Volkswagen. Confused, I asked some questions. He told me that he was no longer ...

We don’t need to know about every person’s eternal destiny. We simply can’t know that. Even early Protestant leader John Calvin held that no one could know for sure if someone else was in the elect or ...

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I was raised to believe that there is no more important issue than the answer to this question: “On a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 meaning ‘100% confident’ and 0 meaning ‘0% confident’, how sure are ...

How can we be sure that we are saved? A Calvinist and Lutheran answer. Anxious about whether he was really saved, North Carolina pastor J. D. Greear kept asking Jesus into his heart—it must have been ...

Protestants often reference 1 John 5:13, These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life. This is a verse that they claim as ...

"What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us?" Romans 8:31 I remember when I was shopping for car insurance, there was always was someone trying to convince they ...

Eternal security (or, what is called perseverance of the saints in Calvinism) is the Protestant notion that, once having attained salvation, a Christian can never possibly lose it, no matter what they ...