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To: xJones
I know exactly what you mean. It is very easy to develop an unhealthy fascination with the supernatural in general and the devil in particular. I don't like reading accounts of true experinces of this kind of thing as it doesn't just spook me, like a good ghost story, but it actually sets off a tiny sense of panic which I have to treat like a temptation: pray and then think about holy things. The most we really need to know, I think, is:

1. Satan and his angels are real and they hate us.
2. God is in control and Christ has already won.
3. My job as a Christian soldier is not to get to know the enemy, but to fight where I am sent. I am in the Infantry, not Intelligence.

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in our day of battle...
31 posted on 01/09/2004 8:06:00 PM PST by fidelis (fidelis)
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To: fidelis
We agree. Paul loved the Church at Philippi so much, he had less complaints to them than any other church he wrote to.

And he instructed them: Phil:4:8

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things..

I guess that means among other things to not give way to the evil one in your thoughts.

33 posted on 01/10/2004 12:35:07 PM PST by xJones
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