I always hoped this was a true story, as it would put me and my uncertainty in good company.
Even with Jesus' promise, I probably should head back to Arizona and get re-acclimated to the heat...just in case those Puritans are right.
I am in AZ now, and I suspect even the summer heat is nothing like that other place. Still, I don't know why you keep implying that you are lost. The Scriptures don't place a condition that you recognize divine determinism on your rescue
But, you certainly are in good company with CS Lewis. He was a stalwart "free will" fellow. As much as I enjoy his writing, I believe the Scriptures argue against his view of this matter.
"I always hoped this was a true story, as it would put me and my uncertainty in good company.
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Regardless of what dear Lewis thought, Jesus and the Apostle John had much to say about knowing.
John 10:27-30
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. “I and the Father are one.”Jesus ties the assurance of the eternal security of the believer to the omnipotence of the Father and to His own deity.
I John 5:11-13
"And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life."If you have the Son of God, you have eternal life. John wrote this so that you may KNOW that you have eternal life.
The only question is, do you have the Son???