If you claim you repented of your sins and then go out and murder and fail to repent, then you never repented of them in the first place or you wouldn’t have gone out and murdered.
-— If you claim you repented of your sins and then go out and murder and fail to repent, then you never repented of them in the first place or you wouldn’t have gone out and murdered. -—
So when I announced that I had accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior and had repented of my sins, I would have been mistaken about my eternal security?
How can this be reconciled with the doctrine of “eternal assurance of salvation” that some Bible-believing Protestants believe?