Would You Agree That Salvation Has to Come From Within Yourself?
Question by Nemi Noo: Would you agree that salvation has to come from within yourself?
From my personal experience and my intuition on reflection, I can provide for you a sample of my past, that I feel even though it was a very negative experience, I had to go through it to understand the goals of the present and the future.
I used to be a heroin addict, it began by just using it to have fun.
After a very short period of time, my body became tolerant and I had to up my doses to achieve the same hit.
Heroin increases the uptake of a certain natural pain relief chemical in the body, endorphin, and it increases the number of receptors for them. When the body is deprived of heroin at this stage, the body can’t naturally match the amount of endorphin required and the body produces noradrenaline instead, this is what is supplied to the receptors looking for endorphin and adrenaline makes us sensitive and anxious.
It takes around 2-4 weeks for the body to return to normal endorphin/adrenaline balance, but within this time from the moment of withdrawal, the body is hyperactive and goes into “cold turkey”, kind of like a flu, but with cravings and critical insomnia, diarrhea, sweats, anxiety and tremors and even convulsions.
Instead of stopping before it got worse, I made it a new responsibility to consume more heroin, so I didn’t feel ill.
This made me delusional, not in sense of hallucinating, but from the fact of avoiding my responsibilities. I began to hate anything to do with empathy and caring for others, totally self centered, I began to think the world owed me a living and that I would steal, threaten and do just about everything I needed to, to fulfil my desire for the drug.
Of course, the powers that be come into play and it got to the point where I just couldn’t accommodate the complexities of heroin use any longer as my financial, social and liberty status was at risk and even my health.
I began to realize that I was solely responsible for my actions, instead of being able to blame heroin for the consequences. Nothing in itself can cause harm to us, we have to be accountable, money and religion isn’t evil in itself, it is what the individual does with it that makes the difference.
When I became more conscious of my attitude, I began to realize that I am not responsible for what I think, but I am responsible for my actions and the consequences of those actions.
What goes in, is what comes out, what goes around comes around and if you depend on yourself, you will set yourself free.
It wouldn’t make sense to say that heroin made my life a misery. I made my life a misery by using heroin. We also have the power to ruin other people’s lives through our actions, but if they are as conscious of their attitude and their own responsibilities and have a mind of their own, they are much more likely to be able to help people who were in my position, to become much more aware of how the only person they are fooling, is themselves.
I have not touched drugs for a year now, as I finally concluded that if I use, I will end up with exactly the same problems to choose from.
The only people that helped me come out of this vicious circle, were those that were responsible and truthful and spoke from experience.
I did it all by myself, information and advice is just that, information and advice, I can choose to be conscious and learn how it applies to me, or I can ignore it and be unconscious and stay in a circle of denial and destruction.
Many people who have had any problems in their life similar to this, will tell you that it is all down to what they do, it doesn’t help to just think about how difficult it is to be humble and say it is a higher power, or devils and demons and you have to accept this in order to move on, as this removes the responsibility from you, an addict will justify this as “Well it is because of this deity and spirit, I can’t help that” and they would be right, it is what YOU do that makes any difference, good or bad.
The easiest person to lie to, is yourself, you have to be able to see what is in your life and how your choices affect yourself and others, this is the only way to be empathetic.
Too many people just accept the words of others, not having a clue if it applies to them and just take on values that never work for them.. I chose to take drugs to fit in with my friends at the time, but I sat back and I asked “Does this make my life good?”.
We all need to see we have choice and that we have to act to get results in life.
It’s ok to believe, as long as you KNOW what you believe and how it affects you and others.
I did all this, 6 years of self inflicted misery, but I came out the other side and now I am sharing my experience and my intuitive reflections, my actions here, may help others to save themselves. Words in the Bible, are just words, think to know how they save YOU.
Best answer:
Answer by Atheist POWER!
Bloody hell
Answer by John
Salvation came from the blood of Jesus Christ. If you do not believe he died for our sins, you will not be saved.