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Can Satan read our minds
theophilus:
--- Quote from: Ricky on January 07, 2014, 11:07:36 AM ---Has nothing to do with being the rightful owner, spiritual warfare, here is your bible verse, Eph, 6,12.
Ricky
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Here's the verse:
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the LORD OF THIS AGE (AION?), rulers of this darkness, against spiritual wickedness in the heavens.
Again, Nothing about OWING this planet spiritually.
Ricky:
Lol, nevermind.
theophilus:
--- Quote from: Ricky on January 07, 2014, 01:16:05 PM ---Lol, nevermind.
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Controversies [edit]
Controversies have developed over interpretations of spiritual warfare methods, and purposes, by Christian groups who have used spiritual warfare as a justification to persecute others, even amongst the Christian community as well as other groups, such as practitioners of transcendental meditation, Freemasons, women accused of witchcraft, and owners of occult objects (e.g. native American art, Ouija boards, tarot cards).[19]
Christian countercult movement[edit]
The excesses of unsubstantiated allegations made in the satanic ritual abuse phenomenon of the 1980s and 1990s has also prompted critical reviews. Some apologists in the Christian countercult movement have expressed concerns that spiritual warfare techniques seem at times to have been based on spurious stories and anecdotes without careful discernment and reflection.[citation needed] Some of these general concerns have been expressed by apologists like Elliot Miller (Christian Research Institute), and Bob and Gretchen Passantino in various articles published in the Christian Research Journal. Others, such as Mike Hertenstein and Jon Trott, have called into question the claims of alleged ex-Satanists like Mike Warnke and Lauren Stratford whose stories have subsequently influenced many popular books about spiritual warfare and the occult. Bill Ellis's work, Raising the Devil, has detected the presence of folkloric stories about the occult and demons circulating in evangelical and charismatic circles, which later become accepted as unquestioned facts.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_warfare)
Several branches of Christianity are obsessed with "spiritual warfare". There are books that teach you to map out a city, find out who the Strong Man is and what you have to do to bind him. They see devils everywhere. Satan and his "minions" are more a reality to them than Jesus Christ.
You're right: Never mind. I think that was the gist of Rhys' post.
onelovedread:
1 Peter 5:7 (CLV) tossing your entire worry on Him, for He is caring concerning you." 8 Be sober! Watch! For your plaintiff, the Adversary, is walking about as a roaring lion, seeking someone to swallow up;" 9 whom withstand, solid in the faith..
Not sure whether Satan can read our minds, but God commands us to "withstand" or resist him, solid in the faith. That suggests to me that we're not helpless, and that God has given us the authority to put him in his place.
thewatchman:
The answer to you question is simple and no-one has really answered it. Too much waffling on about other things.
NO!
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