This whole business of believing is really a very curious thing, because people do not get much help by trying to believe. Believing does not come by trying. If someone were to make a statement about something that happened today, I would not tell him that I would try to believe him. If I believed in the integrity of the person who told me about the incident and said that he saw it, I would accept the statement immediately. If I did not think they were an honest person, I would, of course, not believe them. But there would be no trying to believe. Now, when God declares that there is salvation
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I believe that Christ saves sinners, even someone like Paul who tried to snuff out the early church, or Peter who denied Jesus with a curse in his most desperate moments. But what warrant do i have in believing that I'm redeemed? Especially when God's irrevocable word puts people like me in the warnings rather than the promises?
