Hell
Does anyone question that they'll go to hell because of your intrusive thoughts. I feel so scared about that because I grew up Catholic
I am deep in my Christian faith. Remember, OCD latches onto your values. When I was 11, I LOVED SpongeBob. Also, I was amidst a world of doubt my OCD would put me through in my faith. I would sit there for HOURS just staring at the wall telling myself, “there is a God”. I knew there is a God. But my OCD would tell me otherwise. Well one day, I was drawing a picture of SpongeBob and of course, there goes my OCD making me doubt my faith in God again. So I had to start telling myself that there is a God. However, I accidentally said, “There is a Soongebob.” The sinking bowling ball feeling in my stomach and the numbness running through my body intensified as I realized I was going to Hell because I said “SpongeBob” instead of “God”. I went cold turkey in SpongeBob after that. If it didn’t, I was sure I was going to go to hell. I know now that’s not true. In my beliefs, if I may share with you, as long as you have Jesus Christ as your savior, you are saved. You will not go to hell. And believe me, replacing God with SpongeBob is the most innocent thing compared to the intrusive thoughts I’ve had throughout my life. I am praying for you💖
Thank you for sharing. I so needed to hear that. ♥
@Speckles Remember, none of us are perfect. It’s not like only the perfect ones or the ones closer to being perfect get to heaven and the imperfect ones go to hell. It’s not based on our works. It’s based on Jesus being our savior💖
@Jilli Even if I have taboo thoughts. I hope I'll be forgiven for those. I hate these images I have. I feel so alone in this disease.
@Speckles If you accept Jesus as your savior, you are already forgiven. Please know you’re not alone. OCD wants you to feel alone and lies to you when it makes you feel you’re alone. Don’t give it that satisfaction. I wouldn’t be here understanding what you’re saying if you were alone. It also sounds like you don’t want these thoughts you have. You cannot control them. If I were to tell you to go walk around the block without thinking of a fox, a fox would simply pop up into your thoughts and it would be out of your control. These thoughts are out of your control as well. So again, going to heaven is not based on the works you do. It’s based on Jesus being your savior. If He is your savior, you are forgiven. For your thoughts, for everything. Praying for you💖
@Speckles It’s a real struggle. I know. But we just cannot give OCD the satisfaction.
@Jilli Thank you so much! I appreciate you praying for me. I'm having a really hard time with this OCD. I have to separate the OCD and myself. It's making me feel like an evil person. Your words are helping me get thru this tho, so I'm very thankful
@Speckles I’m thankful you’ve shared this so I can share my thoughts and beliefs with you! My OCD makes me feel like an evil person as well. But I tell myself the same. I have to separate the OCD and myself. If I didn’t have OCD, I wouldn’t have these thoughts. If I did have these thoughts, I wouldn’t give them attention and take them way out of proportion and over analyze them like I do now. Truth is, these thoughts don’t make me an evil person. They’re just a reminder of how evil my OCD is. I have to tell myself that’s the truth whether I believe it or not
@Speckles It’ll be okay💖
I question if I'm already in it with them
I get it! I feel the same way!
The only people who are going to hell are the people who reject Jesus Christ as their Savior. Your thoughts are not your fault and God knows that, it’s a mental illness that we have that we can’t control and God is merciful and compassionate to us. Remember that Jesus paid for all of our sins on the cross including doubt and fear! If you’ve trusted in him as your Savior, you have nothing to fear, because he will never let you go or abandon you ever.
How are you going to Hell for something not yours or under your control? So basically if a person was borne with a disability keeping him/her from praying for example, he or she would go te Hell?
I feel like this is all my fault for having these images. Someone with a disability is different than me conjuring up terrible thoughts.
@Speckles Did you choose to have OCD? Is OCD something you choose to have? It sounds like a disability to me
@hanysm@gmail.com No...I didn't. I hate that I have it! I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. I do wish I had another disease instead of this one. 😔
@Speckles Then it is a disability that is brought upon you. So why feel guilty? For example, I am diabetic, and I have to use the bathroom urinting very often. Should I feel guilty that I stop the car often when we travelling to use the restroom? You tell me???
@hanysm@gmail.com I feel guilty bc my brain had me think of something I shouldn't have. Diabetes is a physical thing, so that's different. I understand what you are saying tho. I would like to say that I didn't do this to myself.
@Speckles I think you imagining you control your brain. The average person gets about 60,000 thoughts per day. If you are in control of your brain to blame yourself for those thoughts, can you list few thousand of those thoughts for us? See, you are not in control of your brain, it is in control of your thoughts, and OCD is a disorder in such control organ. So, again why feel guilty for what you can't and don't control???
@hanysm@gmail.com Thank you... I don't want to feel guilty and a shamed. I'll take your approach to it. That helps me not feel so horrible.
My religion ocd is so terrifying. I’m Catholic, and I get thoughts that I’m going to hell constantly It’s so exhausting and it scares me so much when my brain tells me I’m going straight to hell and that I’m a horrible person, and it makes me believe it
Welp, I was daydreaming had a blasphemous intrusive thought in my head and I ruminated and replayed the thought over and over again and I'm fearing that I may go to hell.
hi guys it’s been awhile since i’ve been on here but right now i’m starting to get really scared i’m scared to go to hell because i swear, have intrusive thoughts and compulsions (obviously) and i look at and do s*xually immoral acts i am a catholic person and i’ve always stood by the notion that if i act with good intentions then there is no issue, but my mum was talking about her fear of going to hell (her ocd subtypes are about this) and now i feel guilty when i sin, even tho i only want peace in the world i go to reddit and look at some answers for this stuff (i have a really bad compulsion of searching questions on google for hours) and they mostly say i will go to hell if i sin i also get really depressed then question god’s existence and then wonder why i should be alive and stuff and then i’m guilty later i really don’t want this to become a major subtype. i have health ocd but it’s calmed down since i’ve been diagnosed with a health condition (for some reason??) can someone, christian or not, please respond with their experience with this subtype or anyone with advice at all?
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