The Enemy Appearing As If An Angel Of Light

[Tab'le De'Bah-Rye]

Pax domine bretheren and others...
Just wondering peoples opinion on this verse in the gospels, my understanding is that the enemy can appear as if an angel of light but if where awake and not asleep if we examine and pray in other words look a little closer one can see the cracks so to speak, but also jesus said anyone whom speaks in my name can eventually do no evil and one of the psalms says that the wicked can not stand his gaze,so in that if the person is wicked and actually working for the enemy can not stand the scrutiny of the lord for any extended period of time and will fall away. Not to confuse the wicked whom is working for the enemy as an ordinary sinner trying to reach heaven.

God bless
JC " the enemy can appear AS IF an angel of light " emphasis on AS IF.

[Eternal CB]

That passage refers to ways in which the evil one may tempt you into doing things which seem apparently good, but eventually they have negative consequences and henceforth bring darkness. For example, you are praying fervently and feel that 'god' tells you that you should take a day off school to devote time to him. However, you know that your parents will be angry at you for doing such a thing and this would consequently result in dissension within your family. This may lead to you and your family wrongly accusing God for causing conflict within your home, and hence a loss in faith and direct opposition to Him.

In her book "Interior Castle", Saint Teresa of Avila identifies this same problem and gives some examples:


[quote]As I told you before, he works like a noiseless file, and we must be on the look-out for him from the beginning. In order to explain this better I want to give you several illustrations. He inspires a sister with yearnings to do penance, so that she seems to have no peace save when she is torturing herself. This, in itself, is good; but, if the prioress has ordered that no penance is to be done without leave, and yet the sister thinks that she can venture to persist in so beneficial a practice, and secretly orders her life in such a way that in the end she ruins her health and is unable to do what her Rule demands, you see what this apparently good thing has led to. Another sister is inspired with zeal for the greatest possible perfection. This, again, is a very good thing; but the result of it might be that she would think any little fault on the part of the sisters a serious failure, and would always be looking out for such things and running to the prioress about them; sometimes she might even be so zealous about religious observances as to be unable to see her own faults; and this the others, observing only her zeal about their misdeeds and not understanding the excellence of her intentions, might well take none too kindly.[/quote]


When she refers to 'him' she refers to the devil; in other parts of the book when she refers to God she spells it 'Him'.

I hope you found this useful, God Bless

[Tab'le De'Bah-Rye]

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That passage refers to ways in which the evil one may tempt you into doing things which seem apparently good, but eventually they have negative consequences and henceforth bring darkness. For example, you are praying fervently and feel that 'god' tells you that you should take a day off school to devote time to him. However, you know that your parents will be angry at you for doing such a thing and this would consequently result in dissension within your family. This may lead to you and your family wrongly accusing God for causing conflict within your home, and hence a loss in faith and direct opposition to Him.

In her book "Interior Castle", Saint Teresa of Avila identifies this same problem and gives some examples:





When she refers to 'him' she refers to the devil; in other parts of the book when she refers to God she spells it 'Him'.

I hope you found this useful, God Bless
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Thanks woz helpful i understand all that that one can't be of the concience to do evil for a supposed greater good, even lying and hal truths so to speak.

God bless you and your family and friends and the nation your reside in.