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Just stay prayed up and in the bible, that will be sufficient!

 

If I act now, can I get a second kit and just pay handling?

 

I've seen things I couldn't explain before, such as a strange gathering of lights in the night sky that was moving silently as my eleven year old son and I looked on. Scripture obviously teaches that there are designated places for believers and unbelievers to go once passed on, and my take on ghosts or spirits and even ufo's has always been attributed to Satan's minions, seeing how he is the prince of the power of the air. We know he roams the earth doing what God allows, it just seems reasonable that he can lead people into mysticism and away from the Gospel by perpetrating such acts. Comments? Questions? Rude remarks?

 

How are Satan's minions making lights appear in the sky?

Are they:
--demons piloting physical spacecraft with lights on?
--demons deceiving your brain into seeing lights in the sky where there are no lights?
--demons flying around appearing as lights in the sky?
--demons somehow making lights appear in the sky?

some other explanation for how Satan makes UFOs appear in the sky?

 

I'm sure there is some sort of unholy pilot's license.

 

My point is, there are lots of folks running around out there looking for any and all kinds of signs that point to something other than God. Mysticism and UFO's top the list.

 

. . . and to think that this post may have appeared on the BB home page.

 

I agree with you. So where can we stand firmly as believers when it applies to things that are legitimately inexplicable without trying to Christianize it? I'm not given to conspiracy theories, ghost stories, or aliens or their so-called abductions. I'm not lured into the mystical. I can't, however, ascribe things in these categories to something outside of creation, including the spiritual realm. I know scripture is without details on much of this and I personally think it's because it's addressed in a general fashion, such as what you have mentioned above. The true battles we face everyday are of a spiritual nature. If part of Satan's nature as a roaring lion is to seek out and devour and destroy, it follows that his cohorts do the same, does it not? My son and I are standing in the driveway one warm summer night in the country looking up at the night sky. We do this often because we enjoy looking for asteroids and shooting stars and it usually leads to a discussion of creation. This particular night, there are no sounds of aircraft or traffic. At the end of the cul-de-sac, approx. 100-150 yards away, there are some lights in just some odd formation that at first we thought were stationary, but then we realize they are moving. There is no twinkling or flashing and the movement is very slow. The altitude was roughly 500-1000 feet. We watched for probably ten minutes, talking about it and how it was without sound, pondered the possibility of it, and then went inside. I have no idea what it was but I don't teach my son about aliens because there is no scripture to back that up, but spiritual powers on this earth that perform such acts, or at the least make us think we're seeing something, I think is a very real possibility. Anyone weak in their faith or having no believing faith in Christ and looking for meaning could easily be duped into believing in "higher forms of life" or "E.T.", which in turn can create all kinds of problems for a non-believer including spiritual demise if their eyes aren't opened to the truth. That's the trick isn't it? If Satan can create doubt about truth just as he did in the garden, then there's plenty of room for everything else in the human heart and mind. All he has to do is muddy the water a little, convert the one truth into many false truths, take focus off of God and his own existence, and from that point on it can easily go in any direction. Have we forgotten where relativism does? Am I way off base here? It's just me, right? Gone too far in my incoherent rant?

 

Ignore the lights.
Ignore the fantastical.
Just pay heed to the Lord and his path before you.

These are just distractions used to waste our attention on.

Also, didn't doors open of themselves for Peter one night?
Remember?

 

I understand and I certainly don't count myself among the most intelligent in this or any other area, and I'm not a "god of the gaps" supporter either so I'm not constantly looking to insert a spiritual answer where there may not be one. If my personal thoughts on the issue are misplaced then I certainly want to admit it and learn from it. I think I should point out that I don't lose sleep over these things and I'm not trying to uncover some covert demonic operation. I continue to believe however, that these things can and do draw people away from God and it just seems that the church rarely has a solid answer to an unbelieving world. Science can answer much of it, I agree. But there are always a few things that take us by surprise. The first time I heard a mountain lion howl in the middle of the night, well, let's just say that my skin crawled because it sounded like no animal. Maybe I'm just trying too hard on this and I'm digging my own hole a little deeper. I try to remain teachable. On a lighter note, I lived in Atlanta for several years and the one thing I witnessed that was always miraculous was how anyone survived traffic on GA 400, 285, 85, and 75 on a daily basis.

 

They can appear to do things beyond physical laws, as not bound with them as we are, being flesh and blood, and they also can affect human perceptions, see Fatima!

 

Think that he has more important things to be doing with his time, for he knows it is short!

 

My mother sliced open a potato a few years ago and found the likeness of Jesus......really! Of course I gave her the look. Going forward, I'm making a decision to scoff 90% of the time and the other 10% will be just for kicks and giggles.