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1. THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE
CHRISTIAN MIND
Tim Stafford
First Baptist, Eustis, FL.
Cross Training - July/August, 2009
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2. SESSION 3 – AWARENESS OF EVIL
The Foundations of the Christian Mind
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3.  But in your hearts set Christ apart as
holy [and acknowledge Him] as Lord.
I Peter 3:15-15
(AMP) Always be ready to give a logical defense
Key verses for the
to anyone who asks you to account for
foundation of our the hope that is in you, but do it
study courteously and respectfully.
 [And see to it that] your conscience is
entirely clear (unimpaired), so that,
when you are falsely accused as
evildoers, those who threaten you
abusively and revile your right behavior
in Christ may come to be ashamed [of
slandering your good lives].
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4. Evil Revisited
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5. Man is Inherently Evil
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6. Man is Inherently Evil
Two important questions and answers:
If God is so
powerful then why
doesn’t He destroy
all of Evil?
If there is a God
then why is there
Evil in the world?
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7. The Appearances of Evil
One way our culture paints evil in a “Pitch fork and Horns” type manner.
We have “icons of evil” that represent what we deem evil to be.
Evil is ugly, bloody, gothic, dark, and black.
Evil is represented by ghosts, demons, witches, warlocks, serial killers, and the “unholy.”
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8. The Appearances of Evil
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9. The Appearances of Evil
Another way our culture paints evil is in an “Acceptable Deviant” type manner.
We have “icons of evil” that represent what we deem evil to be.
Evil is brooding, unpredictable, psychotic, and in the shadows
Evil is represented by insanity, psychosis, instability and fundamentalism.”
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10. The Appearances of Evil
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11. The Appearances of Evil
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12. The Reality of Evil
The Bible also calls
By being an angel of
The Bible calls Satan Satan a “roaring lion
light, many more will Bait and switch
an “Angel of Light.” seeking whom he may
be drawn to him.
devour.”
Larger than Counterfeit
Charismatic Counterfeit
life himself
Fear
Colorful Contradictory
mongering
Charming
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13. The Reality of Evil
Marilyn Manson Gaahl (Gorgoroth)
I only believe in myself. God, the Devil,
Right wing/ Left wing, the Good/the Bad
“ I 100% support church
are antinomies located in everyone of us. burnings because we need
Why should we choose one or the other?
Catholicism makes people feel guilty to rid every trace of
concerning some aspects of everyone's
personality and Satanism enables people to
Christianity have to offer
express the natural desires of everybody this world. Satanism is
without any consequence. I incarnate the
contradictions of any human being. freedom.
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14. The Reality of Evil
Adolf Hitler Josef Stalin
"We demand freedom for all religious
confessions in the state, insofar as they
do not endanger its existence or conflict You know, they are fooling us,
with the customs and moral sentiments
there is no God... all this talk
of the Germanic race. The party as such
represents the standpoint of a positive
about God is sheer nonsense."
Christianity, without owing itself to a
particular confession...."
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15. The Reality of Evil
John Lennon Bill Maher
God is a concept, / By which we
can measure, Our pain, / I'll say it
again... / I don't believe in magic,
/ I don't believe in I-ching, / I Christians and others
don't believe in bible, / I don't who are religious suffer
believe in tarot, / I don't believe from a neurological
in Hitler, / I don't believe in
Jesus, / I don't believe in disorder that "stops
Kennedy, / I don't believe in people from thinking."
Buddha, / I don't believe in
mantra, / I don't believe in Gita, /
I don't believe in yoga, / I don't
believe in kings... / I don't believe
in Beatles, / I just believe in me.
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16. The Reality of Evil
Oprah Winfrey Tony Robbins
Every religious book on the planet
“There are many ways talks about the power and effect of
to approach the diverse faith and belief on mankind. People
realities that different who succeed on a major scale differ
people call God. Each greatly in their beliefs from those
must find his/her own who fail. Our beliefs about what we
way" are and what we can be precisely
determine what we will be.
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17. Nine Satanic Statements
The from The Satanic Bible by(unofficial)
Humanist Manifesto Anton LaVey
 Seek indulgence  Seek vengeance instead of
instead of abstinence turning the other cheek
 Seek vital existence  Seek to blot out any
slavery to guilt and assign
instead of spiritual pipe responsibility to the
dreams responsible
 Seek undefiled wisdom  Embrace the vicious
instead of hypocritical animal that man is from
self-deceit within
 Seek awareness of the
 Seek those deserving of flesh
kindness instead of  Remember: Satan is, in
wasting love on fact, the best friend of the
ingrates church.
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18. In Closing
 Resist the bait and switch concepts of evil that
Satan is peddling. Evil is not always in a red suit.
 A counterfeit truth is far more dangerous than a
contradictory one. Contradictory truths spawn
conversation; counterfeit truths spawn a dense
darkness.
 Realize that evil is rarely relative when it comes to
the innate moral compass within humans.
 An awareness of evil is important to find the subtle
messages that are the most damaging.
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19. REMEMBER:
ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
The Foundations of the Christian Mind
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