Ok, so you acknowledge that in the case that you're wrong about your own status, which you could well be since none can predict their own perseverance for one thing, then you'd still be impressed with God's wisdom and sovereignty. Good.
First, you ether skipped over the end of my response or you
do not believe what the Bible
PROMISES to those who are
actually "
indwelt". The Bible
PROMISES we (real) saints will
absolutely be able to know we are "
indwelt" as the result of
our "
adoption". So your comment about "none can predict"
has
NO Biblical support whatsoever... it is only a reflection
of your "feelings" and not what the Gospel
PROMISES.
Secondly, yes, I can only be impressed on God's Wisdom
and mercy and Sovereignty since NONE of us deserve to have
Christ
PAY for our sins (which required real SUFFERING, much
more then just the pain of a physical death, as He was
PAYING
for an eternal death). That's an important reality few understand.
That part has nothing to do with synergism vs monergism; those are simply two different understandings of how God saves and a believer with either view could be sincerely confident about their salvation-and be sincerely wrong.
You could not be more wrong about being saved, and knowing
the "
indwelling" spirit, has nothing to do with synergism or
monergism. There can only be
ONE TRUE Gospel of salvation,
it cannot be
BOTH synegism and monergism. They are NOT just
two different "understandings", they are two (very) different and
contradictory
GOSPELS... only one can be the Gospel of the Bible,
the other
MUST be a heresy from Satan.
This is a reality that many cannot bring themselves to accept but
it is not my "opinion" the Bible
PROMISES those preaching false "gospels" are "
accursed" and
NO heretic (teacher of false "gospels")
can ever enter into the Kingdom. This is the
MOST important issue
in Christianity... the
BROAD WAY that leads many "Christians" into destruction or the
narrow way that leads them into eternal life...
that
FEW "Christians" find.
And the fact that synergists are "sincere" is of no consequence
whatsoever. Those in Matthew 7:21-23 and Matthew 25:10-13
and Luke 13:24-30 all "sincerely" thought they were following
Jesus (they called Him "
Lord") and they "sincerely" thought they
were saved. Sincerity mans
NOTHING when you are sincerely
under a "
strong delusion".
Please remember, Jesus
PROMISED the church consists of MANY
unsaved "
tares" sown by Satan - and destined to the same fire
prepared for Satan, and relatively FEW saved "
wheat" sown by
God and destined to eternal life. The fact that many/most of
the unsaved "
tares" are
SINCERE means absolutely nothing.
In fact, it is PART of the Gospel of the Bible. It's expected.
More than that, Jesus
PROMISED we could tell the difference
between the saved "
wheat" and unsaved "
tares" by their "
fruit".
While this relates to their behavior, it also (and primarily) relates
to their doctrines ("gospel"). There are plenty of Moslems and
Buddists and Hindus and Atheists and Agnostics and Humanists
that have great behavior.... but
NONE that have the real Gospel.
Likewise, either the monergists or synergists show the "
fruit" of
teaching the True Gospel and the other group shows the "
fruit"
of teaching heresy. It is really as simple as that, we can know
a
real saint (and a false Christian) by their "
fruit" (doctrines).
If fact, it goes even farther than that. Real saints are
COMMANDED
to (a) identify false Christians by their "
fruit" of false doctrines and
(b) rebuke them - since some may be "
babes in Christ" needing
much correction and (c) expel them from the church and separate
from them if they refuse to repent.
THAT is how important showing
good "
fruit" (doctrines/gospels) is, if we
DARE to believe Scripture.
Jim