Doubting your salvation

[beth]

(05-09-2012 02:58 PM)NotUnderLaw Wrote:  Yep. The emphasis on "did I say the right prayer" or "did I mean it enough" or "had I repented properly" or "was I 100% sure, not 99% sure with a bit of doubt", "was I reading my Bible daily", "was I doing devotions", "did I cry over the lost" etc etc all of that stuff only bred more doubt.

But in reality, it isn't MY salvation. It's God's. And he can't mess it up. It's finished. Done deal. I'm saved.

There was also that whole "You need to write the date and time in your Bible, so you have assurance. Your date and time of physical birth is recorded. You need to do the same for your spiritual rebirth." Well, that always gave me problems, because I was 7 when I trusted Christ, and wasn't exactly writing very well, and had been taught to only put my name in a Bible, and not write all over it. And that whole recording your date and time of "the prayer" really wasn't an issue at the SBC church we attended, pre-cult. So imagine the problems I had when we went to one of the cult churches where the preacher was fishing for "decisions" and started up that mess.