In Reply to: I don't know posted by porceleindoll on August 06, 2003 at 21:07:48:
Thanks for that Porcelein Doll. I want to follow up some of what you mentioned with some more of my personal feelings.
The "individual" is the one who needs to know. I'm one individual who knows that I joined because I loved Jesus, and God knew that too. The main thing is that: it's for ME to know. I don't think it's fair to the individual for things to be stated that would indicate that someone's decision to devote their life to Christianity as a member of the Family was the result of an evil trick of the Devil, and that God and Christian service had nothing to do with their joining and being in the Family --we're talking about people's lives. Yes, we gave up a lot, in fact just about everything. So because of having given up so much, some of us have difficulty admitting that we made a terrible wrong decision when we joined the Family?
I face up to the evil that was done by Berg and the cult, but it's up to me, as an individual, to judge whether or not Jesus led me into it, and whether I was a Christian or not. Porcelein Doll says, that she knows that she was a Christian while in the Family. She knows that for herself. I know that for myself. I firmly do not agree with anyone who says that Jesus had nothing to do with it. If that's how someone else personally individually see things that way for themselves and their life, wonderful. I'm glad that the found their answers. Because they have to be their own personal answers for themselves. I need my answers for me, even if they're totally different from someone else's.