The Devil and Karen Kingston

The Devil and Karen Kingston
Author: Robert W. Pelton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2013-01-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781481986519

"There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils!" warned the widely respected C. L Lewis. "One is to disbelieve in their existence! “The other is to believe and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them!" Father Juan Cortes was a psychology professor at Georgetown University! This was where The Exorcist was filmed! He said that all cases of possession he's studied can readily be explained away in modern scientific terms! Today's science can also explain, according to Cortes, the old Biblical accounts of "casting out devils!" Reverend Donald Basham, an ordained Disciples of Christ minister and others vigorously disagree! Basham claims a full one-fourth of Jesus Christ's ministry was solely devoted to casting devils out of possessed people! This man is a long-time counselor. He's able, "by taking authority over a demon," to achieve quickly what months of counseling failed to accomplish! Taking this authority over a demonic spirit is quite simple! The exorcist must only do it "in the name of Jesus!" Or "on the blood of Jesus!" In Acts 16:16, the Apostle Paul was on his way to prayer when he met a psychic, "a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination!” Paul couldn't seem to rid himself of this pesky girl! She continued following him for days! In Acts 16:18, Paul finally lost patience with the diviner! He became quite upset over her persistent antics! Paul promptly turned on the girl! He unhesitatingly cast out the evil spirit of divination, or fortune-telling! How did Paul execute this deed? He simply said: "I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And the spirit was expelled! Almost instantaneously! Most theologians agree that Jesus Christ believed in demons! In Mark 1:21, Jesus drove evil spirits out of a man in the synagogue of Capernaum! Billy Graham supports the view that Jesus acted as God's exorcist! He offers Matthew 12:28 as evidence! Philip performed numerous miracles while he was in Samaria. This man of God is known to have exorcised quite a few evil spirits. These "unclean spirits" came forth from the possessed people "crying with a loud voice." The evil entities are believed to have been both baffled and enraged at being deprived of their dwelling place. "Many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed" by Philip's elementary act of forcing the demonic spirits to leave their human vessel! "It is possible to cast demons out of physical bodies!" declared the late Kathryn Kuhlman, noted television evangelist and healer."Young people have a right to be frightened of the possibility of possession! "Demons are a highly organized system of evil spirits hostile to God and men," charged Evangelist Leighton Ford, a long-time member of the Billy Graham team. “Demons are messengers of Satan! “Wholly given over to evil! A youthful Holiness minister, a dubious Catholic priest, and a skeptical Southern Baptist evangelist formed an unlikely trio of exorcists! They'd come together in an effort to try to help young, pitiful Karen Kingston! They would temporally lay aside their theological differences! They would join hands in mortal combat against the raging forces of Satan! Ten people experienced a horrifying three days in contact with a dangerous group of evil entities! Ten people came away from the chilling experience with a strengthened faith in God! Ten people witnessed a miracle!

Back to Heaven

Back to Heaven
Author: Carter Shepard
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2001-07
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0595186742

Each of us has struggled in the search for our own spiritual path. In this search many have become frustrated with traditional religion because this customary source of wisdom has been unable to provide us with defititive knowledge about our spiritual path or our purpose here. This book give you the knowledge.

Mephistopheles

Mephistopheles
Author: Jeffrey Burton Russell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801497186

Mephistopheles is the fourth and final volume of Jeffrey Burton Russell's critically acclaimed history of the concept of the Devil, continuing in this volume the story from the Reformation to the present.

Lure of the Sinister

Lure of the Sinister
Author: Gareth Medway
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 475
Release: 2001-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 081475645X

A frequent writer on comparative religion and the history of occultism, Medway begins by exploring what a Satanist is and why people worship Satan, then looks at such topics as the history of Satan and the Pact, Satanic crime, hell on earth, sex slaves of Lucifer, and the relationship between paranoia and conspiracy. He explains that as a Pagan he does not believe in Satan, but neither does he believe in Christianity but knows Christians are real. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Beyond Supernature

Beyond Supernature
Author: Lyall Watson
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2012-06-27
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0307816524

A thought-provoking look at the world of the supernatural that shows how many paranormal events can be explained by what we already know—or don’t know—about the natural world. Scientist and rationalist Lyall Watson, the author of the million-copy bestseller Supernature, reveals the inconsistencies, blank spots, and “soft edges” in current scientific theory that make the existence of the supernatural not only an intriguing possibility—but a necessary and perfectly logical part of our explanation of the workings of the universe. Examining breakthroughs in science from biology to biofeedback, from quantum physics to paraphysics, the author proposes a revolutionary synthesis of nature and supernature. He offers surprising insights into such “unexplainable” phenomena as telepathy, reincarnation, synchronicity, poltergeists, evolutionary intelligence, and other mind-bending questions challenging science today. Beyond Supernature is a groundbreaking new chapter in the never-ending search for reality. It is a book for anyone who can still look at the world with both common sense and a sense of wonder.

God Bless America

God Bless America
Author: Karen Stollznow
Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1939578086

God Bless America lifts the veil on strange and unusual religious beliefs and practices in the modern-day United States. Do Satanists really sacrifice babies? Do exorcisms involve swearing and spinning heads? Are the Amish allowed to drive cars and use computers? Taking a close look at snake handling, new age spirituality, Santeria spells, and satanic rituals, this book offers more than mere armchair research, taking you to an exorcism and a polygamist compound—and allowing you to sit among the beards and bonnets in a Mennonite church and to hear L. Ron Hubbard's stories told as sermons during a Scientology service. From the Amish to Voodoo, the beliefs and practices explored in this book may be unorthodox—and often dangerous—but they are always fascinating. While some of them are dying out, and others are gaining popularity with a modern audience, all offer insight into the future of religion in the United States—and remind that fact is often stranger than fiction.

Illuminating the Narrow Gate

Illuminating the Narrow Gate
Author: Karl R. Luther
Publisher: Peerseen Truth Publishing
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2022-01-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1735634751

Do you desire the truth about God, our foremost religions, the purpose of life and the future of our planet? If so, Illuminating the Narrow Gate will guide and empower you to fulfill your destiny of transcending the darkness and embracing an enlightened spirituality. Blessed with astonishing insights and revelations, this revolutionary book heralds a global awakening and the inevitable doom of institutional religion. Volume II contains 15 appendixes that substantiate and enhance the revelations of Volume I. Appendixes A (“Reincarnation”) and B (“Spirit Possession”) present scientific and clinical evidence that demonstrates the reality of those phenomena. The next three appendixes are primarily dedicated to dating the Book of Daniel. Leveraging the breakthrough of Illuminating the Narrow Gate’s paradigm shift, Appendix D (“Redirecting the Debate About Daniel”) decimates the prevailing scholarly conclusion that Daniel’s prophecies were a hoax written in the 2nd century BCE. Instead, this book within a book proves they were penned as advertised in the 6th century BCE while debunking the fundamentalist view that the biblical book is inerrant. The next six appendixes primarily present ancient history that demonstrates the fulfillment of prophetic passages from Daniel. Four of them—Appendix F (“The Beast With Ten Horns”), Appendix G (“Constantine the Great”), Appendix J (“The King of the End Times”) and Appendix K (“Understanding the 69 ‘Sevens’”)—deliver the spine-tingling details of how the future was foretold with stunning accuracy and precision for five centuries after the date when all scholars agree Daniel was on the historical record (160s BCE). Appendix L (“The Catholic Church in the 20th Century”) shows that although the Church no longer champions crusades, sequesters Jews in ghettos, or tortures and kills those who believe differently, its underlying darkness has continued unabated. The majority of this other book within a book details how the Vatican helped Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler gain dictatorial power and then made strategic alliances with them, ignored their pre-war crimes and assaults upon the Jews, sanctioned their predatory aggression upon other nations, and turned a blind eye to the Holocaust. After illuminating the essence of the papal choices before and during World War II, the appendix exposes the criminal nature of the Vatican’s subsequent financial affairs. It shows how the sudden death of Pope John Paul I in 1978 was most likely a blackmail-enabled murder by the Vatican Bank’s underworld partners. After two short appendixes explain passages from Revelation, the book concludes with Appendix O (“The Impact on Islam”). It shows how the book’s insights are also inscribing the writing on the wall for Islam. * You don’t need to purchase Volume II if you only want the book’s core insights and revelations. A PDF document of the end matter published in Volume II (Endnotes, Bibliography, Index, et al.) can be downloaded for free from the book’s website to make Volume I a self-standing book.

The Poisonwood Bible

The Poisonwood Bible
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061804819

New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.

Abigale Hall

Abigale Hall
Author: Lauren A. Forry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1510717277

Amid the terror of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Eliza and her troubled little sister Rebecca have had their share of tragedy, having lost their mother to the Blitz and their father to suicide. Forced to leave London to work for the mysterious Mr. Brownwell at Abigale Hall, they soon learn that the worst is yet to come. The vicious housekeeper, Mrs. Pollard, seems hell-bent on keeping the ghostly secrets of the house away from the sisters and forbids them from entering the surrounding town—and from the rumors that circulate about Abigale Hall. When Eliza uncovers some blood-splattered books, ominous photographs, and portraits of a mysterious woman, she begins to unravel the mysteries of the house, but with Rebecca falling under Mrs. Pollard’s spell, she must act quickly to save her sister, and herself, from certain doom. Perfect for readers who hunger for the strange, Abigale Hall is an atmospheric debut novel where the threat of death looms just beyond the edge of every page. Lauren A. Forry has created a historical ghost story where the setting is as alive as the characters who inhabit it and a resonant family drama of trust, loyalty, and salvation.