I was always reminded that "none of us are guaranteed." Then, a brother gave a talk and said that we hold our own salvations in the palm of our hands in what we choose to do with our lives. I then told my mom that I am saved because I choose to live my life toward that goal. But, "none of us are guaranteed." Huh?
Were you sure to be saved, when you were an active JW?
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BFD
I never thought I'd make it. It was one of the reasons I left. I could never live up to the standard so I was doomed from the get go. So I got up and went. Then got DF'd a short while after that.
I went to school with a kid from the congo and that was my first experience with shunning. The funny thing is that I knew he was buying drugs from the same dealer I was (Ludes). I never ratted him out or called him on it. I left him to his own misery.
BFD
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freeme
for me it always was 50:50.
i always wondered who will get the price.
liberal jws or conservative jw?! the ones that do watch movies or those who dont and spent their whole day studying and in service. i thought about Matth. 7:13,14 all the time and concluded maybe only a small part of the witnesses aka the hardcore ones will get it.
i was never good enough in my opinion.
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MadTiger
"Deep in my heart, I never felt I was good enough.."
I had somewhat similar reservations, even knowing full well that Jehovah God "reads heart condition."
I realize now that if that was the true religion, based on what everyone ELSE was openly and secretly doing, I was in the top 10% at least!!! -
freeme
What a screwed up childhood
yeah, same here!
a whole youth spent in guilt, in tears and fears.
so every time we had a bad storm I thought "this is it" I'm gonna die, The big A is here!
exactly. i know of a girl in my cong. who woke up one night when a heavy storm was outside (one of the biggest i have ever experienced) crawled into her parents bed and said "this is armageddon, is it?" everyone in the cong. said it was SOOOO cute. ha, it was damn sad. shes adult and married now.
to be honest. when the weather is really bad or something else (a loud bang or something) is outside my brain STILL thinks of armageddon. i now that it isnt armageddon, but i think about it when something like this happens. i believe i NEVER get rid of that :-/ makes me angry.
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exwitless
Also, that "MAY" bothered me. That meant I could be doing all I could, following every rule to the letter, and then just because Jehovah felt like it, I could still get destroyed at Armageddon. They might have had some specious logic about "secret sin". But even in the total absence of "secret sin", the "MAY" means you can still get destroyed. And the "MAY" is the stronger term: it implies you have only an even chance, and cannot do anything to alter the odds. Probably means a better chance than not; May means even odds.
That's a very good point. They always have a way of not allowing dubs to feel sure of themselves, don't they?
Well, then, I guess I'd say that I probably definitely might not absolutely have made it through armageddon.
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Sasha
I am much more assured of "Being Saved" now that I am not a witness anymore. When I was, I questioned it. I'm free to enjoy my private relationship with God and his son.