Lesslie Newbigin finds in 2 Timothy 1:12 the right kind of certainty that Christians should have about their faith:
"I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me."
He observes that there three aspects of this kind of certainty:
- Certainty rests not in the competence of my knowledge, but in the faithfulness of the one whom I know.
- It is something in via. I don't possess it. I am on my way to it. I am looking forward to that day when it will be fully known to me.
- It is a matter of grace ("What has entrusted to me")
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