The devil’s temptations have one purpose—to cause the believer to lose faith in and despair of God’s forgiveness. We find such a temptation when the devil causes us to question God’s election or predestination of us in “eternity as a past event” (i.e. “eternity-past”). It goes something like this, “Did God elect or predestine me … More The Comfort and Assurance of Eternal Election!