Assurance was one of the war-cries of the Protestant Reformation. Because we are justified by faith alone, by Christ alone, then assurance is the birth right of every Christian. But, we need to be careful about how we understand assurance, within the broader matrix of who God is, and what it means to have faith in him. Otherwise, sadly and ironically, the doctrine or assurance could cause us to fall away. Our assumption re the nature of assurance is based on our assumptions concerning the nature of the bible, and what it means to trust Jesus – to have “faith”. God is a person, not a thing. Jesus is a person, not a thing. The Holy Spirit is a person, not a thing - nor an impersonal power. We – humans, Christians – are people, not things. The relationship between things is static, because things are static. You put two rocks down side by side, and measure the distance between them. That’s it. We know for certain the distance bet...