The documentary is quite shocking how they tortured people. I'm glad it's not done now, I hope it's not done now.
Excellent too those audios on Despising the word of God.
What's shocking too realise it's that torture still goes on in the church with there teaching, mostly with there hell belief. I guess spiritual spikes being pressed in. Well that's how I felt in my many years there and yet they also preach a message where all is well and wonderful. Nothing felt wonderful to me when they continued to preach a false message of evil. I felt terrible inside with no peace.
Evil has it's place in all of us and a necessary experience to go through. Evil is used
to produce righteousness. To see the light in the darkness within.
In us from the beginning:
Gen 6:5 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Jer 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
We are affected by those who input into our life. After so many years of the input from the church I'm glad for the input of Ray into my life now and how God's truth flowed from him to me and others. I get more challenged now in what influence am I going to be to those around me and is God's truth going to shine through.
This passage best answers your question in my understanding:
Rom 7:18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
Rom 7:19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.
Rom 7:20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
Rom 7:21 So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,
Rom 7:23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
Rom 7:24 Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Rom 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
It's a force raging away within us with it's various pulls. God's truth seems to be the only cure. That is what I find, always hungry for more of His truth in my life to deal with the evil that is close at hand.
Evil comes out of us from within when we don't do good and need to learn the lesson of it and turn from it and do good.
1Pe 3:9 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
1Pe 3:10 For "Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
1Pe 3:11 let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
1Pe 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
Rhys