Confessional Certainty

Assurance is certainty of personal salvation. As the loving Father of His human family in Jesus Christ, God wills that all His children have assurance. It is not His will that only a very few of His children, His "best and dearest friends," as the Puritans and their followers today call these favored few, ever attain to certainty of salvation. The previous editorial demonstrated from Scripture that God wills all His children to have and enjoy assurance. Certainty in Q. 1 of the Catechism...