John Piper at the Ligonier National Conference in June 2000 said, “No Christian can be sure he is a true believer. Hence, there’s an ongoing need to be dedicated to the Lord and deny ourselves so that we might make it.”
Piper actually said this in front of Steven Lawson and other Calvinist leaders and no one challenged Him on this. Since you, as a Calvinist, have nothing to do with your salvation, including belief in the Son, this begs the question. How do you even know if you are really saved? Are your works going to be good enough or have you done enough of them? How would you know? Were you one of those chosen before the foundation of the world or do you just think you were?
Calvinists believe that those who have been truly regenerated will inevitably persevere to the end in saving faith. But how does one know that he is regenerate? The only true test is to persevere to the end in saving faith. If one fails to persevere, that person only reveals that while he may have thought his faith was real, it was only a case of self deception, or even worse, divine deception. John Calvin called this divine deception “evanescent grace”.
So my serious question for any Calvinist that cares to answer, is "How do you know for sure you are saved?"
