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Originally Posted by Igzy
God never says, "This person is my mouthpiece. Never contradict anything he speaks and always do what he says and I will reward you greatly!" That's the stupidest thing ever, a guaranteed disaster sooner or later. But that's how the LR thinks. The insidiousness of it is that once you let that hook get planted in your mind, its hard to free yourself from it, because it is self-reinforcing. It's like one of those traps in which the more you struggle the tighter it gets. The more you question it the more it condemns you. It defies all reason to the contrary. People succumb to it out of exhaustion and fear.
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It is so
stupid....how can it be so effective? There has to be an evil spirit working behind the scene. Itīs a spell, just like in 3:1 "O
foolish Galatians....."Who has
bewitched you.."
other translations say, ....
senseless, stupid, thoughtless Galatians, who...
cast a spell on you
cunningly deceived you
hypnotized you
cast an evil spell on you
put you under a spell
put you under an evil spell
sophistry has bewitched you
There must be spiritual forces of evil, an authority of darkness, maybe even something specific like a "prince of the Recovery". These are deceiving spirits and teachings of demons. Similarly, the same forces behind allowing fornication, adultery and drunkenness to go on unreproved in the name of "life", respecting persons over God, man's word over God's word, and fearing man and not in the fear of God.