UPDATE:I've been provided information by a reader about Doreen Virtue and the possibility that she is not what she would like us to believe. I deal with it more fully in my next article, but suffice it to say the red flag (for now), is the way she invokes the idea that "God told" her to do something. This is actually going back to the tenets of the New Age movement and it should be avoided. The idea that God "speaks" to us is something I got used to when I was involved in the Charismatic Movement in the 1970s. What it winds up doing is elevating the "voice" we hear within over and above God's written Word. This is a no no. It should not be happening. Certainly, God can prompt us in a certain direction. He may also provide ideas to us either as a result of our own prayers or in council with other mature Christians that help us know which direction to take. But the idea that God "speaks" to us is not valid because that whole area becomes extrabiblical and places the Bible in a secondary position.
The only way we can "know" if God is in fact, "speaking" to us or not, is through the validation of our emotions. If it feels as though it is squaring with God's Word, then we are more apt to accept that voice. But the problem with that is that Satan, who masquerades as an angel of light, will not start out of the gate presenting lies. He will quite often present things that sound very biblical. Over time, he will begin drawing us away from God's Word and a reliance on Him, and into a full dependence upon the "voice" we're hearing in our minds. We need to reject this at all costs.
I note that Virtue has stated she was planning on suing people for what she calls "defamation" about her. This is not something that Christians should be doing as Paul warns, but instead, we should leave it in God's hands. The video I highlight in this particular article is, from what I can tell, right on. There is nothing I disagree with her about on that particular video. However, it is something that I should have looked at in more detail regarding other videos and teachings she has presented. So a word of caution here to people who watched the video and liked it, thinking that she appears to be on solid biblical ground. She may well be, but she may not as well. Proceed with caution and I'll have more about Virtue next time!
I'm getting tired of reading these words: "died suddenly." It's become common place and epidemic. Famous people and professional athletes are dying suddenly and no one asks questions. Some are older, but many are very young, though few seem concerned. However when people start dying closer to home it makes it worse.
Just this morning I received an email blast from our church secretary noting one of our members "died suddenly" last night. He was 33, married and leaves three young children. This is tragic yet it is becoming a new normal because it is common place now. Why is no one allowed to ask questions or insinuate the possibility that something very specific is the culprit. While the elephant in the room is being completely ignored that elephant is taking on a life of its own and mocking those who continue to ignore it.
Instead of intelligently addressing the issue, anyone who questions anything is immediately labeled "anti-vax." We are being unequivocally told that all these sudden deaths are due to "climate change" in some form, which incidentally, is said to be the same thing that killed 10,000 cattle in Kansas a few weeks ago. I could see a few cows here and there dying from heat exhaustion, but an entire herd of 10,000 all at once? I don't know of any ranchers who are buying that. Not one, yet this belief that climate change killed the cows is put forth as though proven fact. How is it climate change killed all 10,000 cows in one ranch in Kansas, but left all other cows untouched?
I was watching a video hosted by a woman who has over 100 chickens. During her interview...
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