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Your not athiest and your ocd thoughts are lies. There is no need to repent as long as you know and believe in God. Ocd will try and fool you but you can beat it because Christ lives in you. And hes for you, not against you. He understands when you are confused and have thoughts you dont want and he doesnt hold them against you.

If your truly concerned, go to God in prayer first as your number one option and tell Him your concerns. He will hear you and he will answer you.

Your not athiest. Doubting doesnt make you one. Your mind is truly fooling you but remeber who you are in Christ.

God bless you. Amen.

Hebrews was meant for the Jews. You have to put it into context. He's talking about those who knew Christ and fell away. Hebrews scared me when I first started reading it. Psalms is good. Alot of love in there. Try not to exclude but don't over do it when you read Rev: and other correcting verses. I can hardly stumach revelations. But, thats because it seeps into my dreams and I see alot of symbolism.

Hi Brittney,

You said:

"Do I ask God to forgive me for being an atheist even though I never stopped trying to know God just in case or do I ignore the thoughts. All I can think about is Hebrews 6:4 and I am concerned that I am one of those people it is talking about."

If you were an atheist I highly doubt you would even have these concerns, because an atheist does not believe that God exists.
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Acts 22:16 "And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’"

Sorry your having a hard time with this.

Hi Brittney, First take a deep breath and be comforted in this; many of us with OCD who love Christ have had these same types of obsessions. So it's certainly not unusual, but that doesn't diminish how distressing it is.
The thing you'll need to learn to do is to stop "struggling" with the thoughts. Attending to them in any way will only make the worse. They feel like an emergency but if you treat them like an emergency then your brain will continue to have a hard time letting go of them. Yes... you definitely should ignore them even though that will make you feel anxious. Do you understand how to use ERP when the thoughts crop up? It's good that they've only been bothering you for a few days because the sooner you just let them be there without attending to them the sooner your brain will let go of them.
Praying for you,
Mitzi

BrittneyNT14 said:

So the past couple of days I have been dealing with a lot of really bad doubtful thoughts that I reject as soon as they pass through my head and I keep struggling with these thoughts that tell me that I am an atheist because I have the these. What do I do? Do I ask God to forgive me for being an atheist even though I never stopped trying to know God just in case or do I ignore the thoughts. All I can think about is Hebrews 6:4 and I am concerned that I am one of those people it is talking about. I have been suffering from OCD since November and I am worried that I am hopeless

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gracealone said:

Hi Brittney, First take a deep breath and be comforted in this; many of us with OCD who love Christ have had these same types of obsessions. So it's certainly not unusual, but that doesn't diminish how distressing it is.
The thing you'll need to learn to do is to stop "struggling" with the thoughts. Attending to them in any way will only make the worse. They feel like an emergency but if you treat them like an emergency then your brain will continue to have a hard time letting go of them. Yes... you definitely should ignore them even though that will make you feel anxious. Do you understand how to use ERP when the thoughts crop up? It's good that they've only been bothering you for a few days because the sooner you just let them be there without attending to them the sooner your brain will let go of them.
Praying for you,
Mitzi

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just saying ditto to this. Our instinct is to argue with such thoughts but as grace pointed out, with OCD that usually makes them more of a problem. Take it from someone who has been there, it's hard to "out-argue" OCD driven thoughts.

To everyone.

God knows the difference between you and your OCD. Repenting and running to God is a form of reassurance. Which fuels an endless cycle of OCD. Instead of doing that, try to accept the thought as a thought and give it no more importance than that. God doesn't want us creating a ritual out of Him. He knows our hearts, He loves us...he wants us to have enough faith that we don't need to run to him over and over and when we find that, we will start hitting OCD back with God by our side.