{"id":936,"date":"2008-12-04T09:52:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T13:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2008-12-04T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T13:52:30","slug":"on-the-assurance-of-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/on-the-assurance-of-salvation","title":{"rendered":"On the Assurance of Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On what basis can we confidently assert that we are truly saved, that is, among the elect? Those of us who hold to a reformed view of sotieriology often hear the question phrased this way: If you believe that God chooses who will be saved, and that nothing man does either contributes or diminishes his salvation, how can anyone then be assured that they are saved?<\/p>\n<p>Fred Sanders at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptoriumdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">ScriptoriumDaily.com<\/a> is posting in segments a paper he delivered on this subject at the Evangelical Theological Society. It&#8217;s worth a read:<\/p>\n<p>Post One: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptoriumdaily.com\/2008\/12\/03\/how-assurance-of-salvation-works\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Assurance of Salvation Works<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Post Two: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptoriumdaily.com\/2008\/12\/04\/assurance-of-election-and-justification\/\" target=\"_blank\">Assurance of Election and Justification<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On what basis can we confidently assert that we are truly saved, that is, among the elect? Those of us who hold to a reformed view of sotieriology often hear the question phrased this way: If you believe that God &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/on-the-assurance-of-salvation\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[330,367,379],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-assurance-of-salvation","tag-election","tag-fred-sanders"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}