OCD unrelated post. For those of you who believe in abrahamic religions, what keeps you believing in God, or what experiences have you had that make you confident that God is real?

Thank you. You didn't write too much, you had a lot of important stuff to say! Thank you for sharing that with me! I agree with everything you said; you made a lot if great points. I think me losing my faith is definitely OCD related because even with overwhelming evidence and me wanting to believe, my brain still says "no, you just wish that was true". It's really annoying. I feel like at the moment even if God came down and personally shook my hand, OCD would try to disprove it. ?

That's funny, I was just thinking about self-awareness and conciousness the other day. I thought the same thing; how could humans be self-aware and conscious with the ability to think and choose as we do without a soul and an extremely intelligent Designer who made that way? Where would our conscience and ability to process information and knowledge come from? It's become more and more evident to me as I've drawn closer to God the past few months.

@hateocd123 Thank you!! And I can understand that completely , I was the same way where even if the evidence was overwhelming , I would still find myself doubting it deep down. It’s definitely hard , but I’m sure you’ll get through it. God bless :))

@xiiiandreww God bless :)

@nicahtx This is exactly how I see it , I started to really think about consciousness and the mind and everything and it really strengthened my faith and sense of meaning , it really is incredible and a very strong arguement. What’s also interesting is cases where people have had brains that aren’t functioning properly and where parts of it are missing , yet the people can function fine without the parts that are supposedly supposed to be what helps them do those tasks. And yeah ! They did an experiment where they showed that free will isn’t part of the brain. The doctor could get a patient to move their arm , but they didn’t actually try or choose to do it. Amazing stuff

One of my very early OCD themes at around six was scrupulosity related so I know how difficult that is. Your comment is encouraging and means a lot. Thank you so much

@hateocd123 I'm glad my comment could help you even a little bit? Yes, sometimes it's extremely difficult to cope with it. I like to imagine angels carrying my soul to Heaven or meeting Jesus at the gates of Paradise when it starts acting up sometimes, especially at night lol. I'll pray for you and I hope whatever you're going through gets better :)

@nicahtx Thank you so much ❤

I used to have such an easy time believing in God and OCD has messed up everything for me. I hope I can get back to having a strong faith again. Seeing people like you guys keeping your faith despite things being hard is awesome and encouraging. God bless ❤

Recently I kind of gave up on God, or maybe I was more just hanging on by a thread. OCD kind of took my faith away from me. I'm ethnically Jewish but I was raised as being Christian with some Jewish tradition still in there. I decided to ask God to show me that he was there for me because without that I couldn't go on believing. Some strange things happened that kind of make me think my prayers were answered.

@hateocd123 Sometimes it takes a little struggling for him to answer our prayers. But he’s walking with us. I’ve had some pretty cruddy things happen in my life to me, ocd being one of them, and my faith in god has waned at times, but I know he is my stronghold. The other night I was sobbing and shaking cause I was so scared from ocd and I just begged God to help me. He’s there for us, even if it’s hard to see sometimes. I’ll surely be praying for you :)

@hateocd123 But like I said, don’t force it. Believe in what you want to believe in. :)

@anne_powell Thank you. I'll be praying for you too. God bless! ❤