Theology
The Basis of Assurance: His Promise, Not Our Perseverance
The believer’s security depends on Christ’s promise, not the believer’s ongoing consistency.
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The believer’s security depends on Christ’s promise, not the believer’s ongoing consistency.
The false dilemma—often termed the bifurcation fallacy or the either/or fallacy—occurs when an argument presents two mutually exclusive options while deliberately or naively ignoring viable alternatives. In theological debate, this error reduces rich biblical tension to an unyielding, artificial choice: either a professing believer lives in sustained, visible victory, or they were never truly born again at all.
When theology slips into logical fallacy, the purity of the gospel is always the first casualty. Among the most pervasive errors threatening grace today is the non sequitur—drawing a conclusion that simply does not follow from the premises. In this post, we examine how confusing discipleship with salvation commits this logical blunder, why true saving faith cannot be redefined as lifelong surrender, and how restoring proper biblical categories frees the believer to run for eternal rewards without fearing the loss of eternal life.
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