They hate it and they repent of it. Emotional reasoning is a lie that says, because I FEEL it, it must be true.. The other issue is very embarrassing and very troubling to me. I wish all of the nonsense would just go away. Its my own fears and anxiety that say otherwise. sorry.. It has gotten so bad that I actually struggle to read the Bible not because I dont want to. I was finally out of my room and able to get out again. You don't want these thoughts, and you don't like them. I did break my promise but in doing so had the sudden blasphemous thought to say 'fuck off to the holy spirit' and then felt rebellious that even if it was unforgiveable to say 'fuck off to the holy spirit rather than not masturbate then I would say this. And, how can I know for sure I don't have it? This is what the scribes assumed when they heard Jesus claiming to forgive sins. I dont want to give but Im scared that I have. The litmus test to know if you are a truly reprobate person or merely a scrupulous person is to ask how often you come back to God to seek reconciliation. I thank God that I found this article. When we are tempted, we feel dirty and guilty. Each repeat session is an attempt to solve this bad feeling so that you grant yourself permission to move on. He will not deny or blaspheme his own work and since he lives in you he will keep you from doing the same. My blasphemous thoughts were a lot about the Holy Spirit and bad thoughts about Him. If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. What Is Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? | Ray Fowler .org And believe me, God sees your heart and knows it better than you know yourself. And thats what exposure therapy helps you to do. God bless you in your journey to recovery! hi my name Silvestar i have these unwanted blasphemous thought it started on this year from 5 January till now i have been struggling i seek reassurance from my friends i try to stop them but I cannot I try and try but I feel exhausted it effect my everyday life and I can do anything I just try my Saviour and I hope I would get freedom oneday and I hope God is always on time, what would I do I have an exam next month but I can concentrate to my studies. When I gave myself to the Lord Jesus Christ, I felt like the heart of the Holy Spirit ? I met a muslim person and always thought as long as people respect each others religions theres no problems. But, when I was reading about the Chemosh story, those intrusive thoughts came. Not in any single case. Please feel better! But now that I think of it, The Bible says I was and I am39; still and will be forever freed from sin not bound to son. WE must be sure we were born again; WE must make sure we can understand/categorize/analyze our sins; WE must prevent sin in our own strength. What is blasphemy of the Holy spirit according to Christianity? Do you see yourself as dangerous and somehow more powerful than God? For me its not just about the Holy Spirit but also about denying or rejecting God/Christ, worshipping satan, killing myself and so on. Copyright 2023, Bible Study Tools. Hi Amy, Please dont feel bad about telling your parents. Be of good courage and keep pressing forward! a few months later my baptism certificate fell off the wall. Speaking vile words or curses against God is a form of blasphemy. 2. our Lord knows your true heart, He can discern between intrusive thoughts and your true heart for Him. Dr. R.C. Blasphemous Thoughts and Unforgivable Sin: A Hell Of Fear These thoughts would come during sincere prayer and hinder them. The same way you changed your mind from Christianity to Muslim, you can change your mind back. We must seek God (this is a CHOICE, not a feeling) and if/when He wants, He will reward us with good feelings. Their claims were unfounded on logic and were instead instigated by an unwillingness to accept Christ. Wow, this has really helped me alot, i have been have this unwanted thoughts to God and the people i interact with, and as a result i have always felt ashamed and atimes shy to speak, gence a reduced self-esteem. God is the author and finisher of your faith Hebrews 12:2-4. And I think about Him and His goodness and perfection, and it calms me down. My point here is that God doesnt expect us to have a complete, 100% explanatory grasp of truth, because this is not possible. I thought I was going crazy. Its gotten to the point where I began to overthink and literally would feel condemnation and make me believe that I had desires of other stuff and make my question am I really like that ? Here is the key phrase: it is a state [of] willful determined opposition to the present power of the Holy Spirit. Then he gives (as one of those other places in the New Testament) 1 John 5:16, which says, If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. I think theres different fazes to this . First, you need not to over analyze the Bible & Christianity. He can never lose so why would He even bother giving you the Holy Spirit if He is going to lose? Treason occurs when you try to challenge His role as boss and become the boss yourself. Please, please, if you are in danger, take yourself to the hospital or ask a family member for help. What further need do we have of witnesses? It takes time to have complete restoration. This experience isn't just for non-Christian religions or cults. Mockery can be deadly to our intrusive thoughts. />. Christians may worry that they will commit the unforgivable sin, but they should not fret. Tim Maas Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army Commentaries on Matthew 12:22-32, Mark 3:22-30, and Luke 12:10 that I have read (and that have been very comforting to me) have indicated that the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit to which Jesus was referring was a sin that could only have been committed during His earthly life, when His opponents personally witnessed the . This was a rebuke to Sennacherib, the king who openly challenged Yahwehs ability to save Israel from their enemies. Read the Bible to learn more about God and His desire for how we should live, don't overthink it. Certainly, the idea that blasphemy is merely cursing God or offending the Holy Spirit is a very narrow definition. Blasphemy, in this usage, literally means to put yourself in Gods place. (His mothers namewasShelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.) Thank you so much. Now I worry that if I dont do this or that or if I commit this sin or if I eat that, God will not help me through this and will allow me to suffer. Hi, Lu-Andro! Let me share one secret that will make this process easier. We all love God and all we want is to think right of Him with conflicting thoughts. I have thoughts that say so and so believe in the devil or have done something bad when i know all is not true. i dont want to turn away from god, i know im not any of those things, i am nothing without god, god is god and no one can take his place it just really hurts and im scaerd im gonna come to a point where i dont want to be with god anymore..im not as emotional when i think about these thoughts as i used to be i dont know what to do and im scared. Ohhh thank you sooo much.. that gave me a little bit of assurance.. but i would like to ask something again hehe.. if i knew to myself that i did not do something wrong.. like i keep remembering it and i keep having the same results in my mind that i didn't do it but i'm still anxious whether i did it or not.. does it usually mean that i've done that thing or haven't.. and right now i'm trying my best not to do the thing i'm afraid of doing.. and at the end of the day i re-evaluate myself and based on my memory i didn't do something bad but i still get nervous.. i hope you would be able to explain this for me because i really am getting a hard time.. and thank yoooou so muuuuuch.. And what if you made someone do something bad but they are not aware that it was bad and did it.. will they be punished for this or not? But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. One day I was talking to God about how I was feeling due to intrusive thoughts. I now just have to convince myself that it is satan doing this and not myself. Instead, they are signs of a mental health condition. I spoke to MANY people about my problem. I still struggle as I have more time on my hands I was able to beat the physical rituals touching, counting things like that. She ended up moving away. God has given me in site through His Word but still having difficulty. The Pharisees by their words were denying the true work of the Holy Spirit. Seems when I am reading my Bible it pops up in my head, when I am praying it comes up in my head. Can you Blaspheme the Holy Spirit Mentally? hey,recently ive been having really really evil thoughts about Jesus which are sexual i feel shame explaining but i just need help,they include Jesus doing something to me that is sexual and a crime i think you get the idea and now that i have thought about jt its like its in my brain now and its labelled if you know what i mean(its the R word and i have so much shame and guilt i jusr need help i hate myself) its like it wont go thats now what i think of Jesus even though it definitely not i pray all the time asking for help and i read my Bible and they just come back ,im still young and ive never had a mental illness and im scared that these are my thoughts because its like i encourage them but i dont want to i dont want to label Jesus like that i Love him and hes my saviour im just scared im an evil person that doesnt deserve Gods love at all Thank you for the article aswell it was really helpful, Hey,God understands and loves you he will get you through this keep having faith and PRAY PRAY PRAY, Thank you so much I have been trying to find answers on why I have been having blasphemous thoughts in my head and when I found this article it gave me all the answers to my Question thank you so much, Hello jaimie, please help I accidentally blasphemed Jesus, so basically a blasphemous thought came into my head saying something really bad to Jesus and Holy Spirit and my family, so I try to ignore it and praise Jesus I know this sounds weird but the thought was the opposite of this I want Jesus to go to heaven I accidentally said the opposite (I think you may know what I accidentally said) (the blasphemous thought) I freaked out and asked for forgiveness will god forgive me? For instance (Im going to use a silly example so that I dont trigger any readers): lets say that Suzy is a devoted follower of the god Chemosh. Then we have this word, but. That means theres a big difference now. That's one the other one was I went into extreme into changing being a Christian into converting and saying out loud what they wanted to hear. I feel like I am blinded or something. I got angry. For the first question, my views on God is he is compassionate. I want these thoughts to stop. This is a free group and I believe it is mostly focused on raising awareness for religious OCD and giving a safe space for people to share their struggles and be heard. He hears your cries for help, and already has an immense rescue team working on your behalf. It would just be a matter of searching for OCD specialists and then sorting out the ones who are familiar with religious OCD themes. So, automatically, the fear of blasphemous thoughts seems so much more sensible than the fear of yellow. Gob bless you". Isnt that amazing? He will never lose no matter what and even the peoples failures in the Bible such as King David, Paul and even Jacob has brought people hope. God is your life. I'm going to swim in this new found insight and see how things go.. And I might try the exposure therapy.. I thank you for describing this for me and helping me to not feel like a monster that is dammed for hell. This constitutes the U in our acronym RUMP. I want to believe He has, I mean from the things I've heard and read, that God forgives whoever truly repents but then I find it hard to believe he forgive a sinner like me. Knowing what to DO about them is another. It would be hard for me to say, because everyone is unique! I feel like God is with me in this situation but I still fell helpless and confused most times. Don't force the belief because that can cause you to fight the belief inwardly. So I'm still stuck, it's like OCD got me captured. She broke it off because of church and God, so I started going to her church hoping to win her back. I had been doing much better then some of it started rearing its ugly head. Because my thought patterns are based on blasphemous thoughts and it's difficult to ignore them. I was stuck with a job I hated. I know that is why my mind completely cleared, because I let it all go and trusted God's word. I was prayed over at church and I finally understand what it means to lay it all down at Jesus feet and trust it all to him. God, YOUR Heavenly Father, Counselor, Friend, and Creator knows EVERYTHING about You. Hi Sienna, Thank you for your comment. If they did, I would just sit down and think up a million dollars for myself. I really want to repent from this scrupulosity but i feel like overtime, my thoughts gets worse, to the extreme that I'm starting to think I've done worse than the scribes and the pharisees. The Holy Spirit translates our confused thoughts into a beautiful aroma before the throne of God. God always takes peoples failures and made them for good. At the root of it we need to discern that these unwanted thoughts are largely from a mental health disorder, not from our spiritual experience with God. If you truly are guilty of doing that sin, then you wouldn't care about God at all. The same occurs of course whenever I come to a spot in scripture that talks about the Holy Spirit. Its really frustrating. Physical Health still remains as it's own area within the entire Recovery area. The Facebook page is called "Christianity and Anxiety Disorders - Let's Talk." I would just like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you who have responded to this. I know I have been diagnosed with religious OCD. For the the past year I've been struggling with intrusive thoughts and now it getting worse. Anyways do you think Im ok? If your results indicated that your blasphemous thoughts are likely caused by moral OCD, this article is for you. The second lesson for you to learn is that you need to ask God to help you to be bold about your beliefs, You sound like you may be kind of young, maybe under 35 years old. Hi, Destiny, I think its quite common for intrusive thoughts to involve questions of reality. We may wonder if the important elements of our faith are fake, if reality is fake, and basically everything that possible to question, we question. I'm trying my hardest and my best to hold on I just need to remember that Jesus won't let me go! Im so glad to hear that youve improved so much in recent days. In essence, the reason why they wont be forgiven is because they can never come to the place where they can ask for it, because they have rejected the Holy Spirit. It's not easy living with these thoughts and the fear of eternal damnation that comes as a result of them however I thank you all for the reassurement. And stuff like that, but I keep telling myself God did not give us a spirit of fear. I am depressed and unable to enjoy even innocent entertainment like certain TV shows that make me laugh or books with intriguing plots and characters. It is the Spirit who works in the lives of unbelievers as well, testifying to the truth of who Jesus is to lead them to repentance and salvation. How can I stop them! I need to be free. Two years later to day and I can really testify that the Lord will never leave you nor forsake you !! But sometimes as I apologise the more the bad thoughts pop out. I know exactly what you mean. It was profane and I had been telling him too stop but I smiled at the joke knowing I shouldn't have but I was telling him to stop as that happened. However, another option, rather than verbalizing Suzys blasphemous thoughts directly, is to undercut their power by indirectly exposing her to a less black-and-white worldview. The way to deal with this is to not analyze the thought and treat it with indifference. Before you continue reading, it will be important to have your blasphemous thoughts results in mind as you read this guide. God knows these thoughts are not coming from you! Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. I see Him as my therapist. Jaimie, This is very help full to me I believe I will be clean from this thought Because I am a daughter of holy trinity, I also have these blasphemous thoughts about god or Holy Spirit, but they bother me for the whole day, they dont ever stop, so I usually find myself repeating words saying I love god shaking my head or even trying to harm my self to make them stop, its very trying and depressing, Im not how I used to be when I first started to get real with god, I was happy peaceful and free, but now I feel Im in a dark dungeon and cant get out, sometimes, sometime I even accident blurted some thoughts about Jesus and the Holy Spirit trying to stop these thoughts which made the whole situation even worse Im glad to know there is people that go through the same thing I do, and this article was very helpful I hope these thoughts that we have can stop one day, god bless . Jesus died so we can be reconciled to God. The core of this approach involves Biblical imaging that is, choosing a specific scene in Scripture and mentally placing yourself there. I don't know where they came from because it just started some months ago, out of nowhere. In this case, the best thing you can do is speak truth into your life. I know it was a mistake, but I also know that You still love me. In terms of Dr Osborne's method, do we transfer the intrusive thought to God once off and then maintain trust as the thought returns? After I finally was exhausted, frustrated, and had literally no one who related to me. Is this scrupulosity? Today I prayed that He would help me and guide me to His Word and the passages in this article have helped put my mind at ease. Certainly! What Is Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and Is This Sin Unforgivable. A few days later, I must have been really crazy because I thought I was Jesus. Does this verse even APPLY to us? Knowing that the enemy has to ask for permission before attacking me brings me hope. What Every Christian Should Know about the Protestant Reformation. Gods got this, even when we feel like we dont. It is hard for me to share these things, but I really do desire to be set free. Most of us on planet earth dont have all our ducks in a row. Despite their wrong doings, God still forgave them, cleansed them, and used them. Im glad to hear your thoughts have been getting better. There are a few verses we can use to understand this phenomenon and help you reduce your fears. They are false alarms. The other thing to notice is specifically what it is that does grieve the Spirit. Thank you! You have given me hope. I cannot willfully curse God. Again, this idea is echoed in Psalm 139: OLord,You have searched me and knownme.You know my sitting down and my rising up;Youunderstand my thought afar off.Youcomprehend my path and my lying down,And are acquainted with all my ways. I said the sinners prayer, was taught about the church, and was baptized a year later. Oh whats that? When someone has a true revelation of who God is, it becomes very difficult to take his name in vain, because they develop a deep reverence for him. every now and then i have urges to reject jesusbut i dont want to. This cookie is used to track the user's interaction with facebook chat widget. Also try agreeing with the thought in sarcasm and mocking it. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name,His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. But because I constantly get horrible thoughts whenever I read it. Hi, i wish i could sound enthusiastic but ive been feeling very down due to unwanted thoughts about God, ive been dealing with these for almost a month now, i had repented 3 years ago and its been all good until now, i started reading the bible, praying, and wanting to be closer to god.
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