[Mad Dawg]

I think scrupulosity and doubt plague a lot of people across many denominational lines. There’s nothing in Catholic dogma to justify such doubt.

[cuban leaf]

There’s nothing in Catholic dogma to justify such doubt.

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Maybe not, but the same thing happened with her father in law of her first husband (died of Cancer). He was 84 when he confided the same type of stuff to her. But in his case, he didn’t read the bible and believed it is too complicated for the average person to understand.

But I agree with you that doubt is about the individual, though what a particular congregation teaches can mess you up to one degree or another. For 25 years of my Christian walk I believed that non-believers went to a place of everlasting conscious torture. Then I actually studied it...

[metmom]

I think scrupulosity and doubt plague a lot of people across many denominational lines. There’s nothing in Catholic dogma to justify such doubt.

Except that if you express assurance of your salvation, you are accused of having the sin of *presumption*.