Who is feeling very certain about their salvation?

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Now in this case, doubt might be a plus. Because if we get too complacent about our salvation, we slacken off.
As I said on another thread, I don’t doubt God’s existence but I do have doubts about my salvation.
 
I know some Christians of other denoms, who are very certain of their salvation.
I can see some advantages to this “total trust in God” but suspect there are complacency issues as well.
 
I’m never certain. I always hope for mercy. The certainty of once saved always saved was part of what drove me away from the Protestants denominations.
 
Unfortunately some people need the certainty to an extent that they obsess and become mentally unwell over it.
 
Now in this case, doubt might be a plus. Because if we get too complacent about our salvation, we slacken off.
As I said on another thread, I don’t doubt God’s existence but I do have doubts about my salvation.
One should never dispair .Jesus I Trust In You.
 
St Paul was not certain either… just working out his salvation in fear and trembling
 
I’m thinking those who feel certain of their salvation are not going to post on here. 🙂
 
Now in this case, doubt might be a plus. Because if we get too complacent about our salvation, we slacken off.

As I said on another thread, I don’t doubt God’s existence but I do have doubts about my salvation.
Nobody can be certain about their salvation. The only thing we can say objectively with certainty is that dying in a state of grace saves you but we cannot say that we will be saved.
 
Ah, don’t worry. God wouldn’t want to spend eternity without you. No way. 🤣
 
I’m sure God tries really hard to snatch up all those people who leave heaven for hell after death. God wants us all with Him! Do we want to be with Him though? That’s the real question.
 
Perhaps you are right. Some will never seek God. In their rejection of God, they reject their own being, they fall backwards into perpetual night, into a darkness that consumes everything and everyone it touches. Perhaps this leaves them with the dull clarity only the damned can know, but at the cost of the passion and purpose of ever knowing God. Yet, it could be that they still carry the heavy weight of lifely burdens and the burdens of their sins as they are faced with one perpetual truth. That there is no meaning or peace or light to be found on their now eternal journey. That, in the end, they have been found to be nothing more than what they chose to become, a vast, dead, hollow. So they linger there, gazing at the edge of this abyss, afraid to look in, afraid to see the very emptiness of themselves.
 
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You’ve somehow created a hell more terrifying than anything Jonathan Edwards could’ve dreamed of. The loss of purpose. Bone-chilling.
 
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