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hypothetically--how would salvation work in someone with multiple personalities?

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  1. evenifigoalone

    evenifigoalone Well-Known Member

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    Try blacking out for days and finding stuff you did that you don't remember doing. One minute you were watching TV and the next you find yourself in the middle of the street, and apparently three days have passed. Imagine one of your other personalities writing to you in a journal, that you know you didn't write. This is the kind of stuff that happens with DID.

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    Certainly. There is always rebuke in the flesh for sin. The ultimate rebuke is death.

    The first time I held a brain, I was somewhat in awe. I held what was in essence the sum of nature. The thinking mechanism for decisions.

    Yet, no matter the tool, such was never retrievable.

    Then I sit and recall the records of heaven that are opened and all are judged from the books concerning all they did, thought, motives, intents... it is all written in the books.

    Good thing time is no more, someone might loose interest.
     
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    I got through my addiction and depression entirely without medication or professional help of any sort. In my case, the depression was a direct result of the addiction, which created an imbalance as my brain only produced dopamine when indulging in the object of my addiction. Once I escaped the addiction it took a long time for imbalance to right itself, but it eventually did.

    I do take meds for my OCD and social anxiety, and have been for nearly two years. I'm not sorry, and I won't stop.

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    One of the forgotten of the past is keeping a personal journal.

    I was never good at it. Would want anyone reading it. Wouldn’t want the shame and failures to be exposed more then they were.
     
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    OCD is tough.

    Folks think that cognitive behavioral therapy can cure it, but it at best can mask one manifestation and another will pop up.
     
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    In most translations, you see "fear".
     
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    I dont recall telling you to stop.
     
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    Ok I see it. Thanks.
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    I wanted to get back to the OP. I want to present my opinion.

    The most protective of the personalities would be the most aggressively protective. So even the conviction of sin by the
    Holy Spirit would cause the retreat into this personality.

    Scripturally, (again, imo) Saul became somewhat DID when the evil spirit was upon him. Music was the therapy choice, but that didn’t ultimately work.

    In my opinion, redemption will bring unity of the person into a single focused mind in which they are completely aware of all the personalities and the actions.
     
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    It isn’t OCD, not really.

    It’s CDO, because everything has to be in alphabetical order.....

    Don’t worry, you’ll get it later and think it’s funny.

    I’ve heard people argue that mentally ill or mentally challenged folks fall in the same category as children when it comes to salvation.

    I’m not sure. I certainly don’t believe each personality is judged separately with some going to heaven and others to hell. That would make the resurrection particularly problematic.

    Peace to you
     
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    That's movies, not reality.
     
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    Actually, it is. It is rare, but does certainly happen.

    If it can happen with an alcoholic (and it does) it certainly can with sever mental issues.

    But like I said, it is rare.
     
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    You guys are crazy...:Laugh
     
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