Sonic247
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I've been reading testimonies from Christians that used to practice witchcraft, here is one interesting one. The Testimony of Valerie Duffy (From Witch to Rich--in Jesus!)
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The less scientific understanding you have, the more you rely on superstition and magic to help explain the happenings around you.What is the correlation between being underdeveloped and possessing an increased knowledge of the spiritual realm?
The less scientific understanding you have, the more you rely on superstition and magic to help explain the happenings around you.
What is the correlation between being underdeveloped and possessing an increased knowledge of the spiritual realm?
Yeah, but what you gonna do?That would have been my first guess but I don't think that's what most people who believe in the spiritual realm accept.
Some people allow themselves to not be blind to the limitations of the human mind.Yeah, but what you gonna do?
Heh, I'm well aware of the limitations of the human brain. I just don't see those limitations as granting us the power to commune with spirits.Some people allow themselves to not be blind to the limitations of the human mind.
meh, i've read testimonies like this before. while i have doubt that it is even true, i just see this as proselytizing. "this person got messed up by witchcraft, but fixed through Christianity!". it's nothing but a cheap shot really.
Lots of people testify to the converse too. They say Christianity messed them up but they found something much better and healthier for them in Wicca.
that is true, i myself have posted much to that effect in the past here, but most Pagans or variations there of only talk about that when asked, they don't jump out of nowhere with an impromptu thread and post it in people's faces. that's the difference between discussing religious conversions and the reasons/motives behind such conversions, and proselytizing for your religion. this thread is the latter.
meh, i've read testimonies like this before. while i have doubt that it is even true, i just see this as proselytizing. "this person got messed up by witchcraft, but fixed through Christianity!". it's nothing but a cheap shot really.
Lots of people testify to the converse too. They say Christianity messed them up but they found something much better and healthier for them in Wicca.
I really don't know. It just seems to work out that way. There could be other factors also, like peoples religious practices that open people up to that kind of stuff. In nations like America people aren't looking for spiritual things as much, but material things. Did you ever notice that when you get into something you see it where you never noticed it before. When I started playing guitar I noticed guitar parts in commercials that I wouldn't before. Of course I always noticed them in songs but they began to stand out more. If I walk through a flea market I will probably notice any guitars, and I imagine a mechanic would notice if there were tools for sale. So in short maybe we notice only material things because that's all that's on our minds.What is the correlation between being underdeveloped and possessing an increased knowledge of the spiritual realm?
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.