KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

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Initiated or 'In Christ'? O ur spiritual sustenance comes from a daily diet of the word of God. The serpent told Eve to put that aside; he would feed her with just one gulp. So throughout the centuries his scribes have offered a magic carpet ride to spontaneous spirituality. The serpent's rap was: Eating the fruit or participating in a ceremony is a ritual/magic act which feeds the flesh while it pretends to feed the spirit. The split second spirituality and sense pleasing trappings of initiation rites— whether they be those of Sacramentalists with their infant christening caps and gowns or Satanists in their infidel-costumed cape and garb— are reminiscent of Eve. The rap of her lip-service religion will levitate the unwary into the kingdom of the king of the bottomless pit (Rev 9:11). The word initiation generates bizarre visions of occult ceremonies such as those described in Supernatural Powers and the Occult or Religious Movements in Contemporary America. One can only become a witch or Satanist by being 'initiated' into an existing group. Few but the fringes of society are likely to acquiesce to this door to the chambers of death. So the snake has changed his skin to seduce the other strata of society. Now yuppies are 'initiated' by the it was pleasant to the eyes.. .to make one wise. Genesis 3:6