Ambush Bug, on 11 December 2012 - 11:08 PM, said:
The dangers of being misled into false beliefs, believing in something that is not only false but dangerous. Believing in spiritual matters that are intentionally leading you down the wrong path, encouraging and giving you a false impression all is well. But it is not, it is opening doors and one is becoming a medium or a conductor or conduit (collect the all eggs in one basket, deceiving and being deceived). The reason, to mislead people away from genuine spiritual truth and their salvation and get them absorbed into quackery and silliness... into New Age self realization and neo-shamanism.
How do we know it is God that gives people the ability to tune into this vast spiritual realm (if they indeed tune into this vast spiritual realm)? And furthermore, what evidence can you present that you yourself can tune into this vast spiritual realm?
You claim there is no such things as demons or evil entities, how do we know you even tuned into the spiritual realm or even contacted spirits? For all we know, you could be self-delusional if not a self invention of your public image?
Now just bear with me a moment if your are the former than maybe you should see a doctor but if you are the latter than you are a most dishonest human being the perfect instrument to be used by evil entities to put naive gullible people who are seeking self re-enforcement, New Age self realization, and positive thinking under your thrall (and their's *the evil entities* because they are using you to perform their will in order to deceive others.)
Ambush Bug, I think you are overkilling it. This discussion was ended long time back.
Seeker agrees to the the possibility that demons exist and that he may have been decieved by them and agrees that he doesn't have any proof that demons and evil spirits don't exist.
He confessed to this in this very thread:
Seeker79, on 22 October 2012 - 10:16 AM, said:
I do not have full knowledge of the great mystery all I can do is call it how I see it. Might some demon have pulled the wool over my eyes... maybe. Might they be hideing from me... Maybe. Somehow I doubt it. And yes it's just an opinion.
Seeker79, on 24 October 2012 - 05:01 AM, said:
im sorry I don't have any proof demons and evil spirits don't exist
He accepts the possibility that his beliefs may be wrong. What's left to argue after that? Are you seeking to make him admit that his beliefs are wrong and yours are right? Then that's not happening.
The clash between Transcendental Monotheism and Paganism/Polytheism/Pantheism is not new. Transcendental Monotheism and the idea of a spiritual evil is not limited to Abrahamic religions or "Middle Eastern Mythologies". It was there in many other societies throughout history. It's illogical to assume that throughout the history of mankind no one ever believed in the trasncendental God and a spiritual evil and that they came up with this idea only a few thousand years back. Moreover it is self-contradictory to claim at one hand that the belief in demons is "primitive" and "guessing a lion in the grass" and then to claim that the idea was invented in the middle east only a few thousand years back.
Let others assume that they are a part of God and that demons are a part of those who differ from them. It's not going to change anything. To each his own beliefs.
This debate has been going on for thousands of years. And it will go on. A few posts in a thread on the internet is not going to change anything. Lets acknowledge that everyone is entitled to his beliefs and move on.