Thread: Is lucid dreaming satanic?

Thank you Sensei - I really appreciate it!
Don't worry, when you answer - really no stress - eventually is completely fine!
As a literalist Christian pastor - you'll come across situations, where you will need some skills in debating anyway.
You know what? I have an idea - why not show your bible session buddies and your professors this thread, and ask them, what they think? At least the teachers must be able to scrutinize it from the top of their heads, I suppose - and they probably have the corresponding passages as well.
Then we would have it on some authority.
Maybe some of them even become members, if only to argue people out of LDing.
If an official okay should be given - maybe they would start to LD themselves!
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Originally Posted by Nailler

Other than for extreme Christians who believe we're born to suffer and nothing else, why would that be sinful?

Yes - that doesn't directly follow, the way I put it - I'll edit - can still be seen in your quote anyway.
Thing is - even if some of my points can be weakened or completely disregarded - there will be enough aspects left to answer the motion with yes.

Originally Posted by Nailler

Personally, I find the idea that LDing opens the door to being possessed absurd on many levels, but if we draw the long bow and assume there really are such things as demons waiting to take possession of our bodies, wouldn't it be logical to assume that more awareness would make one less susceptible?

Not necessarily - you could pose it like that, and I see the inherent logic - but consider how many people have reported through history, that they have come in contact with spiritual entities exactly through LDing.
And with spiritual entities outside of the allowed ones in Christianity - I forgot to mention angels above.
So that would all have to be contact with daemons (often in disguise as something positive), and they clearly didn't meet them on a real life side-walk - they got visited inside their minds.

And of course it is absurd.

But even basic and common pieces of Christian doctrine strongly discourage anything with properties like LDing - even if you don't believe in the fairy tales - this seems pretty clear to me!