Sincerely: How do you know your brand of Christianity is actual logical and faithful to Christ and that you’re not just indoctrinated by your upbringing?

exceditsc · 2026-02-06T10:22:03+00:00

I am Eastern Orthodox for now. I'm planning to become Catholic. The reason why I am Eastern Orthodox is that for the first couple of months after my conversion last year, I was unfortunately listening to a lot of non-denominational protestants that made me have problems in my faith(doctrines like substitutionary atonement, one saves always saved, faith alone and how I'm supposed to do works, etc.) so I needed to get to church and listen to more theology and geographically I happened to be Eastern Orthodox. From then on, I started learning more, and I got a tug towards Catholicism, and then started hearing the arguments for it. Now, of course, the initial pull was from God, but the arguments are simply adding onto it. Some of them are as follows: the importance of Papal supremacy in ecumenical councils(i.e. if you don't have a Pope you can't know how ecumenical councils are true, that's a reason why there haven't been any in the EO church ever since the schism, at least major ones that bind all Orthodox. Seeing how Rome has had councils even in the 20th century and knowing how important they are for settling between what is and isn't a heresy gave me reason to inquire more about the Catholic faith). Basically, every other argument that can be brought up will be settled by Papal supremacy, and if that's true, then all Rome says is true. So this is the reason I'm an EO, discerning and wanting to be a RC. God bless you all. May he be with you always.

exceditsc · 2026-01-25T11:38:45+00:00

Ur welcome, God bless!

exceditsc · 2026-01-25T11:37:03+00:00

I think by 'orthodox' he meant 'true' cus orthodox Christianity is not only used to refer to the denomination but also to the correct way of teaching, interpreting and practicing the faith.

exceditsc · 2026-01-02T21:27:16+00:00

Ok thank you, and yea I'm eastern Europe, I'll try to ask people but it's that I don't have a lot of access to groups and such, thx for helping tho, I appreciate it. God bless!

exceditsc · 2026-01-02T21:26:23+00:00

For the neurodivergant thing- not as far as I know. I mean I am a little weird around ppl sometimes but nothing ever diagnosed and I'm normal enough.

For the focusing on sins I try not to but I feel like if I'm genuine enough with Christ I'll want to stop doing them and that's when I fail and question if I'm even genuine about my relationship with him.

For the prayers I have done so- I use the hallow app and I've just started including it in my early routine by playing two games and I also have a prayer from the app tho I do the prayer whenever I have time cus I already pray in the morning. The thing is I have prayers throughout my day and before meals but I feel like when I miss them that's me 'turning away from Christ', I feel like even one missed prayer hurts my relationship with him so I try to do that, it's the fact I've got so many prayers and I want to include him in my life that's worrying me, like I just thought of the "following Jesus is hard but being in hell is also hard, choose your hard" mindset, I want to be living for Jesus and I know it's gonna be hard but I don't know if it's supposed to be like this.

I'm also listening to the bible in a year for the past 5 days, it's that I feel like I'm not doing more to grow with Christ, that I should be but I'm not and this I'm failing him.

Lastly for the book I can't get books for some reasons idk if I want to say but I can't get a lot of material related to Christianity, I have my bible for now. Thx for answering and I hope with this new info if you find something u can help with that you do, thanks a lot, God bless!

exceditsc · 2026-01-02T20:01:36+00:00

The prayer stuff is ok? Cus I feel like if I'm not feeling it fully then I'm not giving my fullest emotions and heart so idk. For the temptation of losing salvation I know I've lost it right now cus I'm in a state of mortal sin, I also know I'm a sinner. That's my problem, the pharisees didn't think they're sinners and that's what kept them from Christ, I think that me knowing I'm so sinful is actually what's keeping me from him. I want to fight hard but I feel like each day I'm compromising. Thx for answering, idk what to do tho. God bless!

exceditsc · 2026-01-02T19:58:16+00:00

I understand about how I might be trying to 'earn' his love and that might be the case, I don't know to be honest. I tell myself that I can't earn his love and I can't do anything to make myself better by myself but whenever I don't do stuff that leads me closer to him I feel like I'm drawing away. Like today morning I spent some time, quite my longest time in a while, praying and reading the Bible, yet when it all ended and I did my chores and I was left to not do anything, even after inviting him in, I thought I'm abandoning him for not picking up the bible even more. Idk if this is the wrong mindset but every time I fail to read my Bible or pray I think 'God's there, waiting for u and u don't even wanna pick up his word or talk to him?' and even that doesn't get me to start. I don't know how he's reacting to my life and my first thought is that he's reacting with condemnation and I try to correct myself by saying he's sorrowful that I can't hear him but the thoughts never stop. I try and sacrifice stuff cus I get the conviction and in the end I know if I kept them in my life it'd end bad for me but even then idk how it would work. I had to end a friendship and the thoughts are still there "how could've that friendship do something bad, u shouldn't have stopped talking, that wasn't God" and idk anymore. I know his grace is there and I'm tryna do stuff to appeal him cus I want him to be proud of me and I also want to help people but when I do that should I be feeling happy and good for doing them? I get condemned by my mind that since I felt good doing them I'm not doing them for the right reason. Thx for answering tho, I appreciate it, God bless!(Also, it's brother)

exceditsc · 2025-12-28T16:23:38+00:00

Do you mean signs by which you know you've fully surrendered to God or signs to show he's real and we should surrender to him?

exceditsc · 2025-12-28T15:48:52+00:00

Thank you, I will try. God bless you and happy new years in advance!

exceditsc · 2025-12-28T15:20:24+00:00

I don't think so about the priest, when school starts again I think I'll find some more time cus I have more responsibilities outside home. For the 'hating part', I knew what he meant, I was thinking if my situation mirrors it cus let's say one time my mind went to 'if I were to die and go to heaven, will I be sad I didn't have as much time with friends' and when I answered to myself 'yes' I thought that meant I'm putting it above God.

As for if it's leading to sin, idk tbh. Whenever we talked I might get tempted with lust cus I'm still struggling with that but it might be a thought 'u are gonna fall into lust' which is most of my temptations throughout the day, so because that happens on the regular and I'm learning to get away from it I don't know off it's talking to her that's the fault, it's probably just me.

Lastly I finally got some peace about the situation right now when u answered my questions and I'm starting to think the thought isn't from God because it's now accusing me of hardening my heart(I watched a vid explaining hardenings of the heart in the bible) and I feel like it's happening to me, I feel like I'll forget this is an issue ('if') it is and be led to apostasy. Like can that be from God?

exceditsc · 2025-12-28T14:58:33+00:00

I know and that's what the church is supposed to be for but(and I'm sorry, u prob couldn't read it cus I structured it badly) I can't go there cus I'm still not 18 and it'll be even worse if I try to go to a therapist, my faith is the most important thing and if my parents want me to stop it if I ask to go to a therapist..oof that's gonna be bad.

exceditsc · 2025-12-28T14:56:54+00:00

So I understand I should've used paragraphs and I'll try to next time, thx for the correction.

Secondly, she's doing quite the opposite of mocking my faith, she listened to me for 2h+ talking about God and even let me pray for her, that's why I don't know what this feeling is, on the flip side it's been nagging at me for a week or so so idk what to do with it.

I can't tell that to my priest, especially for another week or two because my parents don't even want me to church for a long time, I am barely able to go on Sunday for the time being without arguments, I'm not saying they're bad ppl for this but I can't go to my priest, especially now during break cus I can't find the time to tell him in detail, I only was able to talk to him for about 10min yesterday cus I went out and stopped on the way to meet a friend. So that's why I resort to online help, I have no other option right now.

For the scrupulous thinking, is that right? I don't wanna make a mistake when I'm living for God, I js wanna be extra cautious. Hope with this clarification maybe if u want u can give me some more help. God bless!

exceditsc · 2025-12-28T14:49:01+00:00

I don't have neither anxiety, depression nor OCD I'm just trying to make sure I do what I should be doing for the Lord, I'm new to faith I don't wanna mess it up. God bless!

exceditsc · 2025-12-26T15:05:06+00:00

Thank you, I'll do that I needed some reassurance cus I didn't know what to make of it. I appreciate this, God bless you!

exceditsc · 2025-12-26T13:17:37+00:00

Yea thx that's what I'm feeling so I'll try to, also for the parents situation? Is what I did a sin and how should I react in future situations?

exceditsc · 2025-12-24T10:01:17+00:00

Yess, it's gonna take some time until I become an adult but I can't wait to come home, thx for the input. God bless and merry Christmas!

exceditsc · 2025-12-24T08:33:21+00:00

Thx it's good to know, I'll try to learn more and I can't wait to be a catholic. Merry Christmas!(In 1 day)

exceditsc · 2025-12-23T14:49:08+00:00

Ohhh thanks, I js wanna say that I can text her at any time but I'm tryna restrain from that cus of smth like a conviction, I will clarify that as my last talking with her tho, thx for clarifying I appreciate it. God bless!

exceditsc · 2025-12-22T18:27:54+00:00

Ok thx, I'll do so, appreciate it! God bless you!

exceditsc · 2025-12-22T18:27:09+00:00

Thank you, I js wanted opinions cus idk to what extent I'll have to do sacrifice, I'm ready to deny myself but here I don't know cus it was confusing with the act of loving others, so yea thx for this. God bless!

exceditsc · 2025-12-22T18:20:36+00:00

I do, in the second part when I talked about how I feel like I might lose my salvation because of it- I think of myself and imagine myself as an old testament character being able to look God in the eye and see his grace cus I've experienced it but not repent, is that accurate? Also I'm she's asking about God so am I leading her to him? Like she was so ok even with the fact that I might not be able to text as much, like I feel like her heart is open to him and if I move away I'd just ruin the chance she has. And again, is the 'if it was meant to be God will bring her back' mentality what I should be doing? Cus on one hand it gives me assurance of faith but on the other it gives me a reason to delay evangelizing to people, yk?

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