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How Could One Tell the Difference Between God and a Demon?


Both have supernatural powers, neither supersedes free will but instead "influences", both can cause visions, and both have ordered people to kill. How would you know it was god telling you to kill these demons, how would you know they were demons, how could you trust your visions? If you can't, and you just gotta have faith, is that really enough when lives are on the line? Might be acceptable if you're going to a job interview or proposing (to someone of the opposite sex of course, not the allegedly immoral alternative!), but when you're given a list of demons who resemble people in every conceivable way and you've only your visions to guide you, which could easily be the product of a malevolent entity trying to manipulate you into killing people... do you still swing the axe? If your answer is yes, please proceed to the nearest psychological evaluation clinic as soon as possible, and do not procreate until you're released.







"I have no idea what "hammer time" is. Or how it differs from regular time."

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The visions were confirmed to be true...the Powers Booth character even admitted to murdering his mother and asked how he could've known.

If he was as evil as the visions indicated he was, then the visions were clearly true.

+++by His wounds we are healed. - Isaiah 53:5+++


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I wasn't referring to this movie specifically, or the Powers Boothe character, as I'm sure you recall the protagonists murder multiple people before encountering him and none of them admit their guilt. Sure, we learn at the end that they happened to be correct, but they could've just as easily been wrong with respect to the points I mentioned in my OP.





"I have no idea what "hammer time" is. Or how it differs from regular time."

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There's no way to distinguish between who is a demon and who isn't. Since gods and demons are imaginary, then it's up to your own imagination make the judgement. Many make the worst judgements;

1) De?asia Watkins, killed, stabbed in the face several times, and decapitated her 3mo old daughter. The mother was hearing demons!
2) Angela Camacho, decapitated her three children, claiming they were "possessed by evil spirits"
3) Gary Sherrill killed his 13 yr old son with an axe, as the boy was a "demon"
4) Talae Thomas killed his son, another "devil"!
5) Zakieya Avery killed her two children because they were possessed by the devil!
6) Nadejda Voronova, Decapitated her 7yr old daughter. She said "Demons told me to do it"
7) Nelly Vasquez-Salazar killed her 6 year old daughter because "she was possessed"!
8) Jessica Carson and her fiancé, killed their infant while trying to extract the "devil"! The baby had bites all over it's back, then killed with a hammer.
9) Elzbieta M. Plackowska killed her son, stabbing him 100 times telling him to pray, as he's now going to heaven. She also killed a young girl she was babysitting at the time. Stabbing her 50 times. Both children had their throats cut.
10) Otty Sanchez dismembered her three week old son, claiming the devil instructed her.
11) Eva Maudlin claimed the devil forced her husband to microwave their daughter. That he's not a monster, but a good man!
12) Deanna Laney killed all 3 of her children by bashing their heads in with rocks. She claims that God instructed her to kill them.
13) LaShuan Harris drowned her 3 son's in the San Francisco Bay because God told her to sacrifice them.
14) Andrea Yates killed all 5 of her children, because she wanted them to be with Jesus. She didn't want the devil beating jesus to the children's souls.

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Just because a vision is true doesn't mean it came from an Angel

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When I receive a vision from a super natural being, I look for the horns and tail to tell its a demon. Dead give away, even when they try to hide the horns with a hat. Also a demon normally carries a pitchfork, while an angel has a harp. Angels have wings and a halo. I have yet to see an angel carry a pitchfork for example, so this is pretty 100% true. Angels also wear clothes like they are singing in a church choir. One time and only one time I saw an angel wearing guess jeans, but she said she was a newer angel and was getting written up for being out of uniform, Demons tend to be big and red, and maybe with a wart or boil. I hope this guide helps to tell the difference between an angel and a demon.

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There's no way to tell. Religious folk talk about a fervor to do god's will and some will take it to the extreme like the main character in this movie. At the same time, religious folk constantly talk about how satan is always trying to lead humans astray by imitating god. So which is it? What's worse, the religious zealot who kills in the name of the lord or his victims who kill for some other reason? Doling out punishment is supposed to be god's responsibility as far as I understand it, because he wants to give humans a lifetime of chances to find their way back to him. But that doesn't matter when a zealot gets it in his/her head that they have been imbued with the holy killing spirit. It's all very convoluted. 



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Hmm, these are all very good observations, critical actually. I think I need to take another gander at this one!

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