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.
As Moses had lifted up the bronze serpent in the desert, so God’s Son would be lifted up on the cross of Calvary. Therefore, as God’s appointed Savior for sin-stricken humanity, anyone could look to Him in faith and, like the Israelites of old, find life instantaneously. A single look with eternal life the result. What could be plainer? But obviously, here too there is no thought of looking and looking and looking. Just as the single drink of living water was an effective appropriation, so too is the single look of faith. . . . For at the precise instant when a man or woman believes in Christ, at that moment, eternity itself invades human experience and transforms our inner beings into something wonderfully and permanently new.
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