Dave Hunt

Nuggets from Occult Invasion—Occultism and Selfism

December 5, 2020

By turning the focus inward, the Freudian/Jungian obsession with the unconscious spawned a menagerie of selfisms that invaded not only the world by the church: self-love, self-acceptance, self-improvement, self-worth, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-ad nauseam. Selfism is at the heart of the occult. Self is the sanctuary of human potential. It is...Read more

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Question: The Bible says, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure” (Phil 2:13). Then why do I so often fail to do His will and to please Him? I more often please myself by doing my own will. Why?

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Question: I recently read the March 2005 Ladies’ Home Journal (LHJ) column by Rick Warren and was greatly disturbed....Comments, please.

Question: I was literally stunned by a passage a friend read to me from a book by Karen Mains...what seemed to be her communication with a personal spirit guide. Am I reading too much into her writing?

Question: I am struggling with the terms “surrender” and “submission.” We have all heard the saying that when we become Christians we surrender or submit to Christ. And to a certain extent this is true. I can’t even find the word “surrender” in the New Te

Question: What do you think about the teaching that we all hate ourselves and have to learn to love ourselves?

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