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Westminster Theological Journal Volume 54

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, 1992
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Westminster Theological Journal, Volume 54.

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“By ‘Christian assurance,’ I refer to a Christian believer’s confidence that he or she is already in a right standing with God, and that this will issue in ultimate salvation.” (Pages 1–2)

“In short, genuine faith is tied to perseverance; transitory faith is spurious.” (Page 17)

“It is important to insist that the view of perseverance and assurance outlined in this paper does not make perseverance the basis of assurance—as if to say that no one is entitled to any form of assurance until ultimate perseverance has been demonstrated. I have not argued that perseverance is the basis for assurance; rather, I have argued that failure to persevere serves to undermine assurance. The basis of assurance is Christ and his work and its entailments.” (Page 29)

“Compatibilism is the view that the following two statements are, despite superficial evidence to the contrary, mutually compatible: (1) God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty does not in any way mitigate human responsibility; (2) human beings are responsible creatures (i.e., they choose, decide, obey, disobey, believe, rebel, and so forth), but their responsibility never serves to make God absolutely contingent.” (Page 22)

“It must be strenuously insisted that attempts to reduce the shock and power of severe warnings like those in Heb 6:4–6 and 2 Cor 13:5, by arguing that the warnings are merely hypothetical, or that the turning aside of those described in Heb 6:4–6 and 1 John 2:19 is from useful service but not from salvation, are desperate expedients that responsible exegesis will happily avoid.” (Page 14)

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