Assurance and good works (3)
Cammenga defends the Reformed doctrine of limited atonement and unconditional election against Arminian objections, arguing that these doctrines actually provide believers with assurance of salvation rather than undermining it. The article contends that faith in Christ's particular atonement for the elect grounds the Christian's confidence in personal salvation and demonstrates why Arminianism fails to provide genuine assurance.
Previous article in this series: January 15, 2021, p. 182. Stooping to our weakness "Calvinist believers who struggle with their assurance can never know with certainty that they are one of the elect." So writes Jerry L. Walls in Why I Am Not a Calvinist.1 The charge is as old as Arminianism. It was an objection voiced by the Arminians (Remonstrants) prior to the Synod of Dordt. In reality, the opposite is true. It is the teaching of Arminianism that strips believers of comfort. This heresy...
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