Yes those philosophies do tend to go round in circles, well sending people round in circles without giving absolute and solid, concrete answers...like its designed to keep people trapped in that cycle to not come to the Truth...
Yes they do sound very nice, gentle, convincing, persuasive - kind of telling us what we wanna hear. Appealing to our wants maybe.... They are deceiving spirits and want to present themselves as angels of light.
RE: those spirits saying those things about Jesus, and God - funny how they exist but they'd try to convince God doesn't, hmmm. That doesn't add up. Yeah I remember getting a bit of that (trying to put me off turning to The Almighty) when I started to question what I was into with regards to new age stuff. It was quite a battle actually but the more I resisted and turned to God, and the Bible, the less power and hold they had over me. God Most High is Faithful.
RE: sitting on the fence. Yes, I can understand how it's not an overnight transition. Takes a lot of courage to come away from all that stuff!! I'm so glad you did
so glad I did!!! God is so good, Jesus is The Good Shepherd, and He'll go looking for His sheep and bring 'em into the fold. Woooooooo yeah hehe.
Yes they do sound very nice, gentle, convincing, persuasive - kind of telling us what we wanna hear. Appealing to our wants maybe.... They are deceiving spirits and want to present themselves as angels of light.
RE: those spirits saying those things about Jesus, and God - funny how they exist but they'd try to convince God doesn't, hmmm. That doesn't add up. Yeah I remember getting a bit of that (trying to put me off turning to The Almighty) when I started to question what I was into with regards to new age stuff. It was quite a battle actually but the more I resisted and turned to God, and the Bible, the less power and hold they had over me. God Most High is Faithful.
RE: sitting on the fence. Yes, I can understand how it's not an overnight transition. Takes a lot of courage to come away from all that stuff!! I'm so glad you did
so glad I did!!! God is so good, Jesus is The Good Shepherd, and He'll go looking for His sheep and bring 'em into the fold. Woooooooo yeah hehe.
Much of my identity was tied up in those things in one way or another, even though I had been brought up in a religious home, and had previously experienced the love and forgiveness of God at a time in my life when I was feeling the most broken I ever have. Here is a post from almost three years ago that I made on that experience:
I have a slightly different understanding because of the way I have experienced God, even while I was still running from Him in disobedience, rebellion, and defiance. I consider myself to have been lost at that time from my present perspective, but God knew exactly where I was. This was quite a few years ago, twenty seven to be more exact. My marriage had broken down following two first-trimester miscarriages, and a still birth that occurred less than two weeks before the nuptials. I also had a lot of baggage from my past that I had been unable to deal with/put "closure" on. It was around Passover in 1988, and a neighborhood evangelical Christian church was showing a movie on the life of Christ based on the Gospel of Luke. I had been brought up in a fairly strict religious environment but did not know Jesus, and was curious, and living in a world of unremitting emotional pain, so I went. As I sat in that church after seeing the first or second part of that movie, I am not sure at what point the following happened: my whole body was filled with the Light of God's unconditional love and forgiveness for me and all I had done, all the ways I had messed up my life, all my failures and mistakes, all of it bathed in the Light of His absolute understanding of how and why I had become the person I was, all of it bathed in the Light of His unconditional love and total forgiveness. I tell you, I wept. I felt so broken and so lost and so unredeemable, but most of all I felt unworthy. And of course I am unworthy.
Even after that, oh yes, it was a cherished experience, but even after that I did not believe in "that" God. I had begun a spiritual seeking phase, and carried on in that for another sixteen (that should have said 15) years until God clearly called me out of what I was doing. And yes, even after that, even after that clear calling out, my stiff-necked stubbornness was so set against Him it took another year following the calling out for me to surrender my life to Him.
Even after that, oh yes, it was a cherished experience, but even after that I did not believe in "that" God. I had begun a spiritual seeking phase, and carried on in that for another sixteen (that should have said 15
) years until God clearly called me out of what I was doing. And yes, even after that, even after that clear calling out, my stiff-necked stubbornness was so set against Him it took another year following the calling out for me to surrender my life to Him.
