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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Jul 20, 2023 19:14:22 GMT
There are mystical things. As for instance we can see in Japan's folklore or movies as The Ring (1998) or Dark Waters (2002). Many people saw ghosts or goblins. Atheists risk ruining all that things. They make people skip what is sealed by some mystical force. Laughing at things known from the very ancient times let the spirits be angrier and danger. Finally their lack of faith makes evil to grow and expand.
We are asking what is going on with the whole universe, and why is it being ruined. Good spirits are under the world's skin, underneath the tissue of its blood, and they are silently crying out. The evil ones are plotting for the next terrible revenge. Atheists break the balance down. Soviet satanists had started it and their servants are hunting for the souls of the innocent. The innocents are in the greatest danger today. Pits of tars are everywhere, and to turn the way off is easy.
To fight against demons there must be lots of faith. We believe mostly because it is obvious and clearly seen; no, we believe in something when it is covered or out of sight. Mystics is exactly the covered. Atheists don't do good, their intentions are self-contradictory, because they deny what others saw. But it is abnormal. If one sees evil spirits he is not mad or cookoo, he has abilities. And he does not have them only if he's trying to cheat make everyone to be deceived. If he acts sincerely, he's got his abilities. Psychology sometimes is not what it is. A psychologist isn't the doctor indeed, he's a person, and being a person he can, for example, to know your life to blackmail you or to widespread the info about you to FBI. If we didn't destroy the good spirits by our rejecting the hidden within the woods, fields, forests, lands, canyons, we could feel much better. Remember all those legends that are represented in S. King's novels as "Pet Cemetery" or "It". Spirits are balance. Like day and night, male and female, black and white.
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Post by joustos on Jul 21, 2023 15:55:09 GMT
nothing happens by chance... God governs the world... if there are bad things, they are due to evil governance...
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Jul 22, 2023 14:35:43 GMT
nothing happens by chance... God governs the world... if there are bad things, they are due to evil governance... I'm not a determinist. For me, there is no future. Along with it, your thoughts are very well to deny it, besides could I? I don't think I could. God could wish to not know something. If God wants people go to heaven, then God could wish something. But I don't know, who am I to know God's will? “Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty" (Revelations 15:3)
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Jul 23, 2023 1:08:33 GMT
There are mystical things. As for instance we can see in Japan's folklore or movies as The Ring (1998) or Dark Waters (2002). Many people saw ghosts or goblins. Atheists risk ruining all that things. They make people skip what is sealed by some mystical force. Laughing at things known from the very ancient times let the spirits be angrier and danger. Finally their lack of faith makes evil to grow and expand. We are asking what is going on with the whole universe, and why is it being ruined. Good spirits are under the world's skin, underneath the tissue of its blood, and they are silently crying out. The evil ones are plotting for the next terrible revenge. Atheists break the balance down. Soviet satanists had started it and their servants are hunting for the souls of the innocent. The innocents are in the greatest danger today. Pits of tars are everywhere, and to turn the way off is easy. To fight against demons there must be lots of faith. We believe mostly because it is obvious and clearly seen; no, we believe in something when it is covered or out of sight. Mystics is exactly the covered. Atheists don't do good, their intentions are self-contradictory, because they deny what others saw. But it is abnormal. If one sees evil spirits he is not mad or cookoo, he has abilities. And he does not have them only if he's trying to cheat make everyone to be deceived. If he acts sincerely, he's got his abilities. Psychology sometimes is not what it is. A psychologist isn't the doctor indeed, he's a person, and being a person he can, for example, to know your life to blackmail you or to widespread the info about you to FBI. If we didn't destroy the good spirits by our rejecting the hidden within the woods, fields, forests, lands, canyons, we could feel much better. Remember all those legends that are represented in S. King's novels as "Pet Cemetery" or "It". Spirits are balance. Like day and night, male and female, black and white. In the Ancient Near East, in Israel in which the Bible originates, as well as in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the word we translate as 'god' had a far more comprehensive meaning. It meant anything from the Most High God we worship, Yahweh, to the smallest imp that sat on a person's chest during sleep paralysis. In the Bible the word Elohim has been used to describe God, angels, pagan gods that are also called demons (see link to Deuteronomy 32:16-17), below and is used to describe the ghost of Samuel being called up from Sheol by the witch of Endor to speak with Saul in one of the books of Samuel, biblehub.com/text/1_samuel/28-13.htm It simply meant something that lives in the spirit world, a spirit. The old atheist line that says, "well, you're an atheist just like me. I just believe in one God less than you do. You don't believe in 2000 plus other gods and think that your one God is true, I just choose not to believe in your God either. Aren't you so silly for believing that your God just happens to be the one that's real," betrays a deep ignorance of the faith that that they are criticizing and shows that they haven't actually read the scriptures or done their research about Christianity. 1 Corinthians 10:19-20 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV) "What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons." Deuteronomy 32:16-17 "16 They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. 17 They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known," biblehub.com/text/deuteronomy/32-17.htmLet it be clear that the Bible does not deny the existence of other gods. When the Israelites were sacrificing their children to Moloch and cutting themselves in honor of Baal, they were not following some superstition. They were getting something out of it. Baal was sending the rain for their crops, Moloch was giving them what they paid for because Moloch and Baal are as real as you or I. They are real spiritual beings. They are demons, which are defined here as spirits in rebellion to God. In Biblical religion, any power that was worshipped other than God was seen as a demon or an evil spirit in rebellion to the true God. I mention all of this because the implications are very interesting. Most of the creatures that have survived to us in folklore fairies, elves, satyrs, nymphs, dryads, brownies, djinn, goblins, and other things like that are holdovers from the previous pagan religions that have been displaced by monotheistic faiths like Christianity and Islam. The high gods in these pagan religions that were once worshipped were done away with for obvious reasons, but the lesser spirits which would have been worshipped or placated survived in folk beliefs as these creatures. Elves used to be demigod like creatures in Norse Mythology, Nymphs and Satyrs water and wood spirits, Brownies household and hearth gods etc, djinn tutelary deities in the pre-islamic religion. What this means is that in some sense all of these creatures are real which explains some strange things that a friend of mine has seen quite nicely. Anyways, actually studying my faith in its original context has made it where there are few things that I don't believe in anymore. I think that the spirit world is quite a crowded place.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Jul 23, 2023 1:15:11 GMT
nothing happens by chance... God governs the world... if there are bad things, they are due to evil governance... They are due to rational actors rebelling against good governance.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Jul 23, 2023 17:10:03 GMT
There are mystical things. As for instance we can see in Japan's folklore or movies as The Ring (1998) or Dark Waters (2002). Many people saw ghosts or goblins. Atheists risk ruining all that things. They make people skip what is sealed by some mystical force. Laughing at things known from the very ancient times let the spirits be angrier and danger. Finally their lack of faith makes evil to grow and expand. We are asking what is going on with the whole universe, and why is it being ruined. Good spirits are under the world's skin, underneath the tissue of its blood, and they are silently crying out. The evil ones are plotting for the next terrible revenge. Atheists break the balance down. Soviet satanists had started it and their servants are hunting for the souls of the innocent. The innocents are in the greatest danger today. Pits of tars are everywhere, and to turn the way off is easy. To fight against demons there must be lots of faith. We believe mostly because it is obvious and clearly seen; no, we believe in something when it is covered or out of sight. Mystics is exactly the covered. Atheists don't do good, their intentions are self-contradictory, because they deny what others saw. But it is abnormal. If one sees evil spirits he is not mad or cookoo, he has abilities. And he does not have them only if he's trying to cheat make everyone to be deceived. If he acts sincerely, he's got his abilities. Psychology sometimes is not what it is. A psychologist isn't the doctor indeed, he's a person, and being a person he can, for example, to know your life to blackmail you or to widespread the info about you to FBI. If we didn't destroy the good spirits by our rejecting the hidden within the woods, fields, forests, lands, canyons, we could feel much better. Remember all those legends that are represented in S. King's novels as "Pet Cemetery" or "It". Spirits are balance. Like day and night, male and female, black and white. In the Ancient Near East, in Israel in which the Bible originates, as well as in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the word we translate as 'god' had a far more comprehensive meaning. It meant anything from the Most High God we worship, Yahweh, to the smallest imp that sat on a person's chest during sleep paralysis. In the Bible the word Elohim has been used to describe God, angels, pagan gods that are also called demons (see link to Deuteronomy 32:16-17), below and is used to describe the ghost of Samuel being called up from Sheol by the witch of Endor to speak with Saul in one of the books of Samuel, biblehub.com/text/1_samuel/28-13.htm It simply meant something that lives in the spirit world, a spirit. The old atheist line that says, "well, you're an atheist just like me. I just believe in one God less than you do. You don't believe in 2000 plus other gods and think that your one God is true, I just choose not to believe in your God either. Aren't you so silly for believing that your God just happens to be the one that's real," betrays a deep ignorance of the faith that that they are criticizing and shows that they haven't actually read the scriptures or done their research about Christianity. 1 Corinthians 10:19-20 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV) "What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons." Deuteronomy 32:16-17 "16 They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. 17 They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known," biblehub.com/text/deuteronomy/32-17.htmLet it be clear that the Bible does not deny the existence of other gods. When the Israelites were sacrificing their children to Moloch and cutting themselves in honor of Baal, they were not following some superstition. They were getting something out of it. Baal was sending the rain for their crops, Moloch was giving them what they paid for because Moloch and Baal are as real as you or I. They are real spiritual beings. They are demons, which are defined here as spirits in rebellion to God. In Biblical religion, any power that was worshipped other than God was seen as a demon or an evil spirit in rebellion to the true God. I mention all of this because the implications are very interesting. Most of the creatures that have survived to us in folklore fairies, elves, satyrs, nymphs, dryads, brownies, djinn, goblins, and other things like that are holdovers from the previous pagan religions that have been displaced by monotheistic faiths like Christianity and Islam. The high gods in these pagan religions that were once worshipped were done away with for obvious reasons, but the lesser spirits which would have been worshipped or placated survived in folk beliefs as these creatures. Elves used to be demigod like creatures in Norse Mythology, Nymphs and Satyrs water and wood spirits, Brownies household and hearth gods etc, djinn tutelary deities in the pre-islamic religion. What this means is that in some sense all of these creatures are real which explains some strange things that a friend of mine has seen quite nicely. Anyways, actually studying my faith in its original context has made it where there are few things that I don't believe in anymore. I think that the spirit world is quite a crowded place. Plenty of excuses, Clovis. Just want to admire that you do write such excellent comments! I really mean it! I just wonder why haven't you become a writer yet? You should write! That is a God's gift. I wish I could do this. Well, speaking honestly I don't want to claim if there's something spiritual. Instead, trying to be care here, I'd say that, firstly, it's not impossible, but on the other hand, who knows what kind of reality is it. Your point of realness of some of the creatures as Elves is accepted by me, and I don't deny it; for me, I'd say, it is difficult to express what is it. Like, for instance (examples are unavoidable), my today's trip after visiting a church. Actually, I wasn't going to visit the church (I was planning to), but instead I took the wrong bus (I've got no car yet), and should ask for a stop. Well, I guess it was not so bad. Anyway, I decided to change my plans, and to visit another one. After that I took a route to the places where I hadn't visited since 1993.... No, not like that - for some reason (or maybe with no reasons at all) I took a road, and walk there. That's it. And that road led me to those very old places for me to visit. (Another excuses - I will explain, what I'm going to illustrate by that.) So, I knew about those places, that those places existed and so on. (By the way, for today Kharkiv isn't crowdy and that allow me to enjoy my trip better.) Okay, as I said I knew that those places existed, maybe few times in my life I recalled them in my mind, and so on. Those places I'm talking about now (let's generalize it to the park; that would be easier) - that park - glimpsed in my head, I thought about it, it happened rarely. But when I finally saw it today - the park I hadn't seen for 30 years - I got not those impressions //I understand by impressions the inner feeling that is caused by the outer things; so, rigorously saying I can't say that impressions are not expressions; anyway, mostly they are in me, than 'out' of me// I was expected to. No, those impressions were not bad or kinda; those impressions were quite specific. And that made me think about my own impressions, maybe for the first time in my whole life. It was like - I'd never deal with my own impressions in this way before. You know, it was like - I met a person //who is me//, not feelings or something. And again that made me think of - did I know myself so well? Summary, if I don't even sure that I am aware of my own inner self as those impressions inside, how can I trust myself in a way of analyzing them? That was a very interesting experience. I spend for three hours more, I guess, than I was planned, but those three hours were not at least dull or the waste of time. Speaking of Bible - this is clear, that here you know it is better, than me. I must say, even learning Bible I can't say that I know it is so well, or... no... I'd better say it in this way: I am worrying about my own interpretations of Bible. I can't say I'm sure my analysis is correct. And that makes me feel so sad, and get into kind of the inner lair of despair. Honestly, for me sometimes it is absolutely correct to call myself a complete idiot, and to read the next verse. If to think about all those expressions of apostles, and prothets... Well, they really could have that experience that we're not now. Additionally to the rest, this: The old atheist line that says, "well, you're an atheist just like me. I just believe in one God less than you do. You don't believe in 2000 plus other gods and think that your one God is true, I just choose not to believe in your God either. Aren't you so silly for believing that your God just happens to be the one that's real," betrays a deep ignorance of the faith that that they are criticizing and shows that they haven't actually read the scriptures or done their research about Christianity.indeed awesome! By this comment I could sing that the theme of this thread is complete.
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Post by jonbain on Jul 24, 2023 9:18:57 GMT
nothing happens by chance... God governs the world... if there are bad things, they are due to evil governance... I think God choose to allow things to happen by chance too. Is God not free to do that, you think?
My God is not a control freak. He wants us to choose him freely, not purely because of worldly benefit.
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Post by joustos on Jul 24, 2023 15:19:52 GMT
nothing happens by chance... God governs the world... if there are bad things, they are due to evil governance... I think God choose to allow things to happen by chance too. Is God not free to do that, you think?
My God is not a control freak. He wants us to choose him freely, not purely because of worldly benefit.
you assume you know your God and that there is such a substance [other than your own concept].
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Post by jonbain on Jul 25, 2023 7:43:26 GMT
I think God choose to allow things to happen by chance too. Is God not free to do that, you think?
My God is not a control freak. He wants us to choose him freely, not purely because of worldly benefit.
you assume you know your God and that there is such a substance [other than your own concept]. anyone discussing God assumes they know something of God, and you are correct, there is a fundamental difference between one's own concepts, and Logos in its ontological haecceity.
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Post by rexa on Jul 25, 2023 16:22:34 GMT
There are mystical things. As for instance we can see in Japan's folklore or movies as The Ring (1998) or Dark Waters (2002). Many people saw ghosts or goblins. Atheists risk ruining all that things. They make people skip what is sealed by some mystical force. Laughing at things known from the very ancient times let the spirits be angrier and danger. Finally their lack of faith makes evil to grow and expand. We are asking what is going on with the whole universe, and why is it being ruined. Good spirits are under the world's skin, underneath the tissue of its blood, and they are silently crying out. The evil ones are plotting for the next terrible revenge. Atheists break the balance down. Soviet satanists had started it and their servants are hunting for the souls of the innocent. The innocents are in the greatest danger today. Pits of tars are everywhere, and to turn the way off is easy. To fight against demons there must be lots of faith. We believe mostly because it is obvious and clearly seen; no, we believe in something when it is covered or out of sight. Mystics is exactly the covered. Atheists don't do good, their intentions are self-contradictory, because they deny what others saw. But it is abnormal. If one sees evil spirits he is not mad or cookoo, he has abilities. And he does not have them only if he's trying to cheat make everyone to be deceived. If he acts sincerely, he's got his abilities. Psychology sometimes is not what it is. A psychologist isn't the doctor indeed, he's a person, and being a person he can, for example, to know your life to blackmail you or to widespread the info about you to FBI. If we didn't destroy the good spirits by our rejecting the hidden within the woods, fields, forests, lands, canyons, we could feel much better. Remember all those legends that are represented in S. King's novels as "Pet Cemetery" or "It". Spirits are balance. Like day and night, male and female, black and white. In the Ancient Near East, in Israel in which the Bible originates, as well as in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the word we translate as 'god' had a far more comprehensive meaning. It meant anything from the Most High God we worship, Yahweh, to the smallest imp that sat on a person's chest during sleep paralysis. In the Bible the word Elohim has been used to describe God, angels, pagan gods that are also called demons (see link to Deuteronomy 32:16-17), below and is used to describe the ghost of Samuel being called up from Sheol by the witch of Endor to speak with Saul in one of the books of Samuel, biblehub.com/text/1_samuel/28-13.htm It simply meant something that lives in the spirit world, a spirit. The old atheist line that says, "well, you're an atheist just like me. I just believe in one God less than you do. You don't believe in 2000 plus other gods and think that your one God is true, I just choose not to believe in your God either. Aren't you so silly for believing that your God just happens to be the one that's real," betrays a deep ignorance of the faith that that they are criticizing and shows that they haven't actually read the scriptures or done their research about Christianity. 1 Corinthians 10:19-20 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV) "What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons." Deuteronomy 32:16-17 "16 They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. 17 They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known," biblehub.com/text/deuteronomy/32-17.htmLet it be clear that the Bible does not deny the existence of other gods. When the Israelites were sacrificing their children to Moloch and cutting themselves in honor of Baal, they were not following some superstition. They were getting something out of it. Baal was sending the rain for their crops, Moloch was giving them what they paid for because Moloch and Baal are as real as you or I. They are real spiritual beings. They are demons, which are defined here as spirits in rebellion to God. In Biblical religion, any power that was worshipped other than God was seen as a demon or an evil spirit in rebellion to the true God. I mention all of this because the implications are very interesting. Most of the creatures that have survived to us in folklore fairies, elves, satyrs, nymphs, dryads, brownies, djinn, goblins, and other things like that are holdovers from the previous pagan religions that have been displaced by monotheistic faiths like Christianity and Islam. The high gods in these pagan religions that were once worshipped were done away with for obvious reasons, but the lesser spirits which would have been worshipped or placated survived in folk beliefs as these creatures. Elves used to be demigod like creatures in Norse Mythology, Nymphs and Satyrs water and wood spirits, Brownies household and hearth gods etc, djinn tutelary deities in the pre-islamic religion. What this means is that in some sense all of these creatures are real which explains some strange things that a friend of mine has seen quite nicely. Anyways, actually studying my faith in its original context has made it where there are few things that I don't believe in anymore. I think that the spirit world is quite a crowded place. I like how you summarised your thoughts
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Post by rexa on Jul 25, 2023 16:39:31 GMT
The problem with mysticism is that it gives rise to fabricated events. Associate that with religion and it becomes a very profound force to refute. All the mumbo jumbo nonsense of flying to the sky and parting rivers as if Physics never existed. We get so enthralled by such occurrences that we fail to execute our tiniest bit of mind. Atheism hence disregards on the basis of reason. It has nothing to do with faith. As for mystic element in life..I'll just copy paste what Clovis has said. The part which follows after the bible quotations.
Lastly the outlook you have on the world. Good Vs bad. That's something you have been programmed since the day you were born hence you perceive the world in a very limited scope. The reality of how the world functions is solely based on actions and consequences.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Jul 25, 2023 17:07:58 GMT
The problem with mysticism is that it gives rise to fabricated events. Associate that with religion and it becomes a very profound force to refute. All the mumbo jumbo nonsense of flying to the sky and parting rivers as if Physics never existed. We get so enthralled by such occurrences that we fail to execute our tiniest bit of mind. Atheism hence disregards on the basis of reason. It has nothing to do with faith. As for mystic element in life..I'll just copy paste what Clovis has said. The part which follows after the bible quotations. Lastly the outlook you have on the world. Good Vs bad. That's something you have been programmed since the day you were born hence you perceive the world in a very limited scope. The reality of how the world functions is solely based on actions and consequences. Well, you are right here in many points, but: science also can assure us incorrectly, when it comes for remedies or some special cures, or about Big Bangs or kinda. And there's no restrictions for a person to dream, and to use its false imagination to create something. I am aware, and do know that the lie is bad. It's a fact. However, remember how many scientists in past believed God, and how they believed in Elves, in Ghosts, or kinda. Or maybe they believed to aircraft travelling or flight to Moon. They were dreaming about that, and people 'round them would consider them to be charlatans, than sane. My personal intuition is that that faith into something beyond helps us. It is not bad to be a romantic. I'd better be the one, let people spit on me, it is more honourable to be ostracized, then to live inside a complete steel and mechanised reality with no light or soul in it. Take for instance a film "Equilibrium" (2002), the lack of art and imagination turns the lives of its citizens into the nightmare.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Aug 4, 2023 20:17:44 GMT
I find the idea that the God who created the laws of physics being unable to alter them or ignore them to perform miracles at his leisure to be highly unlikely.
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Post by karl on Aug 5, 2023 2:06:10 GMT
I find the idea that the God who created the laws of physics being unable to alter them or ignore them to perform miracles at his leisure to be highly unlikely.
I don't think God needs to break those laws in order to influence events. Rather I think he created the laws such that he could exert his will in ways that one can recognize through faith but not prove through science. If God on occasion would break physical laws to allow for miracles, it could serve as strong evidence for God's existence, but I think he made the world such that he could only be found by those who actively look for him, not through irrefutable evidence.
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Post by MAYA-EL on Aug 10, 2023 2:53:43 GMT
There are mystical things. As for instance we can see in Japan's folklore or movies as The Ring (1998) or Dark Waters (2002). Many people saw ghosts or goblins. Atheists risk ruining all that things. They make people skip what is sealed by some mystical force. Laughing at things known from the very ancient times let the spirits be angrier and danger. Finally their lack of faith makes evil to grow and expand. We are asking what is going on with the whole universe, and why is it being ruined. Good spirits are under the world's skin, underneath the tissue of its blood, and they are silently crying out. The evil ones are plotting for the next terrible revenge. Atheists break the balance down. Soviet satanists had started it and their servants are hunting for the souls of the innocent. The innocents are in the greatest danger today. Pits of tars are everywhere, and to turn the way off is easy. To fight against demons there must be lots of faith. We believe mostly because it is obvious and clearly seen; no, we believe in something when it is covered or out of sight. Mystics is exactly the covered. Atheists don't do good, their intentions are self-contradictory, because they deny what others saw. But it is abnormal. If one sees evil spirits he is not mad or cookoo, he has abilities. And he does not have them only if he's trying to cheat make everyone to be deceived. If he acts sincerely, he's got his abilities. Psychology sometimes is not what it is. A psychologist isn't the doctor indeed, he's a person, and being a person he can, for example, to know your life to blackmail you or to widespread the info about you to FBI. If we didn't destroy the good spirits by our rejecting the hidden within the woods, fields, forests, lands, canyons, we could feel much better. Remember all those legends that are represented in S. King's novels as "Pet Cemetery" or "It". Spirits are balance. Like day and night, male and female, black and white. In the Ancient Near East, in Israel in which the Bible originates, as well as in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the word we translate as 'god' had a far more comprehensive meaning. It meant anything from the Most High God we worship, Yahweh, to the smallest imp that sat on a person's chest during sleep paralysis. In the Bible the word Elohim has been used to describe God, angels, pagan gods that are also called demons (see link to Deuteronomy 32:16-17), below and is used to describe the ghost of Samuel being called up from Sheol by the witch of Endor to speak with Saul in one of the books of Samuel, biblehub.com/text/1_samuel/28-13.htm It simply meant something that lives in the spirit world, a spirit. The old atheist line that says, "well, you're an atheist just like me. I just believe in one God less than you do. You don't believe in 2000 plus other gods and think that your one God is true, I just choose not to believe in your God either. Aren't you so silly for believing that your God just happens to be the one that's real," betrays a deep ignorance of the faith that that they are criticizing and shows that they haven't actually read the scriptures or done their research about Christianity. 1 Corinthians 10:19-20 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV) "What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons." Deuteronomy 32:16-17 "16 They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. 17 They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known," biblehub.com/text/deuteronomy/32-17.htmLet it be clear that the Bible does not deny the existence of other gods. When the Israelites were sacrificing their children to Moloch and cutting themselves in honor of Baal, they were not following some superstition. They were getting something out of it. Baal was sending the rain for their crops, Moloch was giving them what they paid for because Moloch and Baal are as real as you or I. They are real spiritual beings. They are demons, which are defined here as spirits in rebellion to God. In Biblical religion, any power that was worshipped other than God was seen as a demon or an evil spirit in rebellion to the true God. I mention all of this because the implications are very interesting. Most of the creatures that have survived to us in folklore fairies, elves, satyrs, nymphs, dryads, brownies, djinn, goblins, and other things like that are holdovers from the previous pagan religions that have been displaced by monotheistic faiths like Christianity and Islam. The high gods in these pagan religions that were once worshipped were done away with for obvious reasons, but the lesser spirits which would have been worshipped or placated survived in folk beliefs as these creatures. Elves used to be demigod like creatures in Norse Mythology, Nymphs and Satyrs water and wood spirits, Brownies household and hearth gods etc, djinn tutelary deities in the pre-islamic religion. >>>What this means is that in some sense all of these creatures are real which explains some strange things that a friend of mine has seen quite nicely.<<<< Does it now? Well it's nice to know that so long as alot of people believe in something that it automatically makes it real..(that's sarcasm)
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