[boatbums]

Yes, we do. Many people are caught up in the mystical, or, what I call the “woo-woo” aspect of faith. Some people I've known can turn the simplest mundane thing into a supernatural experience. Always searching for an experience instead of the truth. Often, if I tried to tell them what the Bible said about something, they refused to hear it because of what they experienced and that mattered far more! It can be an insidious trap, one that Satan particularly likes to set. You're right about some people just being too lazy to search out the truth. It's just too easy for them to listen to others and swallow hook, line and sinker whatever they're told. Unfortunately, too many Christians are exactly like sheep who will follow whoever tickles their ears and promises excitement - hopping from one "revival" to the next. A very spiritually dangerous thing to do!

[caww]

........”if I tried to tell them what the Bible said about something, they refused to hear it because of what they “experienced” and that mattered far more! It can be an insidious trap, one that Satan particularly likes to set.”.........

They refuse, boatbums, because should they realize their error they would then “feel” foolish and a whole host of other “feelings”....especially when they realize they’ve in turn drawn others into the deceptions, and oftentimes away from Christ Jesus,..... so it can be emotionally overwhelming to them..... It’s easier to just keep going and falsely “belief” what they imagine they see...and that justify it as so, for in their mind if it wasn’t from God he’d have intervened to stop it.

I will also say that believing in this “stuff” will lead peoeple to seeking “experiencings” over that of faith. I have know people who go this root ...they eventually start questioning Gods Word...then they go so far as denying it...and we know where that path then leads them.