Youngprer,
I really enjoy your postings to this forum, they've given me a lot of encouagement. But (you knew that was coming), I have a couple of issues with your last post. Your view of evil is very cavalier. As a Christian, you should take evil very seriously. There is a recurrent theme in the bible about us and evil. That is for God to keep us from it, not for God to help us defeat it. Psalms 23 does say "I will fear no evil, for you are with me" (NIV) but the following words are "your rod and your staff, they comfort me". That's God giving us the guidence we need to stay away from evil. For example, when I go to the zoo, I don't fear the lions but I'm not going to get in the cage with them. As for using evil for good, evil will chew you up and spit you out before you new what hit you. Only God can turn something meant for evil into something good.
As for the original post, I kinda agree with
1Died4ALL in that I just stay away from the stuff I think can get me in trouble. I once heard a pastor talk about using the tools of the mystic without becoming a mystic. He spoke specifically about using meditation to quiet one's mind from all the distractions we have to improve our prayer life, but care needs to be taken. Satin will try to keep you from God, distractions are one of his favorite methods.
Michael
