Religious OCD

Bottom line - because he is God. He can do whatever he wants. But in a more nuanced way, Jesus *is* God. So essentially, in God's deep love and mercy for us, he knew that no amount of Jewish law, no amount of commandments, no amount of sacrifices we humans made would ever be good enough to make us perfect and get us into heaven. The only way he could right our wrongs is by coming down himself and paying the price himself. So it's not that God said "HA, I'll have my disposable son do it." like so many people twist it. It's that GOD HIMSELF saved us. He came down in human form so that he could have the full human experience - sufferring, pain, emotion, etc. - so that he could also show us that he knows what it's like to be human amd to go through sufferring like we do. He just did it perfectly, unlike us. He's not some big God in the sky watching us like ants, he truly understands us. That is the difference.

I have the same issue. I have intrusive thoughts about my Christian faith because I deeply care about my Christian faith. OCD attacks everything you care about. It’s an illusion and not a representation of you. Thoughts are just thoughts. God knows you better than you know yourself and knows you don’t mean to insult him. Don’t believe OCD’s lies. All you need to do is sit with the thought, don’t react. Over time, your OCD will quiet down.

Relax thoughts are thoughts until you don't react it I know it's hard but try to talk to yourself that the stuff that I cannot understand i will not think about it. God has made the world very beautiful go around and focus on other tasks.

Jesus is God so God did die on the cross. God is a 3 in 1 God. God the Creator existing in eternity.....Jesus, God revealing Himself to us in the form of humanity. All human, all God....the Holy Spirit, God indwelling those who are His children to comfort us. It's amazing, perfect, and complete.

Do you see an OCD therapist?

Sometimes, difficult questions pop into our minds. Other times, possibilities of doing something awful pop into our minds. We can't always find answers to those questions and can't absolutely eliminate possibilities of doing something against our values. How to prevent that from tormenting us? It's possible we may not be able to live without answers to some difficult questions and we may lose all self-control, but based on evidence and common sense, it isn't probable. Sometimes we may need to let our emotions calm down to be able to be a fair judge of probabilities of future events happening. Fear may push us to overinflate the probabilities of bad things happening if we don't give in to ruminations or compulsions to prevent those bad things from happening. It's why it's better sometimes to let our fears calm down instead of arguing with our unwanted intrusive thoughts.