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I guess I meant believers when I was a believer I never had much worry, faith the size of a mustard seed and all that, and my faith was much stronger then that. When I stopped believing well I no longer feared hell. In Thomas' thread a lot of people were saying when they were Christians they were worried about hell. I dunno maybe it's my Protestant upbringing that believing in Jesus and accepting him into your heart was how you got to heaven and since I did that I was never too fussed about the whole thing.
Faith that evaporates tells you what kind of faith it was. The framework you grew up in starts the story with your decision. Scripture starts it before the foundation of the world, a people chosen in Christ before time existed, given to the Son by the Father. The ones who fall away weren't really of us to begin with. "Accept Jesus into your heart" isn't actually in the text anywhere. It's a 20th-century revivalist gloss on a much older and stranger doctrine. What kept you unworried was confidence you'd done the transaction right. That's exactly what should have unsettled you. If the old confidence wasn't real, maybe the real thing just hasn't come yet. Election runs on His timetable, and plenty of His sheep have wandered far longer roads before they heard the call.
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