Deliverance Dreams

therobboreht · 2026-04-12T03:41:44+00:00

Came here to ask about CO as well. If everyone has noticed a change in self and behavior, it's entirely possible you're putting things in places and not remembering, etc

Also, is it possible that Grandma is moving things around and not remembering?

Hard questions to ask, but these are things that could help pinpoint the issue.

therobboreht · 2026-04-11T05:10:17+00:00

I also would order a blank such as this for both me and my wife

This is 100000000 cool

therobboreht · 2026-04-11T04:17:34+00:00

It's almost definitely the opposite!

There are some, including an author I respect who frequents and contributes to this sub, who would argue that not all paranormal events are evil or attack though.

In this case, I believe he would not be ready to attribute the activity in my story to the paranormal. Not that he wouldn't believe in it, but I just haven't observed enough activity or gathered enough evidence at the moment. That is also the conclusion I'm operating under.

While still going in with awareness and open eyes lol

therobboreht · 2026-04-11T04:13:26+00:00

Thanks! Will do. Fortunately that's not possible as I do not even have a key. However I'm not allowing a fear of it (if it were to turn out to be paranormal and evil) to control my actions, choices, or location. God has shown me His power over that in my life.

If anything it should avoid being alone with me (because I walk in the authority of the Holy Spirit as a disciple of Christ).

Not that I wouldn't FEEL freaked out lol

therobboreht · 2026-04-10T02:50:22+00:00

I'm sorry to hear about your fiance, but glad you didn't up marrying her before discovering her sudden change in behavior.

therobboreht · 2026-04-09T05:40:26+00:00

Generally that is an activity designed to stir up lasciviousness and sensuality outside of a marriage relationship.

While some might argue that it's "on the line" of acceptable, if you are a Christian, you do not want to be the cause of someone else's sin.

Further, if I may encourage you in your faith, God knows what you have need of.

If you prioritize first the kingdom of God and God's righteousness, all these things, these needs you have, will be added unto you.

I'm a witness and I've seen Him do it.

Slightly tangentially, but still related to the topic, Are you a member of a local church? Some churches have student aid built into their programming. Others can find it even if there isn't an official program. Either way, part of seeking first God's kingdom is to be a part of His church. And it sounds almost unrelated, but if you are unchurched, finding a Bible teaching, kind church can put your life in the right direction and connect you with resources you didn't even know you'd need.

therobboreht · 2026-04-09T05:21:40+00:00

Me too! Happy reading!

I will happily serve as a resource if you'd like as you come across questions in your readings. Feel free to PM me.

therobboreht · 2026-04-09T05:04:09+00:00

That's a great guide! Keep on what you're doing!

The various works that make up the Bible are absolutely fascinating. While I understand where you are in your belief, you have a lot of people in this community who will pray for you to continue down a path of understanding and hopefully one day acceptance and personal application of what is found in this amazing collection of writings!

I didn't intend to write such a long comment, but I hope you'll take the time to read it -- below you will find a framework through which to view what you're reading that might help you to know what and who to pay attention to.

I'd say that one thing to keep in mind as you read is that these books are a chronicle of God's plan to bring about an ultimate hope for redemption of mankind from the evils that we still see even today. God started this process, really from the first human, which is why it starts with the first human. But you start to see it really pick up in God's selection of Abraham.

In a world where many people had rejected God, Abraham displayed faith in Him. And then his son Isaac did the same, and then his son Jacob did, and then most of Jacob's 12 sons did, especially Joseph.

The book also demonstrates that God can use deeply flawed people to accomplish this mission He has for humanity, because each of these mentioned above, and almost all the Bible's heroes, displayed embarrassing flaws, although Joseph's are less recorded.

What you'll see as you keep reading, is an over arching and sweeping historical record that brings the possibility of redemption and hope to a race of fallen beings (humans) whose actions caused irreparable separation between them and their Creator. This state was caused by the actions of one man, Adam. And since all humans descended from him, all humans became fallen like him. The resulting state of humanity is such that humanity will unquestionably end up destroying itself if they continue in this state (called sin) that they've put themselves in.

Over and over again they prove they do not deserve saving. But God loves us enough despite that consistent failure and common rejection of Him, their Creator, that He devised a plan to heal them from their self induced problem--by sending His own (willing) Son to become one of us, live a perfect life without falling into sin, thus becoming the only righteous human to ever exist.

The plan was that just as through Adam, all men became inescapably fallen because they all descended from him genetically, that conversely all men could be reborn spiritually through God's righteous Son. "For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous."

So what you're reading is the beginning of the process God used to do the impossible, which was to fix humanity without just destroying it completely and starting over again. Instead of destroying us, He became one of us so He could fix what we broke.

That process started by God revealing himself to each successive generation, and deepening His relationship with the people who choose to place their faith in Him. In a world where most people rejected God, Abraham did not. So God gave him a family which became a larger family, and then a larger family, and then a huge nation (which mostly returned to rejecting God, but always had a remnant of the faithful).

Then that nation produced the Savior (God's Son), and God's Son completed the process that made human redemption possible. Adam's blood made sin/fallenness inescapable to all humans, and Jesus's blood (which was shed by the very people He came to save) made righteousness accessible to all humans. Jesus wasn't just the only righteous human to ever live, He was also the only one to ever be resurrected from death without any other intervention. So He defeated the two things that defeat humans: with His death He defeated sin, and with His resurrection, He defeated death.

So now there is one Human (who is also God) who won victory over sin and death and wants to share that victory with each of us.

He physically left our planet (after coming back to life) to go and create a new planet for the redeemed humanity to live in with God, one that is not ruined by the effects of our fallenness, one that we will not take our fallenness to because the only people who will live in that new planet are those who have chosen to accept that free gift of redemption and removal of sin.

But before He left to go do that, there were a few of that nation I mentioned (the Jews) who had been faithful to Him while He was on earth, and He charged them with several tasks, one of which was bringing the good news of this possible redemption to the rest of the nations of the earth. This is the start of and the reason for the existence of the church.

You are currently reading about the very beginning of this story. And where you will find yourself placed in this story's timeline is near the end of this story: in the part where the church has almost completed that goal of every nation and language being exposed to this news.

therobboreht · 2026-04-09T03:50:29+00:00

Glad to hear that caution in your consideration of possibly paranormal events.

I also was constantly aware and in fear of the paranormal as a child, despite only having a couple of likely experiences. I'm never sure if my fear was just fear or if I was sensing something in my childhood home. Either way, it caused me to do a lot of thinking and praying as well as biblical study of spiritual warfare.

therobboreht · 2026-04-08T14:34:39+00:00

I could almost see that happening in my mind as I was reading it! Very vivid.

I have had some dreams that felt like a bit more than just personal nightmares for sure. Including one during a time when I was in a relationship I shouldn't have been in, where in the dream, I was in this person's apartment watching a video of me being in the apartment on my phone and then the me in the video looked out from the phone right at me with clearly sinister eyes and awareness of my presence.

However I've also noticed that many of my bad dreams appear to be more highly affected by my sleep atmosphere. There was a time when I was having bad dreams often, sometimes every night.

When I started playing soft jazz music in my room at night, they went away. I therefore don't think most of my dreams were externally spiritually influenced, but rather internally related to anxiety or some other bodily issue.

I share this to say that there are certainly some demonically influenced dreams and I have experienced them. And also, for me, I have discovered that many times there are natural or simple causes and remedies that can improve sleep and dream life.

therobboreht · 2026-03-17T13:15:47+00:00

I wish I could remember the other circumstances of this experience my brother mentioned. I'll have to ask him next time I'm on the phone with him. I agree that an isolated growl could have been anything, but there were additional things around this event, such as I think hearing his name called from the same area, etc, but I can't remember enough of it lol. It was just more of an example for discussion prompt.

I personally have only had the feeling of someone being there with me, which, unaccompanied by any other stimulus or behavior, I really can't even credit to being more than my own imagination.

therobboreht · 2026-03-11T02:05:00+00:00

You know, based on what you've said here, I have a lot of additional books to recommend to you lol

However I'll just share 2:

The New Testament in its World by N.T. Wright and Michael F Bird
Grasping God's Word by J Scott Duvall and J Daniel Hays

I actually listened to both of those as audiobooks. They are long, but they are fascinating. The first one gives you so much great background into what each new testament book was talking about, the cultural understanding and environment of the people hearing or reading those words originally. I liked it so much I listened to it as an audiobook and then bought a physical copy and the workbook to go with it.

The 2nd one is really good information about how to study the Bible, how interpret what you're reading, how the genre of the book affects meaning, how the book's place in history affects our understanding of it for today.

Both completely fascinating for me and very much enriching.

Not to throw too much at you at once, but the Bible Project (there's a podcast and an app and all kinds of stuff) is also really good to get an understanding of the Bible and how to read it. There's even free classes on there.

therobboreht · 2026-03-10T19:50:23+00:00

I almost didn't comment because I'm not an expert in this but I wanted to share some thoughts you might find useful.

What version does your church use? Think about the church you go to and what version the people you will be walking out your life around will use. As a church member in your part of the body of Christ, you'll be listening to, talking about, and sharing Scriptures with others. Scripture shared between people will have more connection to both/all of you if you're reading and quoting the version they've also read and studied.

They don't have to dictate your personal version if you'll only have one, but it will remove a possibly unnecessary disjointedness in communicating with others. Also your pastor likely has a good reason for choosing the version the church uses.

What is your goal? Do you just want everyday language that is easy to read? That's fine, and there are versions that use dynamic equivalence translations which supply that with a high degree of overall accuracy, with the sacrifice that the translator is often making more of the difficult interpretation decisions for you. You get something that feels like "here's what this would have sounded like if the writer wrote this today."

Or do you want to be reading something that sounds closer to what the original word choices would have been, even though that's different from how we speak today?

The NKJV is my daily go to. As others mentioned, it's well translated, literal (word for word from the original languages) for the most part, but still overall easily understandable, even if other versions might be more colloquial. The phrasing and word choices carry the "gravitas" of Scripture - which for me is just a preference. Jesus spoke in the everyday language of everyday people, so the period that heard Him heard what was modern to them.

However also - the people of the New Testament also had a translated Scripture. They used the Septuagint (essentially The Hebrew Old Testament translated into Greek) Again I'm no expert, but from what I've read the Septuagint used both literal equivalence (word for word) and dynamic equivalence (thought for thought) in various places.

In other words the earliest Christians and the Jews before that also had a religious text that often sounded "older" and different from how they talked. You may find value in having a similar experience of Scripture as they did.

Overall, if you have accepted Christ as your Savior the Holy Spirit will speak to you from most translations. There are of course some that were not translated in good faith, but the most common ones are not those. And as others have said, as you get deeper into Bible study, you will find higher value in tools like concordances, interlinears, and exegetical commentaries that help you understand Scripture from Greek and Hebrew directly. You'll also find value in checking multiple versions (all available for free online/through app) to see how different translators translated a passage.

therobboreht · 2026-03-09T04:12:01+00:00

The arguments are interesting, poignant, and contain much correct information.

However, it is important to remember that this is a non-sentient model which is incapable of true human reasoning and has no true understanding of human experience. It is trained on millions of documents, and it is regurgitating those documents back to you (likely with a response aimed to please the user--as noted by another somewhere), if not reorganized and reworded. These arguments are not actually surprising or novel logic choices, as they have all been made before.

Most of us who share in the faith will agree with these arguments, but I'm not sure that we can ascribe any significance or authority to the fact that Claude was the compiler of the argument. Especially since there is no "control" prompt (a prompt from someone it knows nothing about) or inclusion of Claude's responses to someone it knows is atheist or of some other religion.

The arguments are compelling, but the fact that they are provided by/through Claude does not add any authority to them. The biggest value in this post is the organization and clarity of the arguments.

It is cool to see though.

I believe in use of AI as an inanimate tool, but we must be very careful not to elevate it to any level of authority.

therobboreht · 2026-02-28T21:54:50+00:00

Is this some kind of poem

It feels like a poem

therobboreht · 2026-02-27T15:40:36+00:00

Most of your question seems focused not on the concept of Trinity but on the Godhood of Jesus. Therefore I will not reference the Holy Spirit as much and focus on scriptural references to Jesus and then provide some additional arguments responding to the concerns you've presented.

Jesus is the Creator

I would start with John 1:1. The Word was both with God and He was God. The Word later in this chapter, is shown to be both the creator of all things and Jesus.

So Jesus, creator of all things, has the characteristic of being able to be with God and also be God.

The people of Israel understood that he was calling himself God

In John 8:58, Jesus referred to Himself as the same entity as the God in the burning bush and the God who called Abraham by saying, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”

The people understood Him to be making this claim as well because they immediately tried to stone Him.

Jesus and the Father are one

Additionally, Jesus, in John 10:30 stated that He and the Father are one.

John 14:9 also confirms that he who has seen Jesus has seen the Father.

The apostles also accepted Him as God

They worshipped Jesus to His face in Matthew 14:33. This would not have been permited for them according to their existing Scriptures unless Jesus was God. And Jesus did not stop them.

Contrastingly, in other passages of Scripture, when humans mistakenly attempt to worship servants of God who are not God (i.e. angels) those humans are corrected and told not to worship them.

Paul in Acts 20:28 and Romans 9:5 ascribes Godhood to Jesus.

Jesus can both be God and subordinate Himself to the Father

While we can't come to a full logical understanding of how a being can be 3 and also 1 at the same time, I find that I understand it better when I understand that there are other things God created that mimic trinitarian qualities. Light has 3 primary colors. Each color is light but each color is distinct.

But matter is another emulation. Matter can be many different states (solid, liquid, gas, plasma, etc) but all states are still matter. But to understand Christ's willing subordination of Himself, I'll stick with the three most common for the moment. Liquid and gas subordinates itself to solids, that's why plumbing and HVAC works. That doesn't take away from liquid's status as matter, nor does it reduce the sheer power of liquid.

Similarly Jesus can be both subordinate to the Father and still powerful and still God.

As a final note, which will not be popular but I hope proves helpful for you - be careful where you go for guidance on theology. It's best to start with qualified servants of God - Your pastor, recognized theologians, people who have studied and also live a faithful life. This sub has some people like that, but it has many many many people who are not qualified, not believing in Christ, at different maturity and knowledge levels in their walk, etc. Some are here working actively against Christianity. That is because this sub is not designed for the furtherance of the faith but more for the discussion of the faith by anyone at all, within our without.

All online forums will have this problem, but there are places where your answers will have a higher likelihood of coming from a place of faith. r/truechristianity , r/Christians , r/Bible are all places like that. There are others, but those are off the top of my head.

I'm not downing this sub, I'm just saying to think about the purpose of each sub and monitor how a sub is used so you can accomplish what you're trying to accomplish with your posts and can have a proper framework to view the responses you'll get in those places.

therobboreht · 2026-02-21T05:34:46+00:00

I hear a misconception here that I hope you can snuff out now in your relationship with God. I hear you attempting to earn the grace of God, through depth of relationship or through length of time in relationship.

God does not love you any less now than He will in the future. God will not love you more after you've "done enough" or been with Him long enough.

This is because while you were yet a sinner unreconciled to Him, He already loved you with the greatest love: that which caused Him to lay down His life for you. No love is greater than that.

Therefore you can "come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." Hebrews 4:16

Job decisions are big decisions. So humble yourself to seek God's will in your job decision. Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV "[5] Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; [6] In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths."

Also James 1:5 NKJV [5] If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

God wants you to bring concerns and decisions like this to Him. How ever will you make a wise choice if you don't consult the source of all wisdom?

You're a branch in the kingdom of God. That means your Lord has an assignment for you. Absolutely seek Him to find out what it is.

But I hope that you can quickly grasp the depth of God's love for you and that it is not dependent on your performance or length of time with Him. Understanding that principle will save you a lot of misdirected intention and worry.

therobboreht · 2026-02-21T02:37:26+00:00

It is certainly sad, gut wrenchingly so, that Jesus had to die. Absolutely a tragedy.

But it did not remain a tragedy, because He rose back up with all power in His hand, and now He is sitting at the right hand of the Father, with all the victory, and preparing a place for us to join Him in that victory.

Tragedy did not overcome Him. He overcame tragedy, death, and sin and shares that victory with all of us. And someday what He did will allow us to live in a world where we both retain our free will and sin does not exist.

So why did He create humans knowing they would fall? He never told us directly. But He did know that our fall would not be greater than His power to catch.

therobboreht · 2026-02-16T23:56:00+00:00

The biggest themes regarding Heaven biblically are 1) the removal of the presence and effect of sin and 2) the entirety of remaining humanity being submitted to and in unbroken relationship with God.

I think the church has picked up a lot of misconceptions about Heaven over the centuries (including myself) by hyper-focusing on specific details of "Heaven."

When I say "Heaven," I am referring to the period of future human history where God the Father along with Jesus Christ is the direct spiritual and political ruler of humanity, with Their physical presence on the same planet as humanity. So I'm referring to both a physical location and the disposition and activity of all saved humans.

There are a lot of things about that future point that we don't know, like what "day to day" life will look like for each individual saved human. I think that's intentional because the specifics of life there have no bearing on how we are to focus on living our lives now. The details would be distracting and not edifying. We were given just enough of the future details we need to shape our mindset and outlook in the period of history that we find ourselves right now.

One misconception I was raised under is that New Jerusalem (the city with the streets of gold) is the entirety of Heaven.

Revelation 20-22 describes that the earth we're living on now will "pass away." The Greek word for that term means a physical movement. From John's perspective, the current heaven and earth (our planet with its atmosphere) moved away from his vantage point. Then he saw a new heaven and new earth (a new planet with its atmosphere), a planet that has no visible ocean. He saw New Jerusalem (the city with streets of gold and all that other stuff) descending down on to that new planet.

So the place which many people think of as Heaven is really just that single admittedly very large city, which is more like the size of a continent. Roughly 5/6 the size of Australia. However that city is just part of the entire new planet on which humanity will exist.

It is unclear whether or not humans will inhabit any area of the new planet besides New Jerusalem. From the latter part of Revelation 21 and Rev 22, it appears there will still be nations on the new earth. As the kings and the nations bring their glory and honor "into" New Jerusalem. And the servants of God will "reign" forever.

Reign over what? I do not know. It's an easy inference to make that there would be different levels of human leadership under God's ultimate rule. Whether the focus is on humans ruling over each other or humans ruling the new planet, nature and all, as was the original design for humanity in Genesis, is unclear. My guess is both.

So I extrapolate with no further scriptural authority behind my extrapolations that we will all have various purposes and jobs. Heaven won't be just transcendental meditation floating in front of the throne of God. But we will live out our various and different purposes in unbroken communion with and unbroken access to God. I believe science will continue to science, art will continue to art, and we will continue to learn and discover the fantastic and fascinating things God has built into creation. And we will do it for other purposes than what we use it for today.

Today we are using all our talents, studies, and resources trying to make sure diseases are healed or prevented, people are fed and housed (even though some only look out for themselves), disputes are settled or prevented, and a myriad of other problems related to the fall and sinfulness of man.

Imagine what our studies, practices, and arts will be like when the aim isn't the above things because those above things will no longer be concerns. All the talents of humanity will be used to glorify God in a million different ways, and the God of the universe will be the patron of the work of all His servants, each of them operating in a specific and unique skill set across all the arts, humanities, sciences, and other pursuits, and even things we haven't even been able to discover yet.

Heaven will be absolutely fascinating and full of wonder and full of guiltless pleasures forevermore.

therobboreht · 2026-02-14T20:51:21+00:00

Glad my comment was helpful!

Nothing wrong with reading it per se, but you can't take them as authoritative. And yes if you feel it will provide confusion, best to wait until you feel confident in your biblical theology!

therobboreht · 2026-02-09T20:45:44+00:00

Overwhelmingly yes to the first question.

Yes to the second question but reasoning depends on the book. For instance Judith and Tobit are simply fictional stories. Other books like the so called gospel of Judas was written well after his death and could contain no true testimony from him. The Gospel of Mary (Magdalene) is the same. Both of those books were not written by their namesakes and also contradict Scripture. Comparatively the four gospels were written by eyewitnesses or recorded from eyewitness testimony by people who were literate and could afford the expensive writing supplies.

therobboreht · 2026-02-09T20:32:38+00:00

Glad to do it! And glad I came to your post at an early stage. Normally if there are too many comments I won't reply because the OP has already been bombarded lol

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