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Remember we’re all horrible people apart from Jesus’ sacrifice for our sins. We aren’t one bit righteous apart from Him.
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ERP for ya: “Well, maybe I’m going to hell, but I’m still going to live my life serving Jesus, because I love Him.”
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I used to deal with a lot of religious OCD as a kid, since I’m also Catholic, and of course, being lgbt doesn’t help with that kind of OCD either (even if I don’t believe homosexuality is wrong in any way, it still kinda gets to you after hearing it from others). I promise it’ll get better. God loves and forgives, and as long as you go through life doing your best to be a good person, I’m sure you’ll get to Heaven. ❤️❤️
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Salvation is not earned by being a good person. It comes only through a commitment by faith to trust in Jesus, and to have a relationship with Him. To try to earn our way to salvation is an exercise in futility, and it would render the His death on the Christ null and void. However the results of a relationship with the Lord are good works, but it isn’t to earn salvation.
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Thanks.
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I had a very intense fear of hell. I had to do a lot of searching. You are in your own hell right now. God doesn’t want his children in pain. You should feel love. Hell is a farce. That’s where I ended up. Maybe it’s not where you end up, but you should feel god’s love, not his anger at all times. That is not the point.
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For a Christian, the truth of the gospel rests on the overwhelmingly evidential resurrection. If there is no hell, there was no reason for the crucifixion and resurrection, because what would be the point of salvation, if there is nothing from which to save us from (the ramifications of our unrepentant sins and eternity in hell from our unbelief in Jesus)? The Bible is the Christian’s source of truth, as it is God’s very word. You can’t be a Christian if you choose to believe there is no hell, no reason for redemption, etc.
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I know this is an old thread but I have had terrible scrupulosity surrounding hell. I have been doing a lot of reassurance seeking (compulsive; bad, I know) and have learned a lot about the origins of the Christian doctrine of hell. This is not a forum for theological debate but I just wanted to note that actually @katiekat, many of the very early church fathers and mothers (ie, gregory of nyssa, Origen) did not believe in hell (or believed that even if souls were separated from God for a time, that God would reconcile them in the end) and they were very much Christians; in fact, they shaped the way we understand our faith now. So yes, one can be a Christian and believe there is no hell. @caitlin12, Father Richard Rohr’s work has been very very helpful to me. As long as you don’t seek it out for reassurance to assuage the obsessions, his “Hell, no!” lecture was life changing and life giving for me. You can find it on YouTube.
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i keep having such intrusive religious ocd thoughts, i feel like i’m sinning and i don’t want to leave my religion p.s i’m a muslim
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I've been doing more research on the ins and outs of Catholicism, and man are the guidelines very strict. They're not bad in any sense, and following them makes for a good person, but with ocd these guidelines seem near impossible to properly follow. For example, it's a mortal sin to have an impure thought, and commiting a mortal sin puts you in a state of sin. This means you cannot receive the eucharist (body of Christ) at mass, which is a way to connect closer to God. You have to confess in order to be free from mortal sin. This is fine and all, but this means in my case I'd have to confess almost every week, which can be so tiring. I'm not trying to bash on my own religion, but these guidelines make it so incredibly difficult for me to feel good about myself. Knowing I'm committing one of the worst forms of sin everyday. Intrusive thoughts are a constant thing, does that make me a child of sin? I even skipped mass today because I feel guilty about being in mortal sin, but skipping mass is also a mortal sin! I feel absolutely terrible about myself right now, and feel as if my connection with God has been cut and it's entirely my fault...
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Hey everyone please help me I am suffering from religious ocd and it is so severe I am also suffering from death fear and this fear making my ocd worse I cannot explain which type of thoughts I am suffering I cannot sleep at night due to fear to go to hell. And this is making my days even more worse I started cry all day cannot do home chores due to fear irrational fears has been generated and my mind force me to say bad words about prestigious figures which I cannot imagine even then I start weeping and asking forgiveness to God and started to say I am not doing then feelings become more worse and all stuff become trigger I don't know i am doing it by self or not? Need help I cannot sleep even in day please save me.
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