I have been talking with my old college pastor and he is non-reformed.. He has been asking me many questions about reformed theology here in the last few weeks because most of his students have started looking into what it means to be reformed and he does not understand why.. He sees it as a mis-understanding of the text and that because so many will agree with TULIP before doing their own in depth interpretations, (true interp in which one digs and picks at the text to understand original meaning) and because they have decided that Reformed theology is true before all this, the text will always speak to this and it naturally becomes true because they want it to be true....

Anyway, I have tried my best to answer him and he seems content for the moment but there is one question that he has asked that I can not seem to find a good acceptable answer to. and its this..

Those that are elect and saved, how can they be sure? Mankind has "moral direction" if you will.. You know that because even a non believer will feel pain from a cheating wife/husband or a murder of a family member.. So what keeps them from looking for something more? I see Mormans and other religious groups everyday.. Apparently they are looking for something.. Yet we know that their beliefs are false..

Is there any way to be sure of salvation? I believe that the Bible is truth and that God created all things, but these things are marks of many religious people..

This is one of the big arguments that my college pastor brings up against reformed theology and not one person he has asked has been able to give a good acceptable answer. I can not find one nor think of one.