RCW wrote:
If you don't know you are chosen, how do you know you are God's slave? Maybe you are deluding yourself. You have no assurance of salvation at all, because if God didn't pick you, all your faith is in vain. or are you saying that everyone who has faith has already been picked. What about those who had faith at one point but now don't? Did God give that faith and then take it away?
Because the scripures alone give us assurances in the promises of Christ. Based on the active obediance of Christ alone. Those who walk away or apostacy from the faith where never converted by God in the first place. your asking god questions that can be answered by a good study on the nature of conversion. and who does the saving God or man. 1John 5:1-5 gives us the assurance that we are favor with God and have eternal life. We do know that God chooses undeserving sinners, who they are that is locked up un the seecret things of God not to be revieled but we personally can know our own assurense of election and salvation. That is why we proclaiom the message of Christ because it is though the means of the preached word that men are saves James 1:18 Romans 10:17