Why aren't we assured of salvation?

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In the title. Any Bible quotes would be welcome in addition to apologetic arguments.
 
Perhaps we must understand ‘Love’ to find the answer…

Love is action (not a feeling).

Love can’t force a returned love -

God loves us.

Thus, God can’t force us to love back.

If God can’t force us to love back, then we must act to return the love.

Salvation seems to be a completed act of love. (initial act by God and a response by us)

If the choice is made to not return love, which is to reject the act by God, then there is something other than salvation.
 
We actually do have many assurances of salvation. While we don’t necessarily know the future with absolute certainty we can know assurances such as 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins. We can have trust in the Lord to bring us safely to his heaven kingdom, as St Paul wrote. We can have trust in the Lord rather than ourselves. Since the promise depends on God, not on us. Since we are people of faith and the promises of God are by faith. If we look at only ourselves and take our focus off the Lord we can become discouraged.
 
The CCC tells us that those who die in God’s grace and friendship are assured of their salvation. (Paragraphs 1030, 1054)

We have a moral certainly of salvation in that God is faithful to his promises. It is best to say that we are saved (according to the definition just given), we are being saved, and we will be saved (at our deaths).

We humans are fallen, fickle creatures. One day we “feel” like we’re saved and the next we may not. We can become complacent and slide into indifference. We can rebel and sin mortally. It’s we who can’t be sure we’ll be faithful to the end. Even if no man is faithful, God is. Also, in his love for us, God always hopes we will return his love. If he didn’t he’d have destroyed us all long ago.

Not all of the references apply, but in the ones that do, it is clear we need to cooperate with God’s grace to be saved by remaining faithful to the end: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/r/rsv/rsv-idx?type=simple&format=Long&q1=to+the+end&restrict=New+Testament&size=First+100.
 
fisherman_carl said:
We actually do have many assurances of salvation. While we don’t necessarily know the future with absolute certainty we can know assurances such as 1 John 1:9, If we confess our sins he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins. We can have trust in the Lord to bring us safely to his heaven kingdom, as St Paul wrote. We can have trust in the Lord rather than ourselves. Since the promise depends on God, not on us. Since we are people of faith and the promises of God are by faith. If we look at only ourselves and take our focus off the Lord we can become discouraged.
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Scripture references
  • Promises of God are by faith. See Romans 4:16, Galatians 3.
  • The Lord will rescue me from every evil act and deliver me safely to his heavenly kingdom - 2 Tim 4:18
Also read 1 John 5:13 and surrounding verses. We have reason to be confident and very hopeful in Christ for our salvation if we believe in the Son of God.
 
Upgrade25 said:
In the title. Any Bible quotes would be welcome in addition to apologetic arguments.
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We have a guarded assurance, not what Trent referred to as an* “over-confidence”.* Humility, in consideration of our limitations and weaknesses and tendency to sin, should preclude 100% assurance. Only God knows with that level of certainty.
 
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