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These other factors are certainly relevant. The accounts that you share are sobering. Thanks for that information. Unfortunately, I have encountered Christians both here on BB and elsewhere who are very skeptical about and dismissive of the notion that much authentic demonic activity takes...

My questions were not intended to express either that there is or there isn't doctrinal or practical significance to this question. I am interested to see if you have anything directly from Scripture that you think pertains to whether there is any such significance. As for guarding against...

Does the Bible teach us the doctrinal or practical importance of determining precisely when Satan's fall was? If so, where and how does it do so?

Why should you come together into one place in God's house on this Lord's Day with the whole church (1 Cor. 14:23)? Because God wants all the church to be edified (1 Cor. 14:3, 5, 12, 26), exhorted (1 Cor. 14:3), and comforted (1 Cor. 14:3, 31)! Because God wants all the church to learn (1...

Scripture plainly records instances of authentic demonic activity in the world. What should Christians therefore believe about the true extent of authentic demonic activity in world history and in our day?

Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord...

Your understanding is not right because it does not account for all that the Bible explicitly says. Jesus explicitly said that a man who lusts after a woman in his heart commits adultery with her in his heart (Matt. 5:28). Moreover, Jesus explicitly spoke of thoughts being evil: Matthew 15:19...

Proverbs 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words. Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts...

According to explicit biblical statements, God did curse the ground for Adam's sake after the Fall, but the text of Genesis 3 does not say anywhere that God cursed Adam and Eve: Genesis 3:17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the...

I did not make any claim that it means that God presently does.

Not true. God is worthy of glory from all beings. If they do so willingly, that is far better, but if they will not do it willingly, they will still give God the glory that is due His name. Vast multitudes of humans who have never loved God or enjoyed Him and never will love or enjoy Him will...

I detest preterism and am a futurist. Yes, it is a future event, but what it reveals proves what God ultimately will receive from all His creation--worship to His glory!

Wow. Really? This is a very serious denial on your part. You think that Satan and his demons are so special that they deserve special treatment from God so that they are exempted from worshiping God and glorifying Him? Absolutely not true! They most certainly will be forced to give all the...

Yes. Rev. 5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and...

Actually, no. Satan and his demons do not love or enjoy God, but they still have to glorify Him by worshiping Him.

This is an important question, but the subject of the thread is not just what believers are to do.

Revelation 14:6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is...

Scripture reveals that humans are obligated toward God in many ways: loving God, glorifying God, worshiping God, etc. What is the greatest obligation that all humans have toward God?

The perfect wisdom of God has intentionally only given general information to God's people to warn them from having anything to do with the occult. Sadly, many Christians, in effect, reject that wisdom by holding that using certain things from occultists is perfectly acceptable for believers...

I agree that being unsaved, they have no protection. It's also true that when the unsaved chose to engage in occult activities, they make it easier for them to be possessed.