Examining Faith

Many of us have heard stories of strange occurrences involving people with strange powers, multiple personalities, wild anger and even speaking languages they have never themselves known. Around us, millions are dabbling in spiritism and the occult, letting “advice” from mysterious spirits influence how they live their lives. Do you know where many of these strange occurrences originate? Do you understand the danger posed by Satan and his demons?

Whether it is tales of global warming gone amok, aliens arriving, or giant meteors destroying vast regions, it seems that movie-makers have long “had it in” for planet Earth and its inhabitants. One extreme example of this is the movie “2012″ — based on the primes that the Mayan calendar and other sources predict the end of civilization as we know it in December 2012. But what does the Bible say about 2012? And what should you and your loved ones be doing to prepare?

One of the great challenges Christians find in accepting the possibility of radical healing (especially “energy healing” technologies like Reiki) is many think that if they actively participate in bringing about the healing of body, mind, or spirit, that this fact alone will tarnish the image of Jesus, and will “dumb him down” to being merely a human being with “some healing powers.”

Don Feder, editor of the Boycott The New York Times website, called a Times editorial demanding “equal space” for the display of religious symbols part of the paper’s “relentless drive to secularize society.”

In a November 12 editorial, The Times urged the Supreme Court to rule that a Ten Commandments display in a public park in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, violated the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause because the municipality rejected a request by a group called Summum, which wanted to erect its own monument.