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My struggles with Christian doctrines and the true Gospel

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I have always been a bit of a pessimist by nature. It may even be genetic because my mom is the same way. I'm usually assuming the worst, an opposite to the optimism bias that humans tend to have. I guess that's part of why I found Jesus as I don't have hope in this world or human nature itself. Even before believing in the Gospel I thought humans were flawed creatures and we couldn't solve the problems of the world by ourselves. Right now we are moving toward a world where humans are more like robots, cogs in a technological machine that doesn't care about them. Humans care less and less about each other, or following any sort of morals. They will increasingly cheat, steal and throw their fellow man under the bus to get ahead in life. Once saved, always saved The Gospel I believed when I was originally converted was the "once saved, always saved" gospel, or OSAS. Some also refer to it as free grace theology. I thought it was beautiful that there was a goo...

Some hope: maybe a message from God?

I was binge watching some videos from an atheist on YouTube who was trying to poke holes in Christianity. After the last video of his that I watched, I saw a song that I had recently heard on my YouTube playlist called All Over Again by Bryan Kearney & Plumb in the recommended videos. So I decided to listen to it and fast forwarded the song, and the following lyrics came at me: And you can hear my still small voice, Saying I love you, you're forgiven, and you are mine You are mine This is the second time this has happened to me in a few days. The last time I recorded it in this post , but it was a different song that time, Umbrella by Rihanna (Skeler Remix) .