JM
Puritan Board Doctor
I found Piper a little confusing: So the agonizing question for some is: do I really have saving faith? Is my faith real? Am I self-deceived? Some well-intentioned people try to lessen the problem by making faith a mere decision to affirm certain truths, like the truth: Jesus is God, and he died for my sins. Some also try to assist assurance by denying that any kind of life-change is really necessary to demonstrate the reality of faith. So they find a way to make James 2:17 mean something other than what is seems to mean: "Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead." But these strategies to help assurance backfire. They deny some Scripture; and even the minimal faith they preserve can be agonized over and doubted by the tormented soul. They don't solve the problem, and they lose truth. And, perhaps worst of all, they sometimes give assurance to people who should not have it.
The Agonizing Problem of the Assurance of Salvation :: Desiring God Christian Resource Library
Is Piper saying that we can't know or have assurance of salvation?
The Agonizing Problem of the Assurance of Salvation :: Desiring God Christian Resource Library
Is Piper saying that we can't know or have assurance of salvation?
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