How do things really stand?

Originally posted on February 02, 2008 – by Andre Piet

From a visitor to the Goedbericht site I received a question by email about the currently popular shows surrounding the well-known phenomenon Uri Geller. I wrote back the following to her:

“I watched the new Uri Geller show for about half an hour this evening. What do I think of it? In my view it is mainly a big show of special effects. You only have to look at Henkjan Smits’s face and you already know enough… That does not take away from the fact that I do take phenomena such as telepathy, telekinesis and things like that quite seriously. But (unlike others) I do not see demonical conditions in that in themselves. Those only come into play when spirits are invoked and the dead are consulted. Think of Jomanda, who says she received her ‘gift’ from her deceased grandfather and who constantly receives messages ‘from the other side.’ Or think of the medium Char, who also claims to communicate with the spirits of the dead. Well, forget it. That is pure demonic deception. For the dead know nothing, says the Bible in unmistakable language (Ecclesiastes 9 verse 5). If spirits present themselves as the dead, then you know in advance that deception must be at work here. There lies the critical boundary.”

Do not let yourself be driven crazy by the shows on SBS6, but certainly not by the fearmongering of Christians either. Choose as your motto what Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 10:

Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, asking no questions on account of conscience, for the earth and its fullness are the Lord’s.
(verses 25 and 26).

There you go! For us (who believe), the world and everything in it belong to the LORD and to no one else! It is emphatically not “the domain of the serpent.” That latter is precisely what “the ancient serpent” would like to make us believe! Whoever, out of fear, continually asks questions, seems—without realizing it—to be enchanted by him…

Hopefully now a bit clearer how the fork fits the handle?
All the best to you!
– André –

P.S. (Wednesday, March 12, 2008)
When I wrote the above, I was not yet aware that Uri Geller is indeed also a promoter of the idea that death is an illusion. He also says that as a child he saw a spirit apparition (UFO) and is involved together with Ronald Jan Heijn in the film Staya Erusa, in which a lance is broken for the New Age philosophy of evolution, reincarnation and spiritism.
Duly noted…

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