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Originally Posted by Sherri
I wasn't oppressed and depressed when I was in UPC and holding to the standards that they set. I'm also not oppressed or depressed now! I'm pretty much a happy person, no matter the setting. I just am at a point now that I don't have to follow those rules anymore, because I'm not a part of it. However, to say that I feel "liberated" now - I guess I really never felt like I was in bondage. I was just in submission.
Hope that makes sense. I know what I'm TRYING to say. LOL!
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I was never in bondage to standards. But I was (personally) in bondage to fear. Fear permeated my entire spiritual walk. Fear of displeasing God, fear of being carnal, or worldly, fear that doing the tiniest little thing wrong would send me to hell, or at the very least cause God to "chasten me" (i.e. send great suffering into my life to send me a lesson).
So I do feel like I have been liberated. Because by living in constant fear of hell, my life pretty much already was.
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