I love my husband!
I just presented this whole thing to him and asked his opinion if this could be God.
And he said, " I think they are just being all things to all people. Yes!
1 Corinthians 9:22 To the weak I became weak in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some of them.
1 Corinthians 9:23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel in order to have a share in its blessings.
Are you really gonna pull this card? [pun intended]
Not once, when Paul was confronted by people in the occult did Paul ever become one of them to win them. It was always the opposite, he took his authority in Christ and dealt with them.
Acts 13:4-12
[SUP]4 [/SUP]So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus. [SUP]5 [/SUP]When they reached Salamis, they
began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their helper. [SUP]6 [/SUP]When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus, [SUP]7 [/SUP]who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God. [SUP]8 [/SUP]But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. [SUP]9 [/SUP]But Saul, who was also
known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him, [SUP]10 [/SUP]and said, “You who are full of all deceit and fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to make crooked the straight ways of the Lord? [SUP]11 [/SUP]Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and not see the sun for a time.” And immediately a mist and a darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking those who would lead him by the hand. [SUP]12 [/SUP]Then the proconsul believed when he saw what had happened, being amazed at the teaching of the Lord.
Acts 16:16-18
[SUP]16 [/SUP]It happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling. [SUP]17 [/SUP]Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.” [SUP]18 [/SUP]She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out at that very moment.
Acts 19:11-19
[SUP]11 [/SUP]God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, [SUP]12 [/SUP]so that handkerchiefs or aprons were even carried from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out. [SUP]13 [/SUP]But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” [SUP]14 [/SUP]Seven sons of one Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this. [SUP]15 [/SUP]And the evil spirit answered and said to them, “I recognize Jesus, and I know about Paul, but who are you?” [SUP]16 [/SUP]And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaped on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. [SUP]17 [/SUP]This became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord Jesus was being magnified. [SUP]18 [/SUP]Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. [SUP]19 [/SUP]And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and
began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver. [SUP]20 [/SUP]So the word of the Lord was growing mightily and prevailing.
Now please show us where Paul became an occultist to win the occultist?
I think you are simply trying to be cute and spiritual to one up a fellow woman poster you highly dislike. You do this and butcher God's word and implicate you and your husband at your own risk woman. God is not mocked, you need to repent.