I don't know about that but I've been delivered from the temptation of being attracted to a male before so that is good! God is good and he won't let you deal with something too powerful for you to not be able to get out of. I will pray for people suffering with same sex attraction.
I have a problem with that second part, because if that were the case then people wouldn't get tortured til they die, or they wouldn't commit suicide.
This idea that there is a demon or demons for specific sins I have no idea where this came from. I think people like to think that someone else MADE them do their sin and not themselves which in our hearts is where sin originates.I read somewhere there were 177ish sins discussed in the bible. Is it farfetched to assume there is a demon or a legion of demons for every sin trying to get people to commit them? It also seems our minds are able to connect with the spiritual world and hence why we sometimes get thoughts that are against what the bible says we are to think about. What do you guys think?
Christians are extra dense in dealing with any mental illness. The church has failed this group of people.Some things are meant to happen and we cannot change them. Some things are planned by God in advance. For suicide, people have a way out they need to be open and willing to communicate plus a believer in Jesus Christ who will empower someone to deal with their struggle.
[/QUOTE]I'll quote a post from another thread because Herber Book List explains it well:
You are reading into the account that which is not there (eisegesis). It does not mean that the King of Tyre was, literally, an angel. Ezekiel uses the imagery of an angel to describe the King's declared greatness, before his fall. Verses 12 - 13 in the Hebrew text are set as questions: 'Were you the Seal of Perfection? Were you full of wisdom and flawless in beauty? Were you in the Garden of Eden? Yes, you walked on the mountain among the fiery stones' (refers to David and Solomon). In short, the King was trying to out-G_d, G_d, by the way he saw himself as very much equal to, or even as being better than G_d, and the way he managed the affairs of State, and so these verses are meant to be sarcastic* as are the other parts of the text, before his fate is declared.
*Some versions of the text, because of this sarcasm, are written as positive statements, not as questions, again, simply reflecting back to the King how conceited he was and, for that reason, it is put in direct contrast to the enormity of his downfall and punishment.
Rather a sweeping statement. I have several books in my library that deal with mental illness written by Christian psychologists and psychiatrists.Christians are extra dense in dealing with any mental illness. The church has failed this group of people.
John Dominic Crossan has provided a detailed classification of our sources for the historical Jesus according to the chronological stratification of the traditions. For a brief discussion of each source, including the reasons for its proposed dating, see John Dominic Crossan, The Historical Jesus (HarperCollins, 1991) Appendix 1, pp. 427-50. All dates shown are C.E. (Common Era).
Can you prove there isn't?This idea that there is a demon or demons for specific sins I have no idea where this came from. I think people like to think that someone else MADE them do their sin and not themselves which in our hearts is where sin originates.
I think the name it and claim it preachers came up with this one.
First Herber was science fiction writer, and I thought a book list was a list of books, not a theological treatise.
Your dates are bit pointless because the common era did not exist in those days.
First Herber was science fiction writer, and I thought a book list was a list of books, not a theological treatise.
Can you prove there isn't?
Well, none of those questions either prove that the question is abused, nor do they indicate that my asking it in this circumstance was abuse. Furthermore, when someone asks a question like the OP's, that's usually an indicator that they lack the discernment that you mention. If they had the discernment, they wouldn't need to ask."Where does it state (say) in scripture..." must be one of the most misused questions in Christendom.
If one care to do an assessment of life, there are thousands of things not stated in scripture but it doesn't alter the fact that they are or are not OK.
For example, where does it say you can have a new car and I can only have a used one?
Where does it say that one has to don a dress to be a minister?
Where does it say that one can watch television the night of the meeting?
Where does it say that a person cannot preach unless he is ordained?
I could go on and give hundreds of examples but at the end of the day, God has given us his Spirit to discern and discernment is one of the nine gifts so if it is not in scripture, The Spirit of God can help me discern the validity of anything.
That is if you believe that the Spirit of God leads you. If you don't you are in dead trouble.
It is irrelevant what I think it means. Until the atheists got hold of it, it was alway B.C. before Christ and A.D. Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord. I will stick with that as I have no intention of giving atheists leverage.And just what do you think "common era" means?
So, no, you can't prove there isn't.
It is irrelevant what I think it means. Until the atheists got hold of it, it was alway B.C. before Christ and A.D. Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord. I will stick with that as I have no intention of giving atheists leverage.
The Bible. Demons are not called out by the apostles. The apostles tell us to flee from sin that begins in the heart.Can you prove there isn't?
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