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b84b91 No.630209

How do I turn my brain off? I try to be Christian and I just get caught in a neurotic cycle of thought. This has ended in me staring upon The Bible in complete horror. I think I come very close to committing the unpardonable sin just by thinking. I want the thoughts to end.

e8aef9 No.630219

>>630209

Become a monk

No need to worry about thoughts when you have given up your entire life to Christ


5b3162 No.630236

biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4&version=KJV


c6dc9a No.630269

Go to a psychologist. They can help you with ruminations, obsessions, compulsions, etc.


0c502f No.630307

Meditate on the life of the Savior. Not the complex, whole bible.


b84b91 No.630315

>>630307

regrettably the problem is just that. I don't simply understand on which terms to do that as I've been exposed to a lot of occult nonsense. Of course, I understand when something has the appearance of blatant sacrilege but there are more subtle considerations that I have to be very watchful of.


fff8c4 No.630319

>>630209

>>630315

Please be a little more specific.


4d54bb No.630340

Sounds like racing thoughts/anxiety. Maybe even some ocd? Heres a good rule of thumb: if youre worrying about having broken the unpardonable sin, you probably havent because your conscience is working (and by the sounds of it overworking). Exercise more and "do" more things to fill your day and the thoughts will naturally die down.


6af783 No.630346

Say the Jesus Prayer if you have a problem with sinful thoughts: Lord Jesus Christ have mercy of me a sinner. Just keep repeating it to yourself.


b84b91 No.630350

>>630319

Its not even something that can really be put into words. But the essence is that I need to turn my brain off. The problem is that maybe I'm a sociopath, just with a strong sense of principle and justice. I don't feel very much of what I experience. I wasn't Christian until very recently and the reason is because I almost grieved the holy spirit so thoroughly that I felt an overwhelming despair. In fact through metaphysical contemplation I unwittingly generated a sort of "despair code" in my mind. I laid down on my bed and realized my orientation in space was irrelevant, I was just following a pattern of behavior I'd become accustomed to. And this despair would come in waves, I would be released briefly and another worse episode would come upon me. Finally I saw the influence of Christ and broke down in tears. The next days I felt an overwhelming outpouring of love and joy (but not for awhile). But since then I just keep thinking, I'm being pulled away and it will be worse than before. I've repented and I've even fasted. I would say I haven't been overwhelmed by lust but I was even given over to sin in a dream (which feels like it may have been the breaking point). I know this though, the intellect is the essence of evil. Purely satanic. That's the whole paradigm we live under, a mind that is grotesquely evil but ultimately we all have one. The fruit of knowledge of good and evil encompasses free will. There's no extra "free will" to work with. The only free will that is good is total surrender and obedience to God. Don't personify God, that is a satanic trick. Of course anyone will fear someone they've painted as a man, not operating under transcendent principles. This is all the benefit of my period with the occult, was really appreciating that God is a tremendous mystery. Try to approach him on terms of the intellect and he will become increasingly horrifying. Though I have an ultimately very jewish mentality, I am not a kabbalist. I don't push past that fear with anger and conceit and pry at even more of the mystery to apprehend it in my mind. God can only be understood by way of the heart. This is something many Christians haven't realized because even they have the vision of the man in the sky, which cannot possibly do the ultimate any justice.


2ebb23 No.630351

>>630209

This happens to me a lot too. I was on the brink of thinking that you can't be saved if you sin after baptism.


b84b91 No.630357

>>630351

I believe as long as Christ, the passion can soften you, you are never beyond redemption. Sin in a typical sense isn't even the greatest risk to your reception to the work of the holy spirit. Thought is.


d6b26c No.630396

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>>630209

Listen to some Christian music, OP. It helps the heart physically and the Spiritual body.


b84b91 No.630425

I had a powerful experience today. I prayed for these deceiving spirits to be taken away. I was caught in spiritual warfare. I felt the resistance as I tried to surrender to Jesus. My mind would think about all these excuses not to, the occult was more damaging than I could know, creating all manner of deception. But the worst was that I would feel pain and anguish and wander around and satan would say "oh we can finish this later". And eventually I looked at myself in the mirror and saw an unimaginable pathetic evil. It felt as though I was descending into hell. I screamed a lot and then eventually I fell of my knees and this indescribable sensation came upon me and then I looked in the mirror again and realized Jesus had saved me from tremendous darkness. I felt the holy spirit move through me. I looked in the mirror again and I saw the innocence of a small child. My heart has been renewed. I'm still fighting these evil thoughts, however they appeal to logic or man's sense of justice. I will tell you friends though, this is no small matter. You may not have descended as deeply as I did but ask to see the truth and you will see the evil on your own countenance. Then you will understand how dead in our sins we are. Ask for the holy spirit to come over you. Its there for those who call out in despair. May the Lord bless you.


b84b91 No.630426

>>630425

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