47: Can the demons read our minds?

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Pints With Aquinas

7 жыл бұрын

Today we'll take a look at one of Aquinas' lesser known works, On Evil. In it, among other things, he addresses the question, can the demons read our thoughts. That's what we'll be discussing.
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@joeschmoe6720
@joeschmoe6720 3 жыл бұрын
Praise the Lord Father God Almighty who created all things. Thankyou Jesus Christ for your sacrifice on the cross for the cleansing of our sins. In Jesus Christ holy name and authority I rebuke any demons invading the mind. Lord please bless us with your grace and help rid us of these paradimensional parasites. Amen.
@shawnrowland8776
@shawnrowland8776 2 жыл бұрын
Yes they most certainly can hear our thoughts.Fact.i hear them all the time and trust me they are real as you and me.
@bigfigism
@bigfigism Жыл бұрын
ditto. experience speaks louder than theology on this subject.
@shawnnrowland6250
@shawnnrowland6250 4 жыл бұрын
Yes demons can most definitely read your mind.i promise you they can.
@Returnality
@Returnality 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the ones that talk to me even admit it!
@ptlkiwi4296
@ptlkiwi4296 4 жыл бұрын
Shawnn Rowland if they can tempt us and attack us in dreams , I agree
@francescaf.5916
@francescaf.5916 4 жыл бұрын
Temptation has nothing to do with actual mind reading.
@kerrinpeters2673
@kerrinpeters2673 3 жыл бұрын
Returnality me too /:
@Joyjoy-ih1ie
@Joyjoy-ih1ie 3 жыл бұрын
Only if your hanging out with them, i doubt you want that. If demons read your mind you need serious prayer with strong Christians! God bless.
@francescaf.5916
@francescaf.5916 4 жыл бұрын
Demons exist, they are (fallen) Angels. They are spiritual beings - not monsters. This doesn't mean that we should develop irrational fear about demons or the devil. We must resist temptation though, as tempting men is ordinary action of the devil.
@intothenature1817
@intothenature1817 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing, What can attribute to the knowledge of subtle subject matter to know it in obvious way.
@kellyhynam925
@kellyhynam925 2 жыл бұрын
They can read minds and they can talk to us in our minds
@donquixotedelamancha58
@donquixotedelamancha58 4 жыл бұрын
Cool topic
@leonardsari6558
@leonardsari6558 4 жыл бұрын
paradimensional orientals are the most knolegable.or did the demons somehow trick me into believing that
@watchvideos4055
@watchvideos4055 2 жыл бұрын
Only GOD can read thoughts. Devils don't read our minds they read our actions. That is why it's called "TEMPTATION" to invoke/trick someone to commit something against their own will. You guys need to stop guessing and really pray for the truth.
@johngarrett5517
@johngarrett5517 4 жыл бұрын
Absolute lunacy.
@Mx25a
@Mx25a 6 жыл бұрын
I cannot agree with you at all. Let me write about it a little. A demon is an intelligible being, he was an angel, no? So the devil is pure act of evil, he is the perfection of evil itself. he doesn't have evil as a potential but as an act. A demon can't be "privation of good" in itself, a perfect privation of good, a total privation of it means simple "non existance". Remember, God is equal to be that is equal to the good, so to the demon to be, it must be has its perfection - the existence - from God. But from God the demon must have its perfection, the evil itself, also. Now, we all know very well that the cause is always better, more noble and perfect than the effect. So, what is the unmoved mover of the evil, the perfection that the demon has? Ah, demon's arrogance, he envys God, the Good itself. But wait... is arrogance, envy better and more noble than evil itself? Of course, no! both belong to evil itself, they are its attributes. To deny it is to deny that the cause is always better and more noble than the effect. So, who gave the demon is perfection, the evil itself? Well... God. it is utterly non sence. God has the perfection of evil??? How come? Finally, an angel is an intelligible being. how can an intelligible being envy, be arrogant and evil? Can a number be in love? Can a geometrical figure be evil? If you ask me, can an intelligible being be good, i say yes, a geometrical figure shows, itself, the perfection of criation, the perfection of God's mind. But saying they have emotions is crazyness!!! But things can be worst, very worst than that. Intelligible beings belong to the eternity. A geometrical figure doesn't die. So saying a demon exists is saying it is eternal. it will persist for good. So, do the demons exist? No, it is impossible. Why? First, God can't be the efficient cause of evil, its unmoved mover. Second, intelligible beings don't feel emotions as we do. Now, if you say to me: "forget logic and reason, read the Bible, demons exist!", well, ok. Like Paul says: "what has Jerusalem to do with Athens".
@oliverrodriguez7470
@oliverrodriguez7470 5 жыл бұрын
"He doesn't have evil as a potential but as an act." Yes, true but he possesses this evil as an accident, it is by no means contained within his essence or quiddity, otherwise we'd have to attribute God as the creator of evil, which is absurd. No one claimed that a devil if a privation of evil. A demon is a movable intellect or pure intellectual substance since it is an angel. We are saying that evil in of itself is a privation. If God created everything, and evil falls under the category of everything, it must therefore follow that God is the creator of evil, which is absurd. Therefore evil must be a lack of good, specifically a lack of form, being, etc. Now a demon may have a wholly intellectual hate. As God loves us, though not in the sense we love him, he doesn't have the hormones or corporal capacities to love us in that way, a devil may hate us in this way. A geometrical falls under a completely different genus than a demon. The latter is a mathematical form, the other is an intellectual substance with rational faculties and habits. Also God doesn't think in mathematics. For math is merely an abstraction of matter. God possesses all knowledge directly and has no need to convert this knowledge into phantasms. I may have misunderstood you btw. So your argument doesn't work, since a demon can't be evil in of itself as demonstrated above.
@gabrielr4329
@gabrielr4329 5 жыл бұрын
God only creates good things. The nature of demons isn’t evil, it’s created by God. Evil has no ontology. What’s evil is the move of the will against God. Demons are permanently and intentionally willing against God. This distinction between the nature and will of a created being is why we are commanded to love all men, especially your enemies. The nature of your enemies isn’t evil, but the will of them is being directed against God. We should feel compassion, love and pity to our enemies, willing against God never end well.
@shawnnrowland6250
@shawnnrowland6250 4 жыл бұрын
Man you are sooo dead wrong they are Angels with free will just like ppl.God said they were created a little above humans we are eternal too,anyways I have seen them and heard them you have no idea how dead wrong you are and how evil they are.
@shawnnrowland6250
@shawnnrowland6250 4 жыл бұрын
Gabriel R no God creatures beings with will of their own choice.
@maaritkujansivu7818
@maaritkujansivu7818 3 жыл бұрын
@@shawnnrowland6250 How have you see and heard them?
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