10.31: How to Stop Idea Viruses that Satan wants to Feed into Our Minds

<p>My intentions today was to cover the history of the Day of the Dead (Dia del lost Muertos) or All Saints Day and All &nbsp;Souls Day. I started watching some videos on the history of these &nbsp;festivals until the Holy Spirit urged me, “You don’t want to go there.” &nbsp;In a nutshell, it’s all <a href="https://giselleaguiar.com/2020/08/02/proven-truth-how-paganism-and-idolatry-started-in-the-church/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">paganism</a>. I already did the <a href="https://giselleaguiar.com/2020/10/05/%ef%bb%bfwhat-you-need-to-know-about-celebrating-halloween/">History of Halloween</a> which started with All Saints Day, and I opted to take this in a different direction.</p> <p>My reason for wanting to do a post on the Day of the Dead is that I &nbsp;live in Arizona. The Day of the Dead is a Mexican festival, though it’s &nbsp;origins go back to the Celts and Catholic adoptions of pagan rituals and &nbsp;beliefs. But then, God reminded me of a study I did in the <a href="https://bible.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">YouVersion free Bible app</a> called “The Secret Battle<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Battle-Ideas-about-God/dp/1434709655/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1493392642&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=secret+battle+of+ideas+about+god&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=singresoguid-20&amp;linkId=1fb57d8b2963365edb13b6426683aaec&amp;language=en_US" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"> of </a>Ideas about God” by Dr. Jeff Myers and one of its sections.</p> <p>Today’s church — Christian and Catholic — has been infiltrated by the culture. James said…</p> <blockquote>Don’t you realize that &nbsp;friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If &nbsp;you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.<br> James 4:4 NLT</blockquote> <p>And you don’t want to become an enemy of God.</p> <h2>Stopping Idea Viruses....</h2> <p><a href="https://giselleaguiar.com/2020/10/31/how-to-stop-idea-viruses-that-satan-wants-to-feed-into-our-minds/"><em>