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Will God Forgive me

A group for members of all religions, or no religion at all, to talk about religion

  1. It doesnt need to mean that they are right :p
     
  2. Feelslikezoom23

    Feelslikezoom23 Fapstronaut

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    I just wanted to let you know in advance that if I don't respond to your messages its because I'm un well or I'm in hospital. I don't want you to get the wrong impression of me because I appreciate the time you've taken to look into my story.
     
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  3. yes please go to the hospital if you feel sick
     
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  4. I'm available to you any time. I pray you feel better soon!
     
  5. chicoclean

    chicoclean New Fapstronaut

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    my first time on this forum, and i see it is not easy to quit porn. will i succeed?
     
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  6. Success is 100% guaranteed if you are 100% committed to the process.
     
  7. allitnam

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    God always forgives us; that's not the thing we need to wonder about. Everytime I ask that question to myself I force me to think what would I feel if some friend came to me telling me his story about addiction to porn, and I immediatly know that I would support him no matter how many times he has fallen. If I can have such a good feeling, why wouldn't God feel the same (but bigger) towards me. If we know how to be mercyful, why God who is way much better, wouldn't feel good things toward his needy children. Don't doubt it.

    But, what are we doing to get out of this ? that's the question we need to ask. Why did we fail ? What can we do better next time ? What was our mistake ?... Our motivation shouldn't be guilty but desire to make it better. Forgive yourself, and continue, look forward, you derserve it ! I wish you the best my friend.
     
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  8. GetFreeStayFree

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    Repentance means you have godly sorrow of what you have done and then you turn away from that thing you did.

    God looks at your heart and then at Christ who sufferd and died on the cross to cleanse you of your sins and make you holy and righteous.
    God will see His Son inside you and say: 'this is my beloved Son in who I am well pleased!'

    Now you have repented, satan the tempter comes to attack you with lies in your mind. Like 'it feels good and pleasurable, just do it one more time and God will forgive you again.'
    And if you give in to it, satan wil take a stand between you and God and accuse you for what you have done. He will tell you 'you are worthless for not obeying God and you are filthy and that God will not forgive you because you are a hypocrite and a religieous pharasee.'

    These are lies because the moment you gave your life to Christ, He entred your heart and you became a child of God. He will not leave you just like that. No the Holy Spirit that He has given you will start to convince you to go back to Christ and to turn away from sin.

    If you keep on sinning your heart becomes dull and you start to get okay with it. Sin causes delusion.

    When that happens you distance yourself from the presence of the Holy Spirit and you start to believe your own lies.

    However if you truly repent you will get as close to God like you were in the beginning and He forgives and forgets all of your sin. So that you can enjoy fellowship with Him again and your life will start to fill with the fruit of the Spirit (love, peace, patience, joy, etc..) today, as long as it is today, we live under grace which means that it is still possible to repent, because God is so good.

    Don't believe your own lies.
    Don't believe the devils lies.
    Put your thrust in Christ and live a changed life.

    Maybe I don't have the life to back this up because I am struggeling too, but thruth and love must prevail!

    Let's escape this vicious circle of sinning by the help and power of the Holy Spirit that lives inside of us!

    God bless and warm greetings
     
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  9. It is respectful, I give him something that can make him stronger. I believe it
    I see a fellow rationalist there!

    Personally, religion made negative impact on my self esteem. I had constant feeling of being guilty. You dont go to church as other kids in your class? You are exceptional ! This praying thing? bullshit, it never happens what you ask.
    And the idea of confession. Idea that you go to the guy that may know you, and you tell him all your secrets. I had anxiety, days before this things. I couldnt understand that, If God is supposed to be everywhere why I cant just pray to him and confess in my soul? He hears my prayings but he doesnt hear my sins? I need to go to a guy and tell to him my sins so the God who is everwyhere will be like, "Ummm yeah, I forgive this dude"?

    And always had feeling of not telling everything, and again feeling of guilt. Because I lied to God !
    Hopefully at age 13 I started getting more knowledge and could free myself from that stuff.

    Year after year I gained more knowledge, I am glad I am free from that bullshit. And glad that my family is not obsessed with being religious. I am independent. I choose to believe in myself, I believe in wisdom and science.
    I am no longer hurting myself.

    Damn, generally I always were skeptical to this, I never understood how this can make someone happy at all, while it always made me feel bad. And nobody could reasonably explain me this religion. I saw not logical errors all the time I couldnt understand.

    Like, God is everywhere but you need to go to church to praise him.
    God is everywhere but he cant help if nazis are coming into your country.
    In the Bible Jesus told you cant be rich and go to heaven while all clergies are rich as fuck.
    There was so many saints and miracles in the past, but strangly in modern times (When everyone has a 4k and full hd cameras in their pockets) they no longer happen.
    Why its bad that I pursue succes in my life and I live pretty okay life without God but somewhat they tell me that I need God and he needs to be my 1st priority and I should be second. The fuck? I should put myself down?
    Yet nobody could reasonalby understand me, all I heard was that holy blah blah blah blah ...
     
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  10. Tuinuane

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    I have always had the same feeling so many time.Other times I just say I won't pray but it ends up getting worse.You need to stop doing it yourself rather appreciate it is only God who can give you victory.He is sad because He can see your suffering and He wants to help but you are not letting Him in. You have to partner with God to overcome it all.Otherwise if you rely on your own strength you will not see any progress. It takes power of the Holy spirit.
     
  11. I don't mean to detract from the OP's thread, but I did want to quickly respond just to say that there is an enormous difference between man-made religion, which it sounds you had a healthy dose of, and the freedom from religion that Jesus has provided, which maybe you have not experienced. Religion is easily dismissed; Jesus cannot so easily be dispensed with.

    I wish you much intriguing grappling with Him! :)
     
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  12. Jesus told that you should reap your eye off if it leads you to lust.
    I think I wont be listening to his teachings
     
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  13. Jesus also dismiss wealth.
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  14. Feelslikezoom23

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    I went to the hospital today. They offered some kind of initial basic treatment for my health condition. It probably won't work because I've tried it in the past.

    But back to the issue of P
    I completely agree. I don't know how I can expect to be in a Romantic relationship if I am struggling to leave the house.

    This is a huge part of my depression. This is why I resort to PMO.

    I watch porn to obtain the visual intimacy in the same way I could when I used to have a partner. I had a soft spot for POV romantic porn. I was never into the hardcore stuff on the internet.

    I even look at beautiful girls on instagram as a means to fulfil my need to feel close to a woman. Does this make sense...?
     
  15. Of course it makes sense. That is the struggle! If P was not enticing, it would be something we could easily set aside.

    The problem is that it is all lies. It gives the feeling of close intimacy, yet the reality is that you are alone in a room with a screen. You are substituting real intimacy for a fake. As you do so, you hurt your ability to experience actual intimacy when it does present itself. Because real human connection is messy and complicated, and our cheap plastic version of it is so much cleaner and under our own control. We grow to prefer it to the real thing if we spend too long there. We pine away for a reality that is increasingly not at all real. We believe the lie of PMO and deceive ourselves.

    So, if real human connection is what you most desire, then the very worst thing you can do is to engage in the false intimacy of PMO. It will deaden your sense of and taste for the real thing. As we say in recovery, better the ugly truth than a beautiful lie.

    But when the lie is so very beautiful, this can be very hard indeed. Which is why we need help in doing so!
     

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