{"id":1882,"date":"2021-03-05T03:12:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T03:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2024-05-07T21:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T21:13:33","slug":"can-and-ought-a-christian-be-certain-of-his-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/2021\/03\/05\/can-and-ought-a-christian-be-certain-of-his-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"Can and Ought a Christian be Certain of his Salvation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">by Ulrik V. Koren<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Can-and-Ought-a-Christian-be-Certain-of-His-Salvation-by-U.-V.-Koren.pdf\">Can-and-Ought-a-Christian-be-Certain-of-His-Salvation-by-U.-V.-Koren<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Can-and-Ought-a-Christian-be-Certain-of-His-Salvation-by-U.-V.-Koren.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTE: LSQ stands for Lutheran Synod Quarterly, where this essay was published.&nbsp; Koren was a leading theologian of the old Norwegian Synod, which was in fellowship (for a while) with the Missouri Synod in the 19th century.&nbsp; Today, among many Evangelicals, the Calvinist doctrine of the perseverence of the saints (the P in TULIP), is popular. Lutherans reject the &#8220;once saved, always saved&#8221; teaching, while at the same time we teach that a Christian can and should be certain of his salvation.&nbsp; Koren&#8217;s paper speaks to the issues of our day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ulrik V. Koren NOTE: LSQ stands for Lutheran Synod Quarterly, where this essay was published.&nbsp; Koren was a leading theologian of the old Norwegian Synod, which was in fellowship (for a while) with the Missouri Synod in the 19th century.&nbsp; Today, among many Evangelicals, the Calvinist doctrine of the perseverence of the saints&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/2021\/03\/05\/can-and-ought-a-christian-be-certain-of-his-salvation\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[417,418],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers","tag-koren","tag-ulrik-v-koren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christforus.org\/NewSite\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}