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Originally Posted by AV1611  I know that I believe in Christ but I am not assured that my faith is saving faith. Prior to my "conversion experience" I was not in tears over my sin, so I am led to question the reality of that "conversion experience" though I have since then mourned my sin, but then was that a legal mourning over fear from hell or an evangelical mourning our hatred of sin and anger at it knowing that it displeases God? (Rhetorical question for if I am not sure then you will not know). |
This is a prime example of why one should never have faith in their faith as a condition for assurance. Also it is not always the case that one is broken to tears prior to conversion. I personally do not cry(shed literal tears) much about anything, therefore this cannot be a barometer of what I feel in my heart.
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N. Robert; Trinity Reformed Church RCA, Holland MI
Once in a while you can get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right."
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