OCD is destroying my faith... HELP!

[followJesus1811]

Yeah some days are harder than others. The fact that you hate these atheistic thoughts is proof that the Holy Spirit is at work. You FEEL separated from God but it is not true!

"the Lord I near to te brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit" Psalm 34:18

He is near. He loves. He cares. Hold on to the truth of God's character.

 

[TheWorriedOne]

So I'm saved?

 

[followJesus1811]

Romans 3:21-26

In Christ you are forever redeemed! No questions!

 

[cmsracing]

On a lighter note, have you ever really thought much about atheisim. You want to talk about a doctrine with a lot of holes in it.

 

[raven1]

I don't want to have adoration for atheists i just do. What about people who want to believe in God but can't. Not everyone has OCD because OCD is ruminating not the doubt itself. People say OCD makes you not able to believe what others can but there is no test to prove that my doubt is OCD or not. No 100 percent test that says this is OCD no worries. So therefore I do need to be afraid.

 

[Christian-Catholic]

My OCD was bothering me too today horribly. Like I didnt have any thoughts but I felt separarted from God and it bothered me. Do you know what I mean? Did any of you still experience anxiety without thoughts? Then I had atheistic thoughts and I hate them! I want God but I'm tired of these thoughts going to my head making sense, making it harder for me to believe and causing me anxiety.

Yes worried one I also the anxiety without the thoughts and that anxiety is usually your body being used to being in anxiety so often over the thoughts that its on auto-pilot. The fact that you hate your thoughts is one of the clues that it is ocd, the other clue is that it keeps coming up all day long, cmsracing made that point perfectly.

 

[Christian-Catholic]

I don't want to have adoration for atheists i just do. What about people who want to believe in God but can't. Not everyone has OCD because OCD is ruminating not the doubt itself. People say OCD makes you not able to believe what others can but there is no test to prove that my doubt is OCD or not. No 100 percent test that says this is OCD no worries. So therefore I do need to be afraid.

Raven, we are all veterans here of this disorder. This is how we know its ocd and not just doubting.

""I don't want to have adoration for atheists i just do" This is also ocd because you dont want these thoughts. Atheists are usually are very devious about their worldvioew because they will tweak it a little here and there to escape dealing with any evidence that goes against it. They are just rebellious people who are rebelling against God and want to mask it by saying they use reason. Look at their forums, they call themselves free thinkers, rational thinkers. They believe if they repeat those slogans long enough that they will suddenly turn into rational, true free thinkers.

 

[raven1]

No one is answering my question about how we can have certainty about who has OCD and doesn't. I know doubters at work they say they would like to believe but doubt. They dont have OCD that I know of why? because doubt he exists isn't OCD.

 

[cmsracing]

Hebrews 11:1 " Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen".
To believe is a choice. I've never seen God's face. I've never heard the audible voice of God. But I have seen the miracle of a newborn's birth. I have experienced the love in my heart every time I see one of my grandchildren. I have seen the wonderous things of earth that I CHOOSE to believe God made. Honestly, I know and have had the thought that the exsistance of a supreme being is pretty far fetched. But for me any other explanation of these things is ridiculous. You can't look around and see the beauty of creation and believe this is some random incident or freak occurance, a "BIG BANG". So therefore I choose to believe in God.
You just need a hint of faith. Even the fact that you would like to believe is enough. When you sat down in the chair you are now sitting in now, you didn't have 100% assurance it was going to hold you. But you had that bit of faith that it would. Do you know for 100% fact that the light in your refrigerator goes out when you close the door? The faith that it takes for these small things is enough for God.

 

[raven1]

Explain this throughout my life I have had times where I should be dead. I always still believed in God and heaven. A year and a half ago had a scare then I started doubting heaven and gods existence. This makes me doubt God exists because he could make me like I was with 100 percent faith or he chooses not to and I am chosen for hell. I have adoration for atheists saying they may be right. I even like the free thinking person idea. Did I ask to be like this no but in a way I don't want to believe in God. I never chose this. I never want to go to hell. I have no choices. I thought this was OCD and maybe I was forgiven that it was fear driving OCD because it all started with doubt in heaven then moved to doubt in God. I am so scared heaven isn't there. Now though I think maybe there is no God but an afterlife. So that blows that theory away. I, me , myself and I doubt he exists not OCD.

 

[cmsracing]

God never choose anyone to go to hell. It's His will that none should perish. Where a person spends eternity is their choice.
Yes God could make you to have 100% faith, just as He could heal someone with a terminal illness. But most times he doesn't. It wasn't meant for us to know why.
Raven1, have you ever seen an M.D. about this/

 

[raven1]

Yes I have but nothing they say helps me I have been on at least twenty different meds. I don't how you choose when you doubt. That makes no sense. Plus I am a evil person. You also have to want to begood to get into heaven.

 

[cmsracing]

I wish you well. Sorry I couldn't help you.

 

[TheWorriedOne]

Hey I had a better day today Like I had thoughts and anxieties but they weren't as bad.

 

[Andrew2737]

That's really cool to hear WorriedOne! I have been praying for you. I'm glad to hear that God blessed you today!

Raven, don't focus so much on if this doubt is from OCD or not. Either way it's doubt, but it won't make you go to hell. When I struggle with doubting thoughts, I pray that God will show me His truth and I abide in His Word. That really is the most important thing to be doing to get help for this. His Word will help more than doctors or advice or medicine or anything. I'll be praying for you.

 

[TheWorriedOne]

Hey guys I keep having this weird desire to sin I'm guessing it's my OCD or temptation because I'm saying no to it but now I'm extremely scared to sin at all. I'm also worried about falling away from God in the future especially because of this temptation or ocd thing to sin I know the Bible says to take one day at a time but I'm worried I'll fall away at some point I'll fall away.

 

[TheWorriedOne]

I keep having these doubts again I just feel like I'm losing my faith I keep having thoughts like get real there is no after life I feel like I'm on the verge of believeing them what do I do?

 

[TheWorriedOne]

I don't know what to do anymore I keep having thoughts saying there is no God and When you die nothing happens when you die how can I believe again?

 

[Accune]

Plead to the Lord your problem in the name of Jesus.

 

[TheWorriedOne]

I'm trying to like I feel a little better I just don't know anymore...