You are speaking here of hope not faith. What is unscriptural is mixing up the two. Faith is in the moment...knowing that as we walk in His victory we are experiencing His salvation.
Hope is the outcome of our faith.
We trust that what Jesus said is true. Jesus promised us resurrection. We believe Him, and so we expect to be resurrected. We have the hope of the resurrection.
What I'm pointing to is that the Bible tells us that there is a way by which we will in fact KNOW that we are in Him, and He in us, by His Spirit given to us.
I'm not talking about "experiencing salvation", I'm talking about personally knowing our Creator God.
But judgment day is a whole other matter. Having a living hope and a carnal certainty are two very different things. Religion breeds certainty, not a living hope.
Yes, this is very true. Carnal understandings whatever they are will lead you astray. Religion provides people a means by which they can be deceived, but a living hope,
1 Peter 1:3 KJV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
We've been born into a living hope, living because Christ lives in me, and I know He is here, and I believe Him, He gives me life, and will give me life, according to His promise.
Judgement Day . . . is not the day on which God casts out His children, to be eternally ashamed and contemned. Will you only know whether you truly knew God after your life is over? God says we will know if we know Him, what are we saying when we say we can't really know? That we don't know?
We can draw wrong conclusions so easily based on loving our own life. Didn't Judas cast out demons and do signs and wonders? Did he not walk with Jesus?
Yes we most certainly can reach VERY erroneous conclusions.
We can have all manner of amazing and wonderful-seeming experiences. We can look like the real deal. We can think we understand mysteries untouched by those around us. But none of these, not our experiences, no matter what they seemed to be, nor our reputation, nor our opinions of ourselves, none of these show whether or not we truly know God.
I don't have much to say most the time regarding what people tell me they've experienced. My brother and I can look at the same thing, and where I see red, he sees gray. What is it really?
But when God speaks in His Word, I know His Word is truth. I don't put my trust in people or such claims as they might make, I put my trust in Jesus Christ.
Didn't Jesus say that MANY will say...Lord, Lord, look at all we did in your name...And Jesus will respond...go away I never knew you...workers of iniquity.
Again, very true. They will go away, having never known Jesus. And they didn't even say that they did! "Lord! Look at what we did!"
When in reality the question is, do we know Him? And these did not. They never did. Deluded thinking they had to "do" something, when what they really needed was to know Him.
This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom You have sent.
So what IS biblical is not certainty but godly fear and humility. The rest is noise made by the flesh.
Is it unScriptural to know God? That hardly seems to be right.
Much love!