From Steve Harmon:

THE RELIGIOUS SPIRIT IS THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE SPIRIT on the planet. It robs people of an accurate picture of who God is by seeking to distort and falsify God’s true image. The demon will operate in a way to portray God as someone who is legalistic, impatient, agitated and angry, self-centered, hardly laughs, neglectful, careless, always serious, a sadist, kills people randomly, and is expecting perfection.

When a person’s view of God is distorted and inaccurate from a religious spirit it will cause two general responses. The person them self becomes legalistic and emulates all of those negative attributes of the way they see God or they walk away from God because it’s too difficult to live up to God’s rigid expectations of them. When a person emulates this false version of God, they become a tool of the demonic while thinking they are being used by God. The demonic knows that the best way to get people to deny God is to put out a repulsive or tainted image of Him and what better tool to use?

People who claim to represent Him.

So because of the thousands and thousands of false representations of Jesus through history via the religious spirit, Christianity has been a bad taste in the mouth of many. There have been some heinous representations of Jesus over the years and so many have been really wounded by them.

The religious spirit causes a person to be emotionally stiff and rigid. It makes a person dogmatic and argumentative in the negative. They never argue to find truth, but argue to be right. The spirit causes one to judge people by appearance rather than judging by what is below the surface. Unfortunately, they judge a book by its cover. They desire religious activity and tend to shun heart connection because heart connection means vulnerability and transparency. They want to live behind a façade over them. They condemn others for not living at the level they believe is God pleasing. They don’t want to change and they get stuck in their own ways. They’re beyond reproach and can’t be corrected. They have zeal for the wrong things and apathy for the right things, meaning, they emphasize religious activity and neglect loving their neighbor. Lastly, that spirit causes pride in which they cannot see their own flaws. They lift them self up above everyone.

When the world sees this type of representation, they turn away and avoid it at all cost. The demon successfully tricks the person to deny a relationship with the one true God. And the consequences of that denial leads to every problem that we face in the world today. People’s lives get destroyed and they destroy the lives of others.

Jesus is the Hope for the nations, the savior to the world, the healer of all sickness and the definition of love. The demonic has to convince people that God is not good and doesn't have all these benefits because the demonic knows that God will always pursue people, so the demonic has to get people to run from God, since God will never run from them.

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