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Title: The Bondage Breaker: Overcoming Negative Thoughts, Irrational Feelings, Habitual Sins
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| The Bondage Breaker: Overcoming Negative Thoughts, Irrational Feelings, Habitual Sins by Harvest House Pub Bondage Breaking | | I can not believe the comments here. I have seen several people go through the steps to freedom, claim victory through the cross over their past sins and become completely different Christians empowered in Christ. Do each of you really believe a Christian is suddenly freed from all their past every time at the moment of salvation? That is not always what happens. There are a LOT of people who do not know how to take victory over those things. They do not know how to lay those things at the cross as much as they want to. YES, demons can influence Christians. Jesus himself spoke directly to Satan, with Satan trying to put things in His mind and Jesus is God. How much more does Satan try such with us? If you are a Christian, you are in a spiritual battle. Even if you don't know it, you are. I am very excited to get into his books and go through the steps of freedom and see what God will clean out of my life to make me a more effective Christian. I have experienced demons leaving a person after renouncing these things. There are demons out there whether you want to believe it or not. They do influence you whether you want to believe it or not. If you are not in the fight and you know Christ, you are in it you are just getting pummeled because you don't know it. I am not a Charismatic person. I was raised in a Southern Baptist Church. I am attending a Missionary Church. Neither denomination has in the past been big on recognizing demonic activity or any real spiritual warfare. I have seen what renouncing these demons can do in my own life and I seen what it can do in other's lives. It is NOT "I" focused at all. You need to recognize that, in Christ, when we sin it is not us but our flesh within us. Does that mean we should sin NO. I think you can see that is clearly scriptural. | | The Bondage Breaker: Overcoming Negative Thoughts, Irrational Feelings, Habitual Sins by Harvest House Pub A Must Read for All Christians! | | This book should come with every Bible you purchase. I have read the printed version several times and purchased the audio version so I could process it more deeply. I listen to it in the car every week! | | The Bondage Breaker: Overcoming Negative Thoughts, Irrational Feelings, Habitual Sins by Harvest House Pub Absolutly the truth! with all Bible references | | Neil T. Anderson is truly a man filled with the Spirit of God as he reveals in his personality and experiances how the Word of God has challenged and changed him. The words are easy to understand and will change your life forever as the Word of God always does. | | The Bondage Breaker: Overcoming Negative Thoughts, Irrational Feelings, Habitual Sins by Harvest House Pub Even Worse than Victory Over the Darkness | Neil Anderson is the author of several books related to spiritual warfare, Victory Over the Darkness and Bondage Breaker being the foundational works. Te continuing presence of his works on Christian Bookstore shelves is any indicator, Anderson's popularity has not waned significantly since 1990 when VOD was published. There is much to commend Anderson's writings, but underlying these are several flawed principles.
Anderson generally avoids the most sensationalistic attributes of the deliverance movement by stressing truth over power encounters: He recognizes that Satan's power is (mostly) in deception. He puts emphasis on personal responsibility for sin. He focuses on Christ's work in the believer's life as our source of strength. He attempts to derive his theology from the teaching epistles rather than historical gospel stories. He also stresses the importance of forgiveness in a believer's life. There is also a lot of good theology and practical wisdom throughout.
It is precisely all these good points that make it so difficult to notice the occasional error. When all of those errors add up, they lead to big problems. As one author has stated, it is like steak laced with arsenic. It tastes the same, looks the same, smells the same - and it's mostly steak. But that little bit of poison is enough. There are several problematic teachings that under gird Anderson's teachings such as: A faulty view of human nature regarding the flesh, the "old man," the "new man," and the spirit. Acceptance of pop psychology's view of self-identity. An unhealthy emphasis on demonic activity. Confusion of spiritual warfare and demonic possession. The belief that Christians can be demonized (essentially synonymous with possession). Acceptance of a widespread satanic network, territorial spirits, sex demons, generational curses, etc. Ritualistic methods of avoiding spiritual problems. A misrepresentation of Scriptural passages to support these teachings.
The biggest problem with these errors is that they not only lead to false conclusions, but tend to counteract the good teachings of Anderson as well. This sometimes has the appearance of "balance" but only when one ignores the obvious implications of Anderson's total teaching. For example, Anderson's emphasis on personal responsibility is abdicated by his insistence that Christians can reach a point where they lose control over their actions to demons that take over their lives because of past sins.
Anderson's problematic view on human nature, faulty view of sanctification, unhealthy focus on the demonic in the life of a believer, his view on what constitutes occult involvement, his uncritical acceptance of urban legends and subjective experiences to validate his claims, his poor handling of the Scriptural text in several areas, his misunderstanding of the authority of both Satan and man, his fusing of two different concepts regarding demonic influence, and the other problems listed here lead this author to the conclusion that Anderson's writings, while full of truth, contain enough error that they should not be trusted for good theology. | | The Bondage Breaker: Overcoming Negative Thoughts, Irrational Feelings, Habitual Sins by Harvest House Pub Keep the baby when you're throwing out the water | There are some who think ALL of this is a figment of our own imagination. I would, too, if I didn't actually experience such of life's oddities as these. I don't see myself ever being able to convince Hank Hanegraaff that such experiences don't exist, but I certainly can vouch for and believe in the realities of my own personal experiences.
Consequently, the problems he's trying to solve in this book are very real and very relevant to many many people who will not be understood by a vast majority of people today.
I do feel, though, that he's building a ministry around extra-biblical teachings, and that's shaky at best and potentially harmful.
Here's an example of one of his assertions: You cannot communicate with demons through your thoughts; you have to speak out loud for demons to hear you.
Well, that's an interesting assertion, and maybe it's true. But I've found lots of evidences to the contrary. He seems so convinced that it's true that part of his truth encounter procedures are based on that assertion. Again, the Bible doesn't say one way or another, but I found his degree of certainty on this to be slightly troubling. Somebody at his ministry did send me some literature on the reasons why it was thought that people cannot communicate with spirits through just thoughts, and while I still don't agree, I don't think this is a deal breaker, as in I won't denounce his ministry simply on the basis of some controversial topics that could go either way. My real concern is that he may end up doing more of the same with things that the Bible does not teach although here I don't have any specific evidence to say he's doing such a thing. For all I know, he may not be.
However, I will say that I very much appreciated his book and his ministry as I was going through my problems with harmful spiritual experiences. His assertion that these spiritual encounters are truth encounters rather than power struggles really hit it on the nail for me. That part is very Biblical, although trying it in real life may not always get you the results you expect because the Bible does not tell us all there is to know about demonic encounters.
For instance, if you're having a debate with a friend, you can't always expect that spouting a particular fact will have its intended result, that is, to force your friend to say, "touche." The truth is important, but so is the context. In my experience, telling a demon to go away in the name of Jesus is a mixed bag. I don't even know whether that's our duty to do all the time. Even Paul used that authority sparingly.
All I know concerning how one should "be" around these spirits is to first humble yourself and submit to God. Go to him for help. And then resist these spirits, not trying to hold down a conversation with them. There's no need to shout, yell, make a show of power. Dr. Anderson is right about that. The authority to command another free-willed entity stems from your identity and your standing (your authority to say such things). I suppose in this context, resisting is really to do what God wants me to do, and if I know what the devil is trying to do, do the exact opposite of what he wants me to do. But this is more tricky than saying a few lines. It's more in knowing who you are and what rights you have to think and act the way you want to because of the freedom given to you by God.
So with this book, you'll really need to scrutinize a lot of his assertions because they may just be plain wrong from a factual sense. But I thank him because his insight helped me get through a very tough time in my life, and the concept of demonic encounters as truth encounters where knowing the truth and living it was the remedy was a lifesaver, at least in my particular case.
Would I recommend this book? Yes, but be like the Bereans in the book of Acts chapter 17, and really scrutinize what's being said in light of scripture, but also realize that there are ways to interpret his assertions to make his points seem ridiculous and there is a way to interpret what he's saying so that you get a sense of what he's really trying to say. |
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