Featured Haunted workplace

Since they started living in Democrats

 

Working alone in an empty building can actually be a frightening experience. I had to do checks in an abandoned building which was part of a hospital. The psych ward was in the basement and it looked like something from a horror movie (old green tile, glass with bullet holes). Sometimes homeless people would hide in the old rooms. It's a wonder I didn't have a heart attack.

Maybe this will help the next time you are in that situation: the idea devils are opening and closing doors is just mysticism ingrained in our culture. Some substitute the older myths of ghosts with devils to try and make their ideas more Christian. Paul tells us that our struggle is not against flesh and blood (not against the material but the spiritual...not against devils opening and closing doors but against spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places). We fight against the rulers, the powers, and world forces of this darkness.

If that doesn't help, then think of it this way - what you are suggesting is foreign to Scripture itself. There are absolutely no examples in the Bible of devils operating in the manner you have suggested they operate. As Christians we get our worldview from Scripture. So you are safe to dismiss the idea devils are haunting your workplace.

 

I never argued against the truth that demons have only the power to do as much as God allows them. I am arguing instead for consistency and the immutable nature of God.

 

There are endless (to use a literary device I've invented called exaggeration).possibilities. For example, it could have been a mechanical failure (I've seen things that took me a month to figure out, but ended up being mechanical). It could have been someone playing a trick on an overly superstitious man. It could have been God. It could have been an overactive imagination. It could have been a lack of attention towards detail (I lean towards this one). Or it could have been a spiritual force tempting you into more mysticism (we are tempted from without, but in regards to what is within).

Do you have an example from Scripture of a devil opening doors? What do you think the purpose of such things would be? Why do you think that such things are not recorded throughout the biblical historic record?

 

Yes. The apostolic church had common meals. This would be along the line of potlucks. Youth ministry and choirs fall into discipleship and worship. You are off base here (probably why you have devils opening and closing doors for you).

Potlucks, youth ministry, choirs, bus ministries, Wednesday night services...these kinds of things we find in contemporary churches are not "unbiblical" because they are expressions of what is taught in the Bible. You are holding a pagan idea of devils and declaring it possible because their power does not exceed God's authority.

Personally I think this thread is misplaced. It needs to be in a "Pagan/Christian" category so as to leave the Baptist Theology & Bible Study section for topics that are actually biblical. But unfortunately we don't have that category.

 

Yes. People are stupid.