As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Read the series.
There are a number of good books dealing with doubt that I would recommend. More modern authors like Os Guinness, Gary Habermas and J. P. Moreland have made solid contributions to this subject. Of the Puritan authors, we find quite a few addressing assurance, but not so many dealing with doubt.
Many American Christians have questions about something called “the rapture.” These questions are often tied to a particular flavor of premillennialism called “dispensationalism.” According to this framework, “the rapture” means “the idea that Christ will remove the church from the world prior to the great tribulation.”1 They believe the rapture is before the Great Tribulation, so it is “pre-tribulational.” This teaching relies heavily on 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, along with other supporting passages.
“If we understand who God is, and catch a glimpse of His majesty, purity and holiness, then we are instantly aware of the extent of our own corruption. When that happens, we fly to grace.” - R.C. Sproul
“…as Christians, we sometimes underestimate the change in status that took place when we were united to Christ and adopted into God’s family. We speak of ourselves as though nothing had changed in our relationship, and as if God still viewed our efforts to please him as offensive. But this is false, as we’ll see from Scripture.” - TGC
“Social media buzzed with reaction when Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary theology professor Matthew Barrett announced his departure from the SBC to become an Anglican. He cited the ‘beauty of Anglicanism’ and claimed its practices better align with ‘how Christians have worshipped across history.’” - Baptist Press
“the Bethesda Pool is described as having five porticoes—a puzzling feature suggesting an unusual five-sided pool, which most scholars dismissed as an unhistorical literary creation.
“…many of the ancient stories began with gods giving birth, and then fighting, and killing one another. In contrast, the story of the Bible tells of no other gods except the God who single-handidly created everything. Ancient stories describe great battles that lead to the creation of the world. In the Bible God merely speaks.” - P&D
“…for Lambert, homosexuality is acceptable for orthodox Christians to support and accept into their churches since Christianity’s most basic creedal formulations nowhere mention the sexual practice.” - Christ Over All
“To some extent, this controversy and consequent overture may seem a bit too ‘inside baseball’ to warrant outside attention. However, the questions raised by this committee, and by proponents of Christian Nationalism more generally, are related to a broader ongoing conversation within intellectual Protestantism about retrieval of historic Reformed thought” - Providence
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