| Re: Overcoming abuse through the atonement [message #1210 is a reply to message #1208] |
Sun, 07 October 2012 18:55   |
Jeremy
Messages: 20
Registered: June 2012
Location: Alaska
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DragonSadly, my experience with the church has been people telling me I'm just not praying hard enough, or not reading enough scripture to make my pain go away. The concept that the gospel can heal ANY pain leads to an aversion to using psychotherapy and/or pharmaceuticals to overcome past experiences or correct imbalances in the brain.
This is very interesting to me. I wonder why I have seen and experienced the exact opposite. In fact, my experience has shown how quickly the gospel takes a back seat to psychotherapy and pharmaceuticals.
I do not cast ill judgment on those individuals who use those methods. I do feel saddened when those methods are where trust is placed though. As I said, I do not judge...but I am not one to recommend pharmaceuticals. I feel as though to elaborate would take away from the spirit of this thread...not because you can't handle it...but because I am quick to defend and prove I am right....  thus pushing out the spirit. That, and I am often wrong.
I would like to encourage you to continue trying to "give that pain to Christ". In my experience it is almost impossible to remove something from ones soul without putting something in its place. You may have tried this...so forgive me for my ignorance, but rather than simply asking for Him to take it...you might ask for Him to replace it.
I learned this principle one day a work of all places. We had an incident when multiple files had been deleted off of a computer hard drive. The files were very much needed and there was a sense of panic in the office. One of those sweet tender mercies occurred. As I tried to find a method to recover the lost files I learned how data is stored on such a drive.
Not to insult anyones intelligence but the short version is this:
All data is packages of 1's and 0's. So if you have a file stored somewhere, the first digit of the file is a 1. That one means the space is being used and cannot be overwritten. When you delete a file the data isn't washed away...the first digit is changed to a zero, telling the computer that that space is available for new data. The old data is still there...if you know how to change the 0 back to a 1 you can recover the data....but, if new data has been placed in that location it is MUCH more difficult to recover said data.
So...what I learned was the memory of our souls does not forget just because we say "forget". We MUST replace the pain/memory with something else. If we do not, it will always be there...and that evil one will work and work to change the 0 to a 1...and let use live it all over again.
The Book of Mormon has been an awesome tool to teach me how to replace said data.
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