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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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Lately my OCD has been very horrible, it’s been more convincing than ever to the point where I’m genuinely convinced that I like this stuff, when I get a thought, I’ll hear my intrusive thoughts go “oooh, I like that, I’d do that.” and I just don’t freak out nor feel bad, I just feel like I like it even more, and feel like I would do/act on it and like it, and the feeling is strong and it lingers forever? It genuinely feels like I do, and I’m just lying now, i can’t tell if I make these thoughts worse or anything All I remember mostly just being like confused sometimes when these thoughts happen, but since I’m getting strong emotions that I like it, my brain says that means I did and I’m worried about that being true because I don’t understand nor know It’s like I am resisting to like this stuff now, it’s even tougher now than it was before
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I can't live with OCD anymore. It's ruining my life. I feel like I'm being constantly bullied in my own mind all day everyday. I don't know if what I think and feel is ever real or normal or okay, what is me and what is the OCD thoughts. I don't know if any of my experiences are normal. I'm exhausted from picking apart every single conversation I ever have with anyone until I'm strung out by a vague and ambiguous feeling of guilt. I'm tired of feeling like I'm a bad person and feeling scared all the time and not knowing why and having my brain spin me out on an endless spiralling train of thoughts that never goes anywhere and just makes me feel disconnected from everything and everyone around me. I don't know what I feel and if what I feel is normal or if anything I am doing is real and actually me or if I'm 'losing my mind.' I don't even know if this makes any sense. I get into these states of mind where every thought in my head and everything I feel and perceive makes me question my own sanity. I don't know if anyone likes me because I have absolutely no concept of what I am actually like. I feel completely lost and confused CONSTANTLY.
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so I need to get back into ERP, but it’s so hard to manage these thoughts and learn to deal with them. like I swear my mind has to make everything about it. Like every time I clean my room, my mind’s like yup make sure it’s clean so when your parents find you, or something so stupid like if I get a headache, my mind convinces me that I like the pain and that that’s why I get my thoughts because I actually want to do it. It’s so exhausting. Because I know I would never want to take my life and I treasure my life so why does it do it to me? It’s hard to comprehend the fact of these thoughts too because I don’t know many people with this exact theme. It’s such a scary feeling. And I’m constantly questioning whether I have actual depression or if it’s just my OCD. Yes I have been diagnosed with suicidal OCD, but my mind still tries to convince me otherwise. I just don’t know how to let these just sit and pass without panicking.
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