Protestantism teaches – well, most denominations teach (20,000 of them, so it's difficult to say "all" of such a mass – Assurance of Salvation. It may be "stressful" for an individual not to have that, yes. But there it is. The "assurance of salvation"
teaching wasn't a doctrine of the Historical Church (Catholic and
Orthodox) but a Protestant invention. Luther never felt "a new creation
in Christ" so he rewrote the "source code" of the Faith to include this
doctrine via a (then) novel interpretation of Holy Scripture, that
indeed we not not new creations but manure (sin) covered with snow
(God's imputed grace).
Traditional Catholicism taught "infused grace" versus the Protestant "imputed grace".
In any case, one thing we
can be certain of, on Judgment Day, at our own Judgment, we'll each be
able to quote Psalm 19, verse nine (its second half), as President
Lincoln did during his second inaugural: "The judgments of the LORD are
true and righteous altogether." That you can bank on.
No one given a ticket to Hell will cry that their judgment isn't just, that's its "unfair" or, horrors, "racist!"
There's that, at least!
An P
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