Do Not Throw Away Your Confidence

Hebrews 10:32-36 has a very relevant exhortation for our
postmodern times:

But remember the former days, when,
after being enlightened ["after receiving the knowledge of the truth"
(v. 26)], you endured a great conflict of sufferings, partly by being made a
public spectacle through reproaches and tribulations, and partly by becoming
sharers with those who were so treated. For you showed sympathy to the
prisoners and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property, knowing that you
have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one. Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.
For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you
may receive what was promised.

This confidence in the supremacy of the person of Christ and His reconciling sacrifice for our sins in objective history (the focus of
the beginning of Chapter
10)—the kind of confidence and “knowing” that brings the reward of
endurance through reproaches and tribulations…can this thrive in a
person who thinks religious beliefs are merely subjective preferences?