[betty boop]

“You should also know the following subterfuge of the demons: at times they divide themselves into groups. Some come with a temptation; and when you ask for help others come in the guise of angels and chase away the first, to make you believe that they are true angels, and fall into vainglory, through having been granted such a thing.”

Is the above biblical?

I ask that as a Roman Catholic, who is often criticized by members of the reformed sects for honoring the tradition of Magisterium of the Church....

[hosepipe]

[“You should also know the following subterfuge of the demons: at times they divide themselves into groups. Some come with a temptation; and when you ask for help others come in the guise of angels and chase away the first, to make you believe that they are true angels, and fall into vainglory, through having been granted such a thing.”]

Did you learn that from the Screwtape Letter?..

[Kolokotronis]

“Is the above biblical?”

Not that I am aware of. +Nilus of Sinai, though a noted theologian and biblical scholar of his time, also wrote from his own ascetical experience. Does something need to be “biblical” to be of value to our theosis, bb? Surely you haven’t fallen that far from the Magisterium, have you?

+Nilus was canonized by The Church; the one which established the canon of the NT. He is considered an Eastern Father. That is sufficient for any Catholic absent a demonstration that a teaching of a Father is outside the consensus patrum. Are you aware of anything written by +Nilus which is outside the consensus patrum, bb? You may not like what he said; there is no question but that he would soundly and loudly reject any notion of a sort of Universalism in Christianity; in fact, just as both the Latin Church and Orthodoxy declare such notions heretical today.