The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Assurance of Salvation

speratus:

My response was to the question, "What should be the appropriate "reply" for refutation?"

If I were in that particular conversation, rather than be drawn into a debate over hypothetical cases of who is saved and who is not, I would approach it from the basis of the finished work of Christ. Others would do it differently.

I was not suggesting that there was no place in the life of believers for self examination. We are called to work out our salvation in fear and trembling. However, the foundation for assurance is in Christ and not our performance and until that is established, looking at ourselves and others is fruitless.