It's a fallacy of the western world to divorce the physical from the spiritual. Physical death, after all, first came from a spiritual one. I'm not claiming some mysterious, mystical force; I am simply advocating cause and effect. If a woman smokes crack while she's pregnant, then she's going to give birth to a crack-baby. If a man beats his children in alcoholic rages, then those children are more likely to succumb to alcohol abuse than other children. If anyone truly finds it so hard to believe that generational consequences exist, then I'd like them to watch a woman give birth to a child and get back to me.
However, I'm really not interested in persuading a bunch of strangers to believe something they clearly do not wish to believe; I was interested in offering advice to someone in need. I have better things to do than argue with inexperienced skeptics.
I disagree. Satan isn't spiritually dead, he's a fallen angel. Now a spirit like Satan, who used to be Lucifer, doesn't actually seem to die. If you have some good exegesis on the Book of Revelation, feel free to rebut me, but I'll wait for that. The fallen angels are not dead, and I don't see any demons die in any of the Bible stories I've read, they are only cast out of people. Now the story of them entering the pigs and then running the pigs off the cliff, that would bear some prayer and meditation. Have you ever prayed and meditated on that story? And when the Holy Spirit answered you, did you receive a divinely inspired message that when the pigs died so did the demons? The Bible contains prophecies not only of the end of time, but of what will be in Heaven after the end of time, if you see the evil angels as ceasing to exist after the last judgement at the time of the resurrection, I'm for you. Looking forward to that myself. But Satan isn't dead yet, and neither are flash and blood human sinners. People are not dead in sin, they have made small or large errors of judgment and possibly behavior, which only Jesus can forgive them for. The problem with Protestantism isn't that people need priests to forgive their sins, it's more that there's also a legal loophole in the judicial system that lets these secret chamber psychologists into the economy, who look for "12 Step" programs, and courses of pills, and admittedly very small welfare cheques and rental assistance to substitute for the spiritual atonement. They're not dead. Even the actually crippled ones aren't dead, and if they were, a doctor would be able to do nothing about that anyway. Yeah, I know. Luke the evangelist was an actual practicing physician. But who performed the resurrection, Luke, or Jesus, of whom Luke wrote.