[Dr. Eckleburg]

If God has graced you with faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior who is "the propitiation of your sins," then rejoice. Your sins have already been forgiven by His redemption of you on the cross.

Thus be confident that with the Scriptures as your guide, the Holy Spirit will lead you in righteous living and correct worship of Him alone.

"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)" -- Ephesians 2:5

"These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God." -- 1 John 5:13

Do you not read assurance and certainty in these verses? Read the Bible more. It's all there.

And it's important to ask yourself why a religious institution would not tell you of this. What's to be gained by keeping the accomplished salvation of Christ uncertain, impermanent? The answer may be that the institution then controls you by being the one who doles out God's grace as it sees fit.

As if that were even possible.

"But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

"For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together...

Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" -- Romans 8:11-17;34-35

[Ping-Pong]

If God has graced you with faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior who is "the propitiation of your sins," then rejoice. Your sins have already been forgiven by His redemption of you on the cross.....Thus be confident that with the Scriptures as your guide, the Holy Spirit will lead you in righteous living and correct worship of Him alone.

But of course I have faith in Jesus as my Lord and I know my sins are forgiven upon repentance. I study the scriptures and they do guide me. Did you think otherwise? Who else do you believe I worship, other than "Him alone"?

Do you not read assurance and certainty in these verses? Read the Bible more. It's all there.

Why are you telling me this? What have I said that makes you feel the need to ask?

And it's important to ask yourself why a religious institution would not tell you of this. What's to be gained by keeping the accomplished salvation of Christ uncertain, impermanent? The answer may be that the institution then controls you by being the one who doles out God's grace as it sees fit.

Have I kept the "accomplished salvation of Christ uncertain"?

Again, thank you for the scripture but I don't understand how it is applicable to what I have said.