Demonizing Anything New

It's man's tendency to always fear the unknown. Or, he may get curious, check it out but later screw up. That curiosity is often just a branch of fear, anxiety that cannot be pacified unless you get to the bottom of things---though you already have a ready conclusion before you get to the bottom of things. That's fear, fear of accepting the truth.

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This fear of the unknown---or fear of accepting the truth---makes us demean or vilify anything new or strange to us. Like learning that salvation is solely by believing in Jesus after people have, for centuries, been doing good religious works and sacrifices to please God so he'd somehow overlook our sins. Some people curiously checked this out in the bible, not to objectively know the truth, but to prove that salvation through faith in Jesus alone is wrong. That's fear. 

"...anyone who believes in HIM should not perish 

but have everlasting life."

Now, it also applies to medicine and technology when what people mistake to be "faith" (but is actually fear) collides with new finds in science. Galileo was condemned and prosecuted by the church when he maintained that the sun was the center of the solar system, not the earth (heliocentrism).  Also, a lot of Christians demonized Covid vaccines as some precursor of the mark of the beast, if not the mark itself. The Y2K virus was feared as the end of the world. What most church people do not understand they quickly label as demons.

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There were also accusations of some products being demonic and patronage of the same meant backsliding or apostacy. If you buy coffee from Starbucks you're financing Satan (not realizing giving money to man's church finances Satan). When you lack spiritual discernment---I mean, the real thing---you will use your carnal judgment and just accuse anything new to you or what you cannot understand. 

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Paul for instance, boarded a ship that had two idols perched in front of it as protection. He bought tickets for him and his companions, so that made him "finance" Satan? He understood that children of God cannot be harmed or affected by cults or the occult, even he boarded a ship dedicated to their gods. 

11 After three months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered in the island—it was an Alexandrian ship with the figurehead of the twin gods Castor and Pollux.

[Acts 28]

The Pharisees and law teachers fought everything Jesus said and did with full force simply because of their fear of the unknown, or the new and strange things Jesus did. That spirit of fear still lives today in a lot of churches, even those claiming to be born again, resenting anything that their denominational doctrine doesn't recognize, even fearing and denouncing the very move of God in these times.

Some claim to be doing radical and strange things, too, which traditional Christians find apprehensive. But these are really nothing like what Jesus, the apostles and prophets did in the bible. They're merely things they got or copied from the world and try to apply in their ministries. They call that "radical." But it's still on the level of the earthly. It's nothing supernatural.

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When something new and strange makes an appearance, it's best to ask the Holy Spirit for spiritual discernment to test every spirit. Everything you see or everything that happens has a spirit behind it, even things material or utterly mundane. Even everyday activities like commuting, working, schooling, doing groceries and the like, you encounter spirits controlling or hiding in things or people. What more in mysterious and eerie things?

Be sure that genuine children of God can never be harmed by anything demonic. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, remember? No curse can work. This is what we have as sons and daughters in Christ, being co-heirs with Jesus.

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

[Isaiah 54.17]

Stop demonizing everything you find different, unusual, scary or too off tangent from your church doctrine. Relax. Even if it is demonic or harmful in anyway, you are protected by the blood of Jesus---if you are a true child of God. A lot of genuine moves of God in the bible were scary and ominous. The chosen people of God were dead scared about how Mt Sinai looked when God descended there. The Passover where all the first-born found outside the protection of the blood of the lamb were slain---that was scary, even looked evil. Not to mention the Flood and Sodom and Gomorrah. 

The important thing is to be deep in the Word and the Holy Spirit, and not be paranoid.