Jinn Rubbish?

Spirit Problems? Call the Islamic ghost busters

Apparently, the Islamic world still believes in such things as ghosts and demons. For example, if you live in Saudi Arabia and suspect that your house is haunted, you can call the Jinn police and they'll come and rid your home of spirits, much like a spiritual exterminator.

What's a Jinn? That's an Arabic term for a spirit. According to Islam, Jinns aren't always bad spirits. Islam classifies some Jinns as good and helpful, just as some churches claim that Christians have guardian angels at their side.

The Bible informs us that true Christians are protected by God's angels. (Psalm 91) But nowhere does the Bible reveal that Christians have their own personal angels who've been assigned to them by God. That's an unbiblical heresy taught by the Roman Catholic Church.

Here's what the Bible says concerning God's protection of His people: 

If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. (Psalm 91:9-13)

 The reality that spirit beings such as angels, demons and ghosts exist is repugnant to many folks in the west who consider any belief in such beings to be primitive superstition.

Hugh Fitzgerald, who writes for the conservative weblog, frontpagemag.com, is one such skeptic who lampoons the Muslim world for its belief in spirits. Here's what he wrote recently:

The Saudi witchcraft-hunt offers us a glimpse of the Bizarro-World that we enter whenever we penetrate the world of Islam. In the West, we hardly bother to denounce those who claim to be witches and wizards, exorcists and fortunetellers, that is, all who lay claim to supernatural powers, because we know, as rational creatures, that they are frauds and fakes, they cannot possibly have these powers. And because we don’t believe any of that stuff, we don’t worry about them in this, our Western world, the dutiful child of the Enlightenment and rationalism. If we punish any fortunetellers or magicians at all, it’s only because they have charged for services we know are worthless and we want them to disgorge their ill-gotten gains. Witchcraft has not been taken seriously, i.e. as effective, since Salem, when outside it was 1692.

Fitzgerald shows his rank ignorance of the spiritual realm by equating the belief in the demonic with witchcraft. If Fitzgerald bothered to do the research, he'd discover that witchcraft--although vile and evil--is taken very seriously these days by a lot of folks, including many of his own on the left. Witchcraft, or Wicca as it's more popularly referred to, has grown exponentially in the western world, despite the so-called triumph of rationalism and science.

Fitzgerald might also want to explain how some children and adolescents acquire the ability to speak with adult voices, or speak in languages they've never learned. I'm sure that Fitzgerald believes that science has a plausible explanation for that.

And he can believe that all he wants. But science has no explanation for that. Or, for furniture and other objects that move themselves around rooms, in full view of people. That's what happened in the famous Roland Doe case in the late 1940s.

Who was Doe? Doe was an adolescent boy who tried to contact his deceased grandmother with a Ouija Board. Soon after his attempt, Doe began acting strangely and he started speaking Hebrew, a language he never learned. The furniture in Doe's house began to move by itself, and Doe eventually was committed to a hospital after he became extremely violent. In fact, he became so violent that he couldn't even be restrained by chains.

Compare Doe's story to the biblical account of a man that Jesus and His disciples encountered one day:

They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones. (Mark 5:1-5)

Doe became demon possessed via the Ouija Board. In fact, the horror film, The Exorcist, was based upon Doe's story. However, modern intellectuals such as Hugh Fitzgerald would try to explain away Doe's behavior to some psychological malady. After all, science has provided all the answers for that type of behavior, hasn't it?

No it hasn't. We're living in a post-Christian world where, for millions of people, science and rationalism have replaced faith in God and the reverence for His word in the Bible. Even many professing Christians no longer believe in Satan, demons, or Jinns, if you prefer the Arabic term.

But they still exist, and they operate best under the cover of secrecy and darkness. The less you know about them, the greater damage they can inflict upon you and the world.

For Hugh Fitzgerald, the damage has already been done. His god is science. And like all false gods, Fitzgerald's god won't be able to rescue him from eternal damnation after he leaves this world.

Spirit Guides and Fallen Angels

Do guardian angels protect us?

Sadly, ancient prophecies that predicted a great apostasy (falling away) within the Christian church in the last days are being fulfilled in the time we're living in. In what way? In the way of occultism that has increasingly found a comfortable home in the church behind the facade of biblical Christianity.

For example, a growing number of churches now teach that Christians have "spirit guides" that can be called upon to protect them and supply them with wisdom as they go through life. While that belief may seem bizarre to a lot of people, it really isn't. The Roman Catholic Church has historically taught that everyone has a guardian angel assigned to them by God.

Who or what are spirit guides? Are they truly guardian angels sent by God to guide and protect us on earth? Or, are they something else? And if everyone really has a guardian angel or spirit guide assigned to them, then why do some people die in mishaps and accidents? Evidently, their guardian angels failed to protect them.

What does the Bible reveal about angels interacting with human beings? According to Psalm 91:9-12: "If you say, 'The Lord is my refuge', and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone."

Indeed, the Bible reveals that God's angels protect His people here on earth. However, it never reveals that everyone has their own guardian angel. That's a fallacy taught by the Catholic Church.

And it's a fallacy that's similar to the spirit guides promoted by the New Age Movement. The New Age Movement teaches that the spirits of human beings who died a long time ago can be contacted to teach us and guide us on paths of righteousness and wisdom. These so-called spirits are also referred to as "ascended masters" or spiritual mentors.

But they aren't spirit guides, mentors or ascended masters. Rather, they're demons under the authority of Satan that are tasked with preventing the salvation of human beings by denying Jesus Christ's death on the cross for all sin and His resurrection from the dead. They're very clever at hiding their true identities. And they're very clever at promoting Satan's lies by mixing truth with falsehoods.

Certainly, they can't arbitrarily show up in your life and deceive you. They must be invited in. But in what ways? Through involvement in the occult, eastern mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs. Those are the three prime door-openers to demonic deception.

But aren't Christians forbidden from getting involved in such practices? Yes they are. However, some techniques that are being promoted in the church are occult methodologies disguised as Christian practices. One such example is the New Age-Hindu technique of creative visualization that involves contacting the spiritual realm through the mind via channeling or an altered state of consciousness.

That practice is known as spiritism that's condemned in the Bible: "I (the Lord) will set my face against anyone who turns to mediums and spiritists to prostitute themselves by following them, and I will cut them off from their people." (Leviticus 20:6) 

What happens when a person attempts to make contact with the spiritual realm? They come in contact with demons that will influence, oppress and even possess them. Back in 1988, John Ankerberg and John Weldon wrote this in regards to the growing phenomenon of spiritism within America at that time: "Over 40 percent of all American adults--approaching half the nation--claim to have been in contact with someone who has died. Of these, 78 percent claim they saw, 50 percent heard and 18 percent talked with the dead. From this it is clear the spirits most often claim they are human spirits who have survived physical death." (The Facts on Spirit Guides)

And they also claim that they're angels sent by God to "enlighten" people as to what heaven, God, Christ and angels are truly about. Naturally, they deny sin, judgment and hell as well as the necessity for repentance and being born again by faith into eternal life in Jesus Christ. The very fact that they malign the Bible and its teachings reveals the true identity of these spirit beings.

And these demonic spirits have spread their influence throughout segments of the Christian church for centuries. They seek to seduce Christians by promoting false doctrines such as New Thought-Positive Confession-Word of Faith that substitute faith in God for faith in techniques. And they seek to deceive Christians by appearing as Christ, Mary, saints, angels etc.

What's the antidote for this type of deception? The Bible tells us this: "Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land." (Deuteronomy 6:13-15)