For All Those Doubters

Posted: August 23, 2012 | Author: Michael M. Dewalt | Filed under: Just for Fun | Tags: assurance, dutch, hyper calvinist, Luther, protestant reformed, Salvation |Leave a comment

“For Luther, as for the reformers in general, one could rest assured of one’s salvation. Salvation was grounded upon the faithfulness of God to his promises of mercy; to fail to have confidence in salvation was, in effect, to doubt the reliability and trustworthiness of God.”

***Quote taken from Alistair McGrath, Christian Theology, p. 391

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Michael M. Dewalt

Michael Dewalt serves as a humanities teacher at Cair Paravel Latin School and Adjunct Professor at Faith Theological Seminary and Lancaster Bible College. His undergrad studies are from Word of Life Bible Institute and Clarks Summit University, and his graduate studies from Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and Faith Theological Seminary. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society and the American Society of Church History and winner of the Zwingli Prize Award at the Calvin500 Conference & Tour in 2009. Michael blogs here at Gospel-Centered Musings, has written numerous articles for Logo’s Calvin500, Place for Truth a voice of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, and Heritage Book Talk and is published in the Puritan Theological Journal. He and his wife Emily have been blessed with one son, Wyatt Cash.

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