YoungLearner
Puritan Board Freshman
This question has been giving me trouble, so I would like some help. Perhaps I should already know these things but I am very young spiritually and am without any other persons who share my beliefs.
I know many people who go to church and claim to be Christians. They talk about God and Christ a lot, and can tell you how easy it is to accept Christ as your personal Saviour and all that. They have full assurance that they are going to Heaven. Yet...they make light of sin. It is nothing to them to take the name of God in vain, and to commit other sins.
What bothers me so much is this: if they are totally convinced that they are Christians, what if I too am mistaken? What if I am in no better standing before God than they are, and have deceived myself like Simon Magus did in Acts?
I know many people who go to church and claim to be Christians. They talk about God and Christ a lot, and can tell you how easy it is to accept Christ as your personal Saviour and all that. They have full assurance that they are going to Heaven. Yet...they make light of sin. It is nothing to them to take the name of God in vain, and to commit other sins.
What bothers me so much is this: if they are totally convinced that they are Christians, what if I too am mistaken? What if I am in no better standing before God than they are, and have deceived myself like Simon Magus did in Acts?