I am doing my homework by asking you for someone I can research on. So instead of finally giving me a name of a confirmed report of someone with actual supernatural-magic powers, you go: "research it yourself". You just made a cop out, and a strange one too given that you stated to be Physicist/Mathematician this is the last form of reply someone of your profession should have when asked to provide evidence.
A cop out is asking someone else for something when you can find out for yourself.
There is a difference. Possession is not magic, it's not an ability. It is a spirit using a human as a physical vessel, and I've have stated it repeatedly: "the Church demands evidence before taking action, therefore we should too..."
How can you say possession is not magic when you don't know what magic is? The base definition of magic is manipulating nature in order to fit your will - what do you think possession is? Entities that manipulate another vessel in order to fit its will is magic.
You can't just answer with a yes or no?
I told you exactly what I thought the shape of this plane of existence was - a manifold covered by an octahedral geodesic thermodynamically "hard" dome made of electromagnetic energy and light matter.
Terra firma is not flat; it is a manifold.
The "Flat earth" discussion is an exercise in
myopia: mathematically, "flat, sphere, ball" and such have specific meanings - it isn't just water-cooler nomenclature for the purposes of pointing at those who don't agree.
Do you not know what that means, or are you just assuming that the nature of the shape and reality of this plane of existence can be summed up by a simple yes or no - especially when the question is purposefully generalized to a misunderstood pedestrian paradigm?
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This is exactly what i've been talking about, certain christians (mostly protestants) don't realize that they reveal the amount of faith they have towards evil that they don't realize the attachment they have to it whenever it is facing scrutiny.
Are you talking about yourself? I don't have faith in evil, I am reconnoitering my enemy. My Father is the Most High, and there is no entity in Creation or beyond that can compare to Him. You can choose to be scared of evil and pretend it doesn't exist - I used to use the same arguments you used when I was incredulous about spirits. But, then I experienced it for myself.
You do not realize how much of a
luxury it is to be so blind to the facets of reality - especially what humans call "supernatural" and "magic". This is how I know you have never experienced that facet of reality - people who have are on the other side of your argument (the ones who are called crazy and silly), and if they are lucky they have to live with the information alone (because usually people
kill people that know about the supernatural, or magic).
As I said, it is amazing that Christians do not believe in magic, or the supernatural - given the faith is full of it. At some people, people are going to stop putting their character and bodies on the line to try to help us wake up to this reality - and we will have nothing else to scoff at.