All of these verses make it clear that although we are saved by simple faith and can have a present assurance of salvation based on that faith, we must go on believing if we're to arrive safely home. We must be diligent, constant and intentional for as long as life lasts. In other words, we are saved but we are also being saved. And the only guaran

Placing trust in the personal God of the Bible and having knowledge of his truth are essential to Christianity.