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But it feeeeeels so good, it must be God!

Perhaps the biggest problem in helping people who don't see the extreme danger of following these Charismatic teachers is getting them to understand and accept that they are addicted to that feeling described above. When these ear-tickling teachings resonate in the soul because they seem to meet some felt need, the resulting glee is attributed to the presence of God Himself. And how dare you call that a bad thing! To do so is, to many caught up in the movement, "blaspheming the Holy Spirit."

I'm in the process of completing an article on reaching Charismatic and Pentecostal loved ones whose souls may be in very real peril as they blissfully follow their feelings straight into apostasy.

Arguing is rarely actually helpful. We cannot make religious addicts see reason - especially because they have been taught not to use reason nor to trust in reason, but to "feel the Spirit" and follow "the anointing."

Nothing will move a religious addict to give up his beloved teachings until those teachings fail him over and over again, forcing the religious addict to confront the facts and examine the teachings instead of his or her own feelings.

It's a tough challenge! But not impossible for God!

-Robin