The Satan worshipper posted on a Christian forum for two years. She was straightforward about herself and her doings including participating in Satanic abduction-torture-murder rituals and even invited herself overseas to one of the regular posters who had her visit for a while, then after that she said something nasty to him on the forum and we never heard from him again. I talked to her for hundreds of posts, mostly because she was very interested in me. I basically preached the truth to her without holding anything back, including that Satan, whom she met regularly in visions, would betray her and use her soul as his personal dart board. She was real and admins never booted her. I can assure you that we have never had any posters who have been remotely close to what she was, on this forum.
I should mention that I read and posted a little on a Satanism forum (totally different nick) a year or two before she showed up. This was back in the nineties. There were a lot of kids on that forum but some of the posters were of the same kind as her, so I feel qualified to have an opinion about what she was, apart from the reality of her spell casting.
CatchyUsername (03-26-2016)
I am of the persuasion that the Bible talks a lot about issues that are important and at least some about issues that are somewhat important. You cannot find one single solitary verse on the matter of the great danger of having hands layed on you by a christian minister who quite possibly is not walking right since yesterday. Not in the Bible and not quoted in any of your books.
How many verses are there in the new testament ? Id guess around 10,000. Is this a contemporary issue like nuclear missiles ? Nope. You can find hundreds of verses on avoiding false teachings, and avoiding false ministers in general. Nothing that singles out the onlaying of hands as especially important in the negative sense.
Do I have the Holy Spirit ? Yes, I have the Holy Spirit. He is quite capable of telling me what not to do in specific situations where the Bible doesnt speak specifically, without my making a general doctrine out of past experiences.
curly sue (03-26-2016), Ezekiel 33 (03-28-2016)
There's nothing to comment on.
That is where I am at in all of this. It is not taught in scripture. The teachings on the doctrine of laying on of hands in the NT are for healing and placing someone into service in the ministry. There are no other teachings that I can bring to memory or dig up in the scriptures.
If the vessel is full of the Holy Spirit, there is no room for other spirits. Maybe another reason we are told to "be being filled" as in continually.
The only power demons have in the life of a believer is the power that they give to demons. When we buy into a demonic lie, then we open a door for demonic activity.
If you could be cursed by a demonized person touching you, then the slave girl and Elymas the sorcerer would have been all over Paul, trying to touch him and do their master's bidding. Simon would have also went out of his way to lay hands on Phillip in Acts 8 instead of allowing the gospel to be preached.
They have no power over us unless we allow them power.
curly sue (03-28-2016)
curly sue (03-28-2016)