The Way Demons Work (A word to the wise)
Aug 11, 2018 9:36:19 GMT -5
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Post by tlsitd on Aug 11, 2018 9:36:19 GMT -5
Just a little note of warning about how demons work. (We do not wrestle against flesh and blood.)
They will bait you with truth in order to entangle you in error and confusion. And that truth may in fact be truth and not a lie, but it leads to more harm than the little bit of truth does good. The truth is just bait---a way to lure you away from the fundamental truths upon which your faith stands, which is easier to erode bit by bit than to attack head-on with a battering ram of error that will readily be recognized as hostile or contradictory to your beliefs.
There's nothing good that a demon offers a person but that it ultimately does that person more harm than the good. Their objective is always to steal, kill and destroy sheep: To steal them away from the Shepherd upon whom they depend for their guidance and defense, to kill them spiritually, and to destroy their faith.
There are a few things that they tend to attack most of all: God's trustworthiness (which includes the reliability of His written word), the Person of Jesus Christ, and the apostle Paul. I don't think it's hard to see why they attack those three things in particular. (If you don't know, think about it a while.) They have various ways of doing it, but they hate those three things and they try everything they can to lure Christians away from them and to destroy their understanding of and confidence in them, because by so doing they can overthrow their faith, which is their ultimate goal in everything they do as far as Christians are concerned.
They'll offer you some knowledge---presenting it to you as something that will make you wiser or that will add something beneficial to your faith---and the information may prove to be correct, in part or in whole, but it's not as beneficial to you (if at all) as the harm that it ultimately does by weakening your faith, which you don't realize (and the demons are counting on you not being wise to this scheme).
While they feed you comparatively trivial truths and half-truths, they are also introducing error and opening your mind to doubts about the three aforementioned fundamental things. And that doubt is the ultimate harm to a Christian, because if confidence in those things fails, a Christian has nothing to stand on except what scholars or experts say or what science proves, or what whoever has the most facts to prove his case asserts. His or her standard of truth by which to test all things---the canonical Scriptures---has been destroyed, and with its destruction goes his or her faith.
I'm not being subtle about this warning. It's very intentionally posted to address a real and present danger, to which I hope your spirits will be alerted by the Holy Spirit.
The more opportunity and time you give a heretic, the more harm he or she will do. Don't set yourself, or others, up for a fall: Leave their tainted offerings be; and by all means don't encourage them to share more "knowledge".
(Disregard this wisdom at your own risk.)
They will bait you with truth in order to entangle you in error and confusion. And that truth may in fact be truth and not a lie, but it leads to more harm than the little bit of truth does good. The truth is just bait---a way to lure you away from the fundamental truths upon which your faith stands, which is easier to erode bit by bit than to attack head-on with a battering ram of error that will readily be recognized as hostile or contradictory to your beliefs.
There's nothing good that a demon offers a person but that it ultimately does that person more harm than the good. Their objective is always to steal, kill and destroy sheep: To steal them away from the Shepherd upon whom they depend for their guidance and defense, to kill them spiritually, and to destroy their faith.
There are a few things that they tend to attack most of all: God's trustworthiness (which includes the reliability of His written word), the Person of Jesus Christ, and the apostle Paul. I don't think it's hard to see why they attack those three things in particular. (If you don't know, think about it a while.) They have various ways of doing it, but they hate those three things and they try everything they can to lure Christians away from them and to destroy their understanding of and confidence in them, because by so doing they can overthrow their faith, which is their ultimate goal in everything they do as far as Christians are concerned.
They'll offer you some knowledge---presenting it to you as something that will make you wiser or that will add something beneficial to your faith---and the information may prove to be correct, in part or in whole, but it's not as beneficial to you (if at all) as the harm that it ultimately does by weakening your faith, which you don't realize (and the demons are counting on you not being wise to this scheme).
While they feed you comparatively trivial truths and half-truths, they are also introducing error and opening your mind to doubts about the three aforementioned fundamental things. And that doubt is the ultimate harm to a Christian, because if confidence in those things fails, a Christian has nothing to stand on except what scholars or experts say or what science proves, or what whoever has the most facts to prove his case asserts. His or her standard of truth by which to test all things---the canonical Scriptures---has been destroyed, and with its destruction goes his or her faith.
I'm not being subtle about this warning. It's very intentionally posted to address a real and present danger, to which I hope your spirits will be alerted by the Holy Spirit.
The more opportunity and time you give a heretic, the more harm he or she will do. Don't set yourself, or others, up for a fall: Leave their tainted offerings be; and by all means don't encourage them to share more "knowledge".
(Disregard this wisdom at your own risk.)
