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Hello Cojack! Just by reading your story...I can tell you were raised Catholic. First off, congrats on finishing college! I am not going to answer your question fully since I believe its going to give you reassurance and thats a no no for OCD. I will tell you this...it’s important to have your own personal beliefs and to stick with them. This is coming from someone who is currently practicing Catholicism. You will find many Catholics who believe in one thing and some who don’t believe in another thing but both call themselves Catholics. Ive personally dealt with scrupulosity many of times. Its not easy but it gets better ?
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- 6y ago
Sweet soul! Jesus wants me to tell you that you are not only completely forgiven, but completely and utterly adored! He loves you, and there is nothing you can do to earn it! Isn’t that cool? Float in the ocean of his grace. It is yours.
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- 6y ago
Hi Cojack - I am also Catholic, suffer from religiosity, and worry all the time that I’m going to hell. The funny thing is that I don’t really even believe in hell, most days. ? My godmother, a nun, and one of the most amazing people I’ve known, told me that heaven and hell are metaphors and not to be interpreted literally. A nun! Blasphemy to many, I’m sure, but I’m going to believe her over a priest who threatens hell over cheating on a test. We all have our interpretations and can we prove which is correct? Can anyone? I don’t think so. It comes down to faith, then, which comes down to choosing which interpretation resonates with you the best. I hope it’s a kind one. Also, I cheated in college, too. It didn’t hurt anyone but me and I’ve paid for it. The hard part is forgiving ourselves. Best to you. Peace be with you. ?
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- 6y ago
Hi my friend. I’m so sorry to hear that things have been hard for you and your mom. I’m not Catholic, but I am a Christian so I thought I should tell you what I believe. You are right, you only need to be repentant and confess to God. He is the only One who has the authority to forgive our sins and the Bible says that He will. I know you feel undeserving, but that makes His grace all the more beautiful because it covers everything❤️❤️
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- 6y ago
Ephesians 2:8!
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- 6y ago
Thank you guys. You are all so nice. Im just worried because the priest at my Roman Catholic Church was so adamant on if you have a mortal sin you will go to hell! He said It doesn’t matter if you have more good then you then bad!! You go straight to hell. I feel like a good person. I would never hurt or kill anyone and I try to help people when I can. Since plagiarism is stealing am I going to hell? Even though I prayed to god to forgive me and he gave me a second chance and the professor gave me a second chance. I don’t want to go to hell when I die. I want to see my grandfather who passed away 6 months ago and I miss him dearly. Mom says only really bad people go to hell. So am I considered a bad person?? It’s so confusing and hurting my head???.
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- 6y ago
My friend, salvation isn’t earned. It isn’t about whether you’ve been good or bad because the Bible says no one is good but God. All sins are mortal if we don’t have His forgiveness. It’s whether or not we have accepted Jesus as our Savior that matters. His grace covers all our sins. The Bible says that there is no condemnation for those in Christ❤️❤️
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- 6y ago
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9
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17f I have a lot of events, but my main and my worst one which is absolutely fucking diabolical was done when I was 14 and repeated when I was 16. Everytime I post something about real event ocd here people are like you are probably didn't do anything that bad, and when they hear what I did they are like yeah that's bad. Someone even asked me if I'm autistic cause "it's crazy how you didn't realize that the thing ypu were doing was wrong at this age." And I kinda agree, like it's fucked up It's just that my event is bad. Doesn't mean I don't have real event ocd. You can have a reocd over the event that was bad, it doesn't mean the event wasn't that bad or you don't have recod. It's just people always expect it to be something innocent and it's not Even a healthy person would feel guilty over it, it's just that I had ocd my whole life and it's making the guilt absolutely destructive, like to the point when I sometimes have a hard time breathing when I think about it, I lost more than a year of life to it, almost checked myself out couple of times if I wasn't so scared of pain/failure, the event haunts me in my dreams, it's in my head 24/7 and I will never able to forgive myself. That ocd. But the event itself was bad. So maybe i deserve it.
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