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Originally Posted by Chad Leyton
You/your/yourself
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You, your, yours, generally are plural. "Yourselves," the reflexive form, suggests many rather than one. Where do you stand on injury: cutting: head banging: self immolation: that thing where one whacks into oneself with little spikes on a chain? Islam promotes this [Muharram, Ashura/Ashurah
-ed.] also Rome's heretics endorse flagellation for unknown reasons but they're unlikely to be wholesome and demons are certain to be involved; no Christian would ever do this.
Mark 5:1-5 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
So often the new-age types, distracted by an unclean spirit, carve themselves up or get busy with crystals and revolting incense honestly why can't they just pick some flowers if they want a nice fragrance? but no, they have to stink up the joint with weird and ridiculously overpriced bits of gum they could pick off the bark of anything they'd see on a 5-minute walk in the woods. So I hope that by "yourself" it's not meant to imply "many" per the demoniac described by Mark.
Mark 5:1-5 And he [Jesus] asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
Christians never think about demons — unless confronted by one or by several at the same time — even so, demonic activity is rampant and causes so much suffering, lunacy, cutting, head banging, various types of music and interpretive dance and mime and lighting displays and theatrical performances and false belief systems, the list is virtually endless! Everywhere! All the time! For heretics there's nothing else, for us there's only Jesus.
In Him.