Election and Reprobation (2) / As To Conscientious Objectorship (2)

Election and Assurance Although Dr. Berkouwer repeatedly speaks of the relation between the truth of election and the assurance of salvation, he never properly explains this relation. Always he makes a false distinction between the doctrine of election and accepting the promise of God. The preaching of the promise is a general offer of salvation to all that hear the gospel, but the preaching of election stands alongside of, or even opposed to, to this offer of the general promise of salvation....