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Bawb, I hate to do this but I must respectfully disagree with one point you made - based on experience which I know isn't the final word, but I can't pretend it didn't happen. Once when I was with a group of Christian young people, I encountered a charmed object. I recognized it because I had been involved with that sort of thing before becoming a Christian.
I couldn't figure out why these kids were suddenly becoming Roman Catholic despite coming from evangelical churches. This night, one of the prime Catholic apologists handed out rosaries from Medjegorje(sic) because she was leaving. When she handed me one, I noticed immediately that it was "charged" as occultists say sometimes, as if someone had attempted to put "psychic energy" into it. I never expected to encounter that at a Christian youth group. I immediately prayed for God to remove the "charge" and then asked Him to remove it from all of them. I realized then what had been behind the invincible Roman Catholic juggernaut taking over the group.
I found out later that God, for His own good reasons, had left the "charge" on at least one of the rosaries - when I told a friend who had been there about it, she said she'd been having nightmares since bringing it into her house. I convinced her to throw it out. We had a good talk about images of Christ, prayers to saints, and we touched on the passage in the Book of Samuel where Saul consults a medium. So it all worked out. Sorry about the digression!
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