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Anxiety about my child being chosen

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Ok this one is a very strange one

I’ve gotten married a few months back I love my beautiful wife
However I’ve had this big anxiety that god has chosen our child and I must do everything I can do make sure no “sperm” is wasted
Forgive me for being so crude
I keep thinking if this was the case it wouldn’t matter what I do the child would be born by gods power anyway
But then I get anxiety that it’s out of gods control and I have to do this or the world will fall into space or something

I know this might sound ridiculous but my mind works like this unfortunately
 

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Ok this one is a very strange one

I’ve gotten married a few months back I love my beautiful wife
However I’ve had this big anxiety that god has chosen our child and I must do everything I can do make sure no “sperm” is wasted
Forgive me for being so crude
I keep thinking if this was the case it wouldn’t matter what I do the child would be born by gods power anyway
But then I get anxiety that it’s out of gods control and I have to do this or the world will fall into space or something

I know this might sound ridiculous but my mind works like this unfortunately

And who is it that will determine when, if your wife will get pregnant?

Do you know how long sperm lives? Are you planing on collecting all your sperm and supplying it to your wife!

May I suggest that you get counselling for your anxieties now be fore you have a child and real reasons to worry.
If you cannot see how rediculous your worries are you need help.
Talk to your wife, talk to your minister.

Once you have a self destructive child doing its best to poison, electrocute, drown, be run over, fall down stairs, trap limbs in doors you will learn what worry is.
 
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Ok this one is a very strange one

I’ve gotten married a few months back I love my beautiful wife
However I’ve had this big anxiety that god has chosen our child and I must do everything I can do make sure no “sperm” is wasted
Forgive me for being so crude
I keep thinking if this was the case it wouldn’t matter what I do the child would be born by gods power anyway
But then I get anxiety that it’s out of gods control and I have to do this or the world will fall into space or something

I know this might sound ridiculous but my mind works like this unfortunately
You need to get control of your thoughts. I suggest that you read "War on the Saints" by Jesse Penn Lewis.
 
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Aaron V

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I worry that it will be a chosen sperm and it will come when we engage in sex so I better make sure it happens you know?
There’s nothing in the bible about this so I feel easy but then I worry what if it’s out of gods control

but yeah I do plan on talking to someone about it
 
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Ok this one is a very strange one

I’ve gotten married a few months back I love my beautiful wife
However I’ve had this big anxiety that god has chosen our child and I must do everything I can do make sure no “sperm” is wasted
Forgive me for being so crude
I keep thinking if this was the case it wouldn’t matter what I do the child would be born by gods power anyway
But then I get anxiety that it’s out of gods control and I have to do this or the world will fall into space or something

I know this might sound ridiculous but my mind works like this unfortunately

By not having sex you're still technically 'wasting' sperm because it builds up and, by choice or not, it will come out, hence 'wet dreams' etc.

You're overthinking it.
 
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Aaron V

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Like I guess one way to put it

god knows and plans we will have sex Saturday and Saturday comes and we engage in it
However for some reason I don’t put the right sperm in or all of it and it fails
I worry it’s out of gods control and my fears will happen
 
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