Rash Vows: Theologically Speaking

[Hermit7]

According to the Bible, somewhere in the old testament, if one makes a rash vow to God, he could confess his sin to the priest and offer a sacrafice, which from what I could read, releases him from the vow.

As far as I could gather, one of the things that define a rash vow is if the vow itself involves something sinful.

So, theologically speaking, if I made a vow concerning something, with the cost of trading my salvation, this would be a sinful vow, right? Therefore a "rash" one?

So for such vows, I could simply annul them, or ask God to annul them, be confessing them to Jesus, right?

-Hermit

 

[Hermit7]

Anyone?

 

[lilipunzel]

Confession about sins and vows must be assessed as helpful or not helpful in the context of an anxiety disorder such as OCD. Often in the context of oCD confessing is a compulsion which will increase the anxiety and the obsessions. OCD is not a disorder of rational thinking, it is a disorder of disordered thinking and mjst be addressed based on evidence based intervention not common sense knowledge. The treatment of most anxiety disorders is counterintuitive which is why it is importnat to work with an xpert in the area