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Do many of you believe that The enemy (the Devil) is behind evill things such as the 911 attacks and the VT shootings?

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Since no one has replied yet... I will go ahead and state my outlook toward it. I believe all things are inspired by good or evil... God being good and the Devil being evil. We have many new diagnosis about different disorders that people have. I am going to mention a few but please do not become offended if you know someone with these disorders. ADHD, Add, Bi- Polar and so on.... years ago you never heard of these did you? We can say 2 things happened here either it took the science department hundreds of years to figure things out or we are just labling behaviors and putting a name on them. Remember when Jesus was in the boats with his Disciples and he went to Legion and cast the demons out and they went into the swine and the swine drowned? He never said hey you are skitso.. or hey you are Bi-Polar.. he said come out of him.... I believe whatever we allow to control our mind will overtake us... our thoughts are powerful and eventually become actions. I do not understand everything about so called disorders and I am not a doctor but I believe it can be demonic influences... anyone have any comments on this?

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So let's see...do you think gravity is inspired by good or evil? Or is it just some phenomenon that Newton thought up to scientifically explain something God/Devil controlled by scientific means? I mean, think about it--had we ever heard of gravity before the 1680's? [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Look--just because something is scientifically explained doesn't mean it is demonic or divinely inspired. It doesn't mean that it's not either, though. I'm sure there's plenty of forces that we cannot scientifically explain in this world that are driven by forces of good & evil.

However--if you want to look at diseases--track it back to the Garden. When the devil tempted Eve into taking of the tree of life and eating the fruit, and then Eve gave the fruit to Adam...that intrinsically made all of us innately depraved. (NOTE--this is if we're tracing things back from the beginning of the Bible.)

Now--if you take the concept of innate depravity and expand it out a little bit--it basically means born of sin, and perfection cannot exist in the presence of sin, so thusly--we are imperfect beings from the start.

Since we are imperfect beings, our bodies aren't going to stay healthy due to environmental factors created by our own free will, choices we've made to pollute and royally screw up our earth from what God intended for it to be. I feel that a bit of Darwinism will tell us that the more imperfect beings breed with each other and have offspring, the more that we will all be susceptible to disease.

So it's not demonic possession--it's more likely a function of an increase in biomedical knowledge along with the continual creation of increasingly genetically imperfect offspring.

Take it or leave it--that's my thought and the logic behind it.