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He is not mad at you. Someone who has no relationship with God would not care if the tattoo made him upset or not. The fact that you care, shows that your heart is in the right place. Plenty of people do things unknowingly that are sin. But thankfully we have a God who sent his son to die for all our sins.
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I agree with a previous poster that said the tattoo isn’t really the issue here. I’m assuming because you have ocd (and I experience the same exact themes) that if it wasn’t the tattoo making you question your stance with God, it would be something else. I don’t know if you listen to Mark DeJesus’s podcast/YouTube videos on religious ocd, but if you haven’t yet, I HIGLHLY suggest giving them a try. They have helped me make HUGE strides. He always says, “the problem is not the problem.” What he’s getting at is to our inability to connect with the Father’s love. Another thing that’s helped me is a quote from Alistair Begg, - “if I don’t preach the gospel to myself all day and everyday then I will find myself beginning to trust myself and my experience which is part of my fallenness as a human. If I take my eyes of the cross, it will either lead to absolute despair or a horrible kind of arrogance. But because the sinless savior died, my sinful soul is counted free.”
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Thank you I will definitely check him out!
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I don’t think God is disappointed in you. You didn’t know the history and even if you did, if you chose it for another reason I don’t know that it would be an issue. I’ve heard the Christmas tree has pagan roots. But it means something different to us today
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Several Christmas traditions have pagan history but they were repurposed to celebrate the birth of Jesus. What does that tattoo mean to you?
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I guess I should have prefaced this in my original post, but please don’t leave comments that are disrespectful and unhelpful. I mainly just posted this so other people with similar issues could relate. Not so people could be disrespectful towards my beliefs and others. Thank you to those who have been leaving kind messages.
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God knows your heart, He’s not dissapointed in you. You got the tattoo because you liked the art and thought it looked pretty
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Every word that I say or every action that I do... I think I will go to he'll because of that!😭
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@compulsion5000 This isn't a helpful comment
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@titaniumonetwo Reassurance is bad no?
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@compulsion5000 Sure, but belittling someone's beliefs isn't not giving reassurance.
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@titaniumonetwo It actually is: “your beliefs are wrong, therefore you have nothing to worry about.” So it’s both disrespectful and reassurance.
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Yesterday I kept thinking about something sad about God like yk when you feel disappointed in God sometimes :( so I had just gotten a really bad thought of God turning into a demon …. And it felt like like I was thinking it for a sec like intentionally… and I quickly started to panic and feel really bad bc I Love God a lot but I’m afraid I committed the Unforgivable sin aka blasphemy my brain gets to addicted to think about certain things I can’t think about
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So, alot has changed. I'm Christian and currently believe we are in the end of times. It's changed my whole perspective on life. I quit my job and moved back in with family, starting to go to church, apologized to those I hurt except, one person who I talked to two family members and they told me to delete the message and with my other apology ( that i also believed was God telling me to confess in 2020) i lied at some parts because of shame and confusing myself most likely intentionally. I confessed everything to my dad and he says since i turned from it, repented, that i need to let it go and continue forward. Since then, my minds been saying that I'm outside of God's will and everything's gone down hill. I had also prayed that God exposed me and now it's like all this evil and wickedness that feels like it's coming out of my heart settles into my chest. I've prayed to God, worshipped to God, but thoughts and images of being sent to hell or my loved ones pops into my head and I've gone to sleep twice each night accepting the fact that because of me not doing so may have doomed me and my loved ones and I feel scared that I got so tired and stopped fighting it. I've had ocd since I was 7 but it just is so scary because it's hitting down to the wire and I'm scared that I was never a child of God at all I mean I have iniquity I thought I repented for but people I love still struggle with what I've done and I prayed for them and tried to help them and suggest therapy but I haven't did what I could to make it right like I should've. But these images and thoughts they're horrible. I feel like I'm against God truly and I'm like Lord change the circumstances and I won't resist so that I can preach Your word and everyday I feel like I'm gambling. It's like every thought is biblical for the most part. I don't want to kill myself cuz what if I have a chance that God will have mercy on me but....
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