The father of lies can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past—subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.
Being alive and free in Christ is part of positional sanctification, which is the basis for progressive sanctification. In other words, we are not trying to become children of God, we are children of God who are becoming like Christ.
1. Demons were active when Christ was on earth, but their activity has subsided. Christians who hold this view are not embracing the whole counsel of God in light of what His Word says, nor are they facing reality. The New Testament clearly states that believers will wrestle “against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this ...
If your biblical worldview does not include the kingdom of darkness, then either God or you will have to take a bum rap for all the corruption Satan is foisting on you and the rest of the world.
2. What the early church called demonic activity we now understand to be mental illness. Such statements undermine the credibility of Scripture. Divine revelation is infallible.
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