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Yesterday I was about to reply to a post from a person with a problem with scrupulosity when company showed up. Now I can’t find the thread, but hopefully the OP will read this. I too suffer from scrupulosity, but God has pretty much given me control over it. Of course, prayer is always an appropriate response to the problem as it cannot be conquered with out the hand of God. I was fortunate enough to have a co-worker, who later became my best friend, who was instrumental in helping me get my thinking “normal”. He was a guy whom I respected as an ethical christian and someone I could speak to confidentially. A person who suffers from scrupulosity views the world from an “unreal” perspective and tends to create sin where there isn’t any. What helped me immeasurably was to bring my moral dilemmas to him, ask him how he viewed them, and if he considered them sinful. After talking with him I would be able to comprehend how a “normal” christian person would interpret the situation I was dealing with and I could then make a clearer decision concerning the morality of it.
Of course, I never rely solely on the opinions of any person concerning morality and sin, and I always go to scripture as the final word. But it’s often impossible to judge these things through the “unreal” perception of a scrupulous mind. Someone who has never experienced scrupulosity can’t begin to comprehend the extreme anxiety that accompanies it–living in constant terror of going to hell for eternity. I considered suicide to relieve the misery, but couldn’t even do that because I would end up in hell in worse misery if I did.
Anyway, after many conversations with my friend and reading the many bible verses talking about God’s love for his children, I have come to see God as my loving father. He treats us as we would our own children, but better. Of course, I recognize sin in my life, and I also still have some problems with creating sin where it doesn’t exist, but I now am living in God’s love. Thank God, he has taken away that terrible fear and anxiety and replaced it with his love.
So, whoever it is who made that prayer request or anyone else with a problem with scrupulosity, I hope this helps and I will continue to pray for your healing.
Of course, I never rely solely on the opinions of any person concerning morality and sin, and I always go to scripture as the final word. But it’s often impossible to judge these things through the “unreal” perception of a scrupulous mind. Someone who has never experienced scrupulosity can’t begin to comprehend the extreme anxiety that accompanies it–living in constant terror of going to hell for eternity. I considered suicide to relieve the misery, but couldn’t even do that because I would end up in hell in worse misery if I did.
Anyway, after many conversations with my friend and reading the many bible verses talking about God’s love for his children, I have come to see God as my loving father. He treats us as we would our own children, but better. Of course, I recognize sin in my life, and I also still have some problems with creating sin where it doesn’t exist, but I now am living in God’s love. Thank God, he has taken away that terrible fear and anxiety and replaced it with his love.
So, whoever it is who made that prayer request or anyone else with a problem with scrupulosity, I hope this helps and I will continue to pray for your healing.
