Now for category 3, do not let this category throw you off, but what I am about to post does happen a lot.
Self - It was honestly hard finding what to name this category, and it may not even be the most appropriate name, but i decided to call it "
Self", which relates to our own thoughts, our own imaginations and yep in some cases even being gullible, some Christians relate way too much to the supernatural.
Thoughts and imaginations (I don't know whether if I am word this right, haha, so please forgive me if I don't) - sometimes we can mistaken our own thoughts and imaginations for God's voice.
Thoughts and imaginations also can also be related to someone being gullible, hehehe, I am sure some of you have heard this stuff. I will give a major recent example though, did anyone see, hear the video of the Golden Gate Bridge recently? Maybe we have some members who even live around that area that heard the sound, many Pentecostal and charismatic Christians were saying it was the sound of trumpets or angels or a heavenly noise.
Here is a video, this noise could be heard from across the bay.
After doing some fact checking, it was actually a new modification to the bridge, and when the wind blows through the bridge, with these new modifications, the bridge makes a humming sound, some new sidewalk railings were installed onto the Golden Gate Bridge, and when the wind blew through, that's what was making the noise.
Why the Golden Gate Bridge made strange noises with the wind Friday
Other examples, now there are real genuine supernatural instances, but there are also natural occurrences of lights being reflected onto ceilings and walls of Churches, some people get all excited and jump to conclusions about these lights being angels, but in some cases it is the sun reflecting of some tree leaves, or maybe windows, and then it reflects onto the walls and ceilings.
And then there is the artificial, did you know people can try and manufacture signs and wonders, a few do sadly try to manufacture being hit by the Holy Spirit, some will manufacture tongues, some will manufacture the shakes and some will even manufacture being slain in the Spirit, and in these cases this is people doing it themselves, making them self do it.
And then there is the shocking cases, there are a lot of Christians that do not understand mental health illnesses, some do not even have a basic understanding of mental health problems, I am talking about things like depression, some Christians will jump to conclusions and confuse mental health illnesses with someone being demonically possessed, some will try to deliver them from demons when the person is not actually demon possessed, but really they have just went through some rough circumstances and have suffered a mental illness as a result. As a result a person is not recovered and ends up walking away from the Church, with trust damaged.
This is why it's so important that we have Christians that operate in the gifts of discernment and words of knowledge, these are 2 very important spiritual gifts, we need believers that can accurately diagnose someone's problems, we cannot just play the guessing game or make assumptions.