Spiritual Warfare..
Ok, I am probably going to step on toes here...please give me your advice, opinions, etc because I am searching for Truth and maybe one of you have the answer I need...
I have been hearing alot about spiritual warfare lately. I am dealing with some bad thoughts (from the past and some just downright sinful!). People who know what I am going through and even those who have no clue have been telling me things about it (spiritual warfare, that is).
So...here are my thoughts on it...I don't know WHAT to think about it! I believe there is a hell and a Satan. I believe in the Trinity...all of these things I only started to believe in this past year. That is where my certainty ends! I don't know if there are DEMONS...if so are they creatures, spirits or what? Are they the exact opposite of angels? (BTW...I do believe in angels, I think!) Do they inhabit people's bodies? If so, I have seen several face to face! And what about Satan himself...I believe in him but to what extent. People say the urge I have to do bad things is Satan tempting me...Really?? It's not just because I am a fallen human in this fallen world?? So does EVERYTHING I do have some sort of spiritual element to it?? If so that is scary if you ask me! I think some people are just plain evil...that's how they roll...just like some people are just plain good. But you can be good and not have God in you...so why can't you be BAD and not have some evil spirit enticing you? If Christians can't be demon-possessed (or so I've heard) then why can we HEAR Satan talking to us and putting thoughts in your heads? Are exorcisms real? (BTW...they kinda scare me...in a fascinating, weird kinda way I want to know everything about them). So if demons exist, does that mean things like ghost and vampires exist? (which I love reading about and watching on TV but don't believe actually exist)...And when I read my Bible how come I can look at it and take a passage and see nothing in it that has to do with spiritual warfare but someone else can take the same passage and swear that is what it is all about? I want to know the Truth...no matter how weird or scary it may be...does it really matter, though, in the sum of things, what I believe about all this???
I have been hearing alot about spiritual warfare lately. I am dealing with some bad thoughts (from the past and some just downright sinful!). People who know what I am going through and even those who have no clue have been telling me things about it (spiritual warfare, that is).
So...here are my thoughts on it...I don't know WHAT to think about it! I believe there is a hell and a Satan. I believe in the Trinity...all of these things I only started to believe in this past year. That is where my certainty ends! I don't know if there are DEMONS...if so are they creatures, spirits or what? Are they the exact opposite of angels? (BTW...I do believe in angels, I think!) Do they inhabit people's bodies? If so, I have seen several face to face! And what about Satan himself...I believe in him but to what extent. People say the urge I have to do bad things is Satan tempting me...Really?? It's not just because I am a fallen human in this fallen world?? So does EVERYTHING I do have some sort of spiritual element to it?? If so that is scary if you ask me! I think some people are just plain evil...that's how they roll...just like some people are just plain good. But you can be good and not have God in you...so why can't you be BAD and not have some evil spirit enticing you? If Christians can't be demon-possessed (or so I've heard) then why can we HEAR Satan talking to us and putting thoughts in your heads? Are exorcisms real? (BTW...they kinda scare me...in a fascinating, weird kinda way I want to know everything about them). So if demons exist, does that mean things like ghost and vampires exist? (which I love reading about and watching on TV but don't believe actually exist)...And when I read my Bible how come I can look at it and take a passage and see nothing in it that has to do with spiritual warfare but someone else can take the same passage and swear that is what it is all about? I want to know the Truth...no matter how weird or scary it may be...does it really matter, though, in the sum of things, what I believe about all this???
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