the enemy's tool

[ReginaForbes]

I wonder the impact this has on the younger generation

I can tell ya right now, it's not good. Just last month one of my Sunday school students tried to tell me a dirty joke...and this was coming from a 10 year old! TEN! Exposure to sexual situations at a young age has been known to screw people up for life...and we wonder why babies are having babies, or how homosexuality or pedophilia is running rampant!

 

[Gary]

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[Edward]

Edward have you ever taken a college level marketing class? Believe me it isn't little demons controlling what is in advertising. The advertising business has over the many years done studies, including physical responses in people to different stimuli. They know exactly what most people are attracted to for certain products. I remember one such study done by laundry detergent companies. They found that when it came to people thinking clean and fresh they responded to certain colors like orange, yellow, and bright green. Now think about the color of a Tide or Gain box. Also fabric sheets.
I could go on listing example after example. They aren't selling sex, they use what people are attracted to, to sell product. It's all about the psychology of humans.

The Bible never says that demons are the big problem in the world. It says people are.

No, but it says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and so forth. People are not the enemy, Satan, evil, and his minions are. So that tells me, that demons and evil spirits are the problem, or a problem for us. Of course people do have lusts of the flesh that give us problems, but if we lived in a world where evil and evil spirits were not present, things would be a lot different, don't you think?!

I realize that the lusts of the flesh are catered to in advertising, and people do react to certain stimuli and so forth like you say, and this is true. But if they would leave us alone with the sexual advertising and so forth...things would change dramatically in general.

 

[turnorburn]

Yes we do Edward and colored boxes aren't the only thing Satan and his angels use, add music to the list as well..

tob

 

[Edward]

Yes we do Edward and colored boxes aren't the only thing Satan and his angels use, add music to the list as well..

tob

Oh yeah, forgot that. Music is a big one. It sticks in your head
advertising jingles are very effective

 

[Deborah13]

No, but it says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers and so forth. People are not the enemy, Satan, evil, and his minions are. So that tells me, that demons and evil spirits are the problem, or a problem for us. Of course people do have lusts of the flesh that give us problems, but if we lived in a world where evil and evil spirits were not present, things would be a lot different, don't you think?!

I realize that the lusts of the flesh are catered to in advertising, and people do react to certain stimuli and so forth like you say, and this is true. But if they would leave us alone with the sexual advertising and so forth...things would change dramatically in general.

God judged satan and his minions. But God also judges people and He is not unjust in doing so. That says to me that we cannot blame satan for our own failures. I do believe however, there are times when satan is directly involved in things.

 

[ReginaForbes]

Oh yeah, forgot that. Music is a big one. It sticks in your head
advertising jingles are very effective

I've noticed it even more once I've stepped away from secular music for awhile. One day I decided to give the pop radio station a listen to...well the lyrics of the song that was playing were mocking the Bible. I turned the radio dial right back to klove and I haven't gone back since! Oh and the song was "same love" by macklemore.