holobon said on
For some, attempting to heal means playing God.
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Laying on of hands is what Jesus did & many see it as blasphemy to try & do the same.
And yet, there's John 14:12:
"Verily, verily I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he shall do also, and greater works than these shall he do, because I go to the Father." Wouldn't it be nice if "Christians" who charge others w/ blasphemy would at least READ THE BIBLE before speaking?
>IMHO, thoughts create the demons we fear. Negative thoughts do more damage than anything else. To me, that is the basis of Christ's teachings. If you think negatively, the thought creates a life of it's own, it eats into your brain & your spirit. When Christ taught that thinking of a sinful act was the same as doing it, it was not about creating guilt for our very human thoughts but recognizing the sequence, that evil begins begins with a negative thought. Any demons are created by negativity and all it's brothers, fear and anger, etc.
I'm going to drift further off topic here, but I find it interesting that in the Biblical stories, following Jesus' baptism experience and the 40 days in the wilderness, the demons were the first to recognize Jesus as Son of God. See Matthew 8:28-29, Mark 3:11, Luke 4:41. From which, if one accepts the Biblical statements, it seems that at least some Biblical demons aren't the same as humans' mental constructs. Anyway, and FWIW.
Bruce
