If a person
says they believe something, the more natural question is why do you believe it, not how
do you know you that believe it.
If someone said they believed that the earth was flat, I would not ask them, “How do you
know you believe that?” I would ask
them, “why do you believe that?”
If a person doubts their salvation, I would ask them what they believe. It could be that they never understood the terms of salvation correctly, but I would like to know what the content of their faith is.
Some take the view that one cannot believe something and later not believe it. But why not? Why couldn't one have a change of mind?
But one may not have believed in the right thing, as well, and had a false assurance.
When we speak of "saving faith," we are speaking of faith in a particular content. What if the content was wrong or incomplete at the supposed point of saving faith?
I would like
to know what a person believes and what persuaded them.
