J. Hampton Keathley III summarizes Charles Bell thus: "John Calvin categorically warned against looking to ourselves, that is, to our works or the fruits of the Spirit, for certainty of our salvation. He taught that we should view Christ as the objective basis of our assurance. Looking to ourselves produces doubt and undermines the saving work of Christ. He rejected the exhortation to self-examination as a dangerous dogma. Calvin finds his assurance in the Scriptures alone and not in realizations or experiences of