One has relevance (this thread), the other - “angels dancing on the head of a pin” - really doesn't in the long run.
Who is saved? How about your pastor? Is he duping you? Is the person sitting next to you in the pew truly saved?
Are you saved? Or is your heart deceiving you?
The Bible says that the heart is “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it?”
>> One has relevance (this thread)
It does? Really?
Please explain answering this question, which I *can’t possibly* answer (and neither can *you*, it’s above our pay grade) change in the tiniest way how I must live as a Christian?
I’m not saying it’s not an interesting theological question, and I’m not saying it’s out of line to ask it.
But yes, I *am* saying it’s as irrelevant to my spiritual behavior and outcome as the angels/pinhead question.
>> The Bible says that the heart is “deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it?”
The Bible *also* includes three epistles of John, the first of which lays out a lot of good background information about your question, if not a black-and-white answer to it.
Read it all, but for the sake of a pithy quotable verse: :-)
“I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.” (5:13)