And while I am familiar with the writings of Watchman Nee and those like him, I do not see anywhere in the scritpures where it is advocated that we seek such a dept of spiritual enlightment...
As Watchman Nee points out, his initial training and education into the spiritual realm was long before he became a Christian and did not involve Jesus Christ...
You start getting intimate with the spirit world, you're getting way beyond where I am willing to go...
I am completely skeptical of anyone who comes along with claims of the knowledge of the spirit world to begin with and anyone has those claims had better have the witness of Jesus Christ...Or we will know who their real father is...
The study of the soul is really fascinating...I've delved into it a little but not enough to know anything...
“I am completely skeptical of anyone who comes along with claims of the knowledge of the spirit world to begin with and anyone has those claims had better have the witness of Jesus Christ...Or we will know who their real father is...”
Totally agree. That was my comment earlier in a post. Always be skeptical. Even when what you perceive appears logical.
About 15 yrs ago, I was working with a woman and we said prayers together as she was having problems. All of a sudden, two spirits showed up and identified themselves as her deceased grandparents. Everything they said sounded logical, but my gut told me there was a problem.
All of a sudden, the words came out of my mouth (that I had never read) asking these two spirits if they believed that Jesus was born of the flesh? They responded, “We know Jesus.”
The words then came out of my mouth “That was not the question!” and the original question was repeated. At this time their blue eyes turned to black and then to red as they were imitators, trying to trick me. It was only later that I found the words uttered from my mouth as 1 John 4:1 on testing spirits.
The Holy Spirit working through me saved my ass and the woman with me. I am forever indebted and try to be the best servant possible. My strength in such matters only comes through my personal weakness.
A house divided against itself will fall. Dark forces have tried to kill me for many years and if it were not for Divine intervention, I would have been dead many times. For that I am eternally grateful. I have a tape recording of a demon exclaiming that he was trying to kill me as I am ruining their plans. It took over a woman’s body and voice and the recording was during its removal. It makes the hair stand up just listening to it.
That’s one thing I like about Catholicism, it has not discounted the Bible as much as many of the Protestants have relating to spirits and spiritual matters.