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Recent content by Navyreb

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    Does it ever *feel* fictional to you when you read the Word?

    I used to feel the same way myself. It wasn't like I didn't believe it, but it felt like reading a story. Then I realized that I feel the same way when I read history books, which I believe to be mostly true, and I pretty much got over it. I will say though, that those moments when you are...
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    Struggling.... Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

    I think you might be right about concern being a good sign.... I did say something out loud once... I had taken to turning any potentially bad thoughts about the Spirit into bad thoughts about Satan. I got so fed up with it that I decided to say something really bad about Satan out loud, but I...
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    Struggling.... Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

    Do you ever get very analytical with all of the kinds of thoughts you have? Whenever I have a "thought" against the Holy Spirit, I always try to break it down into what kind of thought it is. It seems to me that there is a difference between thinking about something or having something pop in...
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    Struggling.... Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

    I see what you're saying... I don't know though, this time seems different from all of the others. Ha of course it always does. Usually, I get worried that I will think a thought, then I concentrate very hard on not thinking that thought, and then it sort of spikes its way in. This time, I...
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    Struggling.... Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

    I guess I'm worried because this time the the thoughts didn't just pop in my head like something that just occurred to me. I actually well, thought the thoughts. Some little part of me was freaking out, but it's like I had been trying so hard not to think them that I just had to. I don't know...
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    Struggling.... Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

    Well, I just kind of had something weird happen to me. I just woke up, and I was feeling kind of refreshed or whatever, and I started thinking about the situation I'm having with the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Thinking one of the things that I have been trying not to for a while suddenly...
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    Struggling.... Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

    Hey again. I wrote on these boards about my problems with OCD and the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit sometime last winter, and things are getting bad again. For the past few days, I have been fighting off thoughts against the Holy Spirit, and it was kind of reaching that point where I run out of...
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    Blaspheme Holy Spirit..... need help

    Thanks shelovesChrist, I needed that. I have gotten used to some of the thoughts as well, but it seems like they always get a little more intense as soon as I become comfortable with where I am at. I'm still struggling with those thoughts I thought the other day because on one hand it feels...
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    Blaspheme Holy Spirit..... need help

    Hey again guys.... I've just been through a really stressful week with school and stuff, and I think it kind of set off the bad thoughts I have. A day or two ago I was sitting down with a friend smoking a cigar (don't know what yall think about that...) and all the sudden the topic of...
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    Blaspheme Holy Spirit..... need help

    Which of John Bunyan's books talks about his problems with scrupulosity? I think I'd like to read it.
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    Blaspheme Holy Spirit..... need help

    ...I had another really bad thought when I was almost asleep last night and it is really bothering me. Do you think we are less accountable when about what we think when we are almost asleep? It might take a while to get over this one.
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    Blaspheme Holy Spirit..... need help

    I also wanted to know exactly what sort of thoughts everyone else here has experienced... Over time I have sort of categorized the different sort of bad thoughts I have had. The first kind I ever experienced are also the ones that cause me the least grief. They are the ones that sort of "pop"...
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    Blaspheme Holy Spirit..... need help

    Do any of you especially have the thoughts when you are tired. For instance, I had a pretty bad one last night when I was laying in bed. I was barely even conscious, and I thought something to myself then became more alert and thought "Oh no, I should not have thought that" or something along...
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    Blaspheme Holy Spirit..... need help

    I just reread the passage that was bothering me, and it seems to make more sense. It is in Matthew 12, just after Jesus says the bit about blasphemy in verse 31. He says that the words we speak come out of our hearts, and that we will have to account for every careless word we have spoken. I...
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    Blaspheme Holy Spirit..... need help

    .....I guess what I was saying was that I meant to say something against Satan out loud, but I accidentally said something about the Holy Spirit out loud, and even though I know that I did not willfully blaspheme the Holy Spirit, I am worried because Jesus said that all careless words would be...