Quote: "But doesn't that mean they have won, since you believe in them? Or am I missing something? (tone: curious)"
Ok here's the part where I break the AUP, so don't anyone get offended please, and mods if it needs to be deleted, go ahead, I just have to say what I need to. It's in code brackets, so if you don't like to read "religious" stuff, don't read it. And if you do read it, don't ruin this thread for everyone else and try to debate me. Contact me off the forums using my AIM address below this post.
I don't mean just by believing they exist. I mean like
people who are ghost hunters for example, who spend their
entire life searching for something that doesn't exist in the
way they think it does. Sure, that "ghost" of grandma has
been haunting the house for 10 years, but it's not really
grandma. It's a demon deceiving them. They end up devoting
their life trying to figure out if this one thing exists, when
they are completely overlooking God and his plan for their
lives. They ignore His existence and yet try to prove a false
sense of spirituality.
They exist, and I believe they are there, but I don't believe
that it's actually my Grandma, or Grandpa contacting me from
the dead. The demons scare you into believing that they are
the only higher power out there. They offer something more
than just blind faith, so many people grasp it. These people
have found a spiritual being that they know exists, whether
it's evil or not, so they choose to believe it and scoff at
belief in God since they have never seen Him. My belief in
God requires faith. God proved himself long ago, he doesn't
need to do it again. If people miss the evidence for His
existence all around us, then that is their own problem.
Ok, I reread that, it's sorta hard to understand what I mean I suppose, but it's hard to describe it exactly.
Sometimes the only way over a wall is to pile up enough bodies to climb over - Dave W.