Christian assurance is not a guess, a mood, or confidence in our own spiritual performance, but faith resting on the blood and righteousness of Christ revealed in the gospel.

The 1689 Baptist Confession rejects both false presumption and despair, teaching that sincere believers may gain real assurance through true faith in Christ, sincere love for him, and a conscientious pursuit of obedience.

While true believers may possess genuine assurance of salvation, Scripture repeatedly warns that many religious people deceive themselves with false assurance, making careful self-examination and faith in Christ alone essential.

Believers may know they belong to Christ through the promises of the gospel, the witness of the Spirit, and the evidences of grace, while avoiding both false assurance and needless despair.

Bible translation is a providential necessity for the church’s mission, rooted in Scripture itself, shaped by costly history, and sustained by God through imperfect yet faithful human labor.

The most significant textual variants in the New Testament reveal both the complexity of the Bible’s transmission and the remarkable preservation of Christian doctrine throughout the manuscript tradition.

The New Testament has been preserved through thousands of manuscripts containing many textual variants, yet careful comparison shows that these differences are largely insignificant and do not affect the reliability of Scripture.

God providentially preserved Scripture through scribes, manuscripts, and textual transmission, demonstrating the reliability of the Bible despite ordinary human means and minor textual variations.