The Supernatural Worldview Quotes

“then that begs the question of how much faith is enough to guarantee salvation?”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“Some look to Jesus’ words in Matthew 11:11 (“Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist!”) and say that since John didn’t exhibit any psi abilities, and he was the greatest human ever born, these abilities can’t be natural.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“A scholar I respect, Dr. Arnold Fruchtenbaum, warns that demonic transference can occur “even when one has never directly practiced the occult, simply having contact with it by observing it or merely being present as it is practiced can result in demonic transference.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“Still, I acknowledge the best defense against demonic accusation and attack is realized righteousness. Interestingly, this is the truth that Samuel hammered home to King Saul:”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“This extravagant grace has always baffled me. Although positional righteousness is an essential truth, it fails to adequately”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“which is the word of God” (v.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“do not recommend that anyone study parapsychology to the level I did. I urge prayerful caution before researching these areas.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“Thus, he was an early proponent of the most popular view seen”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“uses “demon” to refer to the spirit of a man’s deceased wife:”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“second-century Christian apologist Justin Martyr makes an argument for the immortality of the soul that reflects the view that the term “demons” includes the souls of the deceased:”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“The Awakening: One Man’s Battle with Darkness by Friedrich Zuendel, which is available as a free ebook from Plough publishers at the endnoted URL.[436] The reason this story was cited is because this resulting good fruit seems to authenticate it, and Pastor Blumhardt makes for such a credible witness.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“Thus interpreting Psalm 82 to argue that the “gods” are human men violates the context. After all, men sentenced to “die like men” is hardly a meaningful punishment. Furthermore,”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“Missler points out that holy angels seem to manifest human bodies at will, but demons seek to control the bodies of others. This is well supported by biblical texts, as Missler points out: “Angels can materialize, take people by the hand (Genesis 19:16), eat meals with mankind (Genesis 18:7, 8), and indulge in combat (2 Kings 19:35). Some have even entertained angels unawares (Hebrews 13:2).”[”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“The popular name for the devil, Lucifer, is a Latin translation derived from the Hebrew phrase helel ben-shachar in Isaiah 14:12. While on the surface the phrase speaks to the king of Babylon,”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“Pope Francis is seen by prophecy scholars as matching the description, and my former volume, Petrus Romanus, details how he satisfies a nine-hundred-year-old prophecy pointing toward the False Prophet or second beast in the biblical Apocalypse (Revelation 13:11). Pope Francis is confirming this identity by asserting universal salvation: “The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone!”[402] Of course, the idea that atheists are redeemed is contrary to the teaching of Jesus (Matthew 7:13–14) and the New Testament in general (Galatians 2:16; Hebrews 11:6). Whether or not Pope Francis is the False Prophet remains to be seen, but it is indisputable that he is a false prophet. We’ve seen plenty of evidence for the transition—the paranormal paradigm shift—but who”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“This implies that they were able to observe the events on earth. Can they see earth, or is the information broadcast in heaven? I don’t know.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“Jesus strongly implies that ghosts are real entities.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“Lucian of Samosata (120–AD 200) was the author of more than eighty known manuscripts and is considered the supreme Ancient Greek satirist. His Philopseudes (“Lover of Lies”) is a story within a story, which includes the original version of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice adapted into a poem by Goethe in 1797 and later Disney’s Fantasia (1940).”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“Leib ben Yehiel Michal (1808–1879) explained that one could only contact the dead by means of an ’ob for one year after death. This idea derived from the belief that the soul consists of two components: one tied to the physical body and the other not. He wrote:”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“the later Jewish literature we meet with divisions within sheol for the wicked and the righteous, in which each experiences a foretaste of his final destiny (Enoch 22:1–14). This idea appears to underlie”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“However, hades and hell (the lake of fire) are not synonymous.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“Psychopannychy”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“After the brief respite, Lewis died one week before his sixty-fifth birthday, on Friday, November 22, 1963—the same day on which John F. Kennedy was”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963), popularly known as C. S. Lewis, was an academic, novelist, poet, medievalist, literary critic, theologian, and Christian apologist.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“People don’t normally share hallucinations. If they do, then it suggests a very interesting paranormal cause!”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“the same as that of consciousness, an idea consistent with Cartesian mind-body dualism.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“seems like everybody knows someone who has seen a ghost, and nearly every family has a ghost story somewhere in its past.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“According to a 2008 study, there are 15.8 million Americans who practice yoga, including many self-proclaimed Christians.[321] Twenty years ago, these numbers would have been unthinkable. Stefanie Syman, in her recent book, The Subtle Body: The Story of Yoga in America,”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“No extant copy of Leviticus dates before 536 BC.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic

“An endless regress of causation is irrational. If anything exists at all, then something somewhere must be eternal and have the power of being within itself, properly known in theology as aseity.[305] Plato’s term for this was the “unmoved mover.”
― Cris Putnam, The Supernatural Worldview: Examining Paranormal, Psi, and the Apocalyptic