I would like to offer an example from Scripture which can show how people do not fully come into the light, but love darkness, by which they also do not come into the light, because they don't want their deeds exposed, just as they know that they are not perfect in God through the new birth.

As with the letter to the Laodiceans, what happens if someone actually moves backward, and not forward, in an attempt to not fully come to the light? Even though they might be able to give evidence as to why they are in Christ, deception and the veil of sin is present, and they are found hypocritical. In moving backwards from Laodicea, someone might puff themselves up, as if they are right with God, and are fellowshiping with other people who also say that they are believers. The church before Laodicea was Philadelphia, and Philadelphia usually stands for brotherly love. The letter to Philadelphia said that they were in right standing with God, and all they had to do was hold onto what they already had.

In going backwards from Sardis, someone would be going unto Thyatira, and the biggest problem with Thyatira was the way that they allowed Jezebel. The letter said that Jezebel was leading people into sexual immorality, and to eating things sacrificed to idols. Just as the OT is an example for us in the NT, the sexual immorality can be spiritually discerned, as it doesn't have to occur physically. Therefore, it is possible for people to be believing in a doctrine of demons, just as simplicity exalts Jezebel. Many people in the church nowadays do not try to walk by keeping themselves from food sacrificed to idols. One example of this might be eating Easter candy, knowing that the word Easter comes from "Ishtar" who was a pagan god of fertility. This idolatry being allowed nowadays, is as Easter is the holiday worshiped on the resurrection day of Christ: the Jewish feast of first fruits. The Bible also says that we can eat food sacrificed to idols, through faith, by not contributing to the idol through worship, but knowing that the earth and all that is in it was created by God, and is good. However, through the example of the OT, we can also distinguish how the food sacrificed to idols can happen spiritually. And thus as people love simplicity and therefore follow a doctrine of demons, through false humility, the very words that they may believe are from God, may be from and through the powers and principalities of the kingdom of darkness, which still manifest in a way that offers goodness, though it isn't in God's oneness and actually good.

These examples show how it is possible for a person to still believe that they are in right standing, and with correct discernment, and yet be heading in the wrong direction, through not fully coming into the light. The only way to be connected unto the Head of the body of Christ, who is Christ, is through the perfection of the new birth, whether we are stumbling in sin, or not. The danger of the love and friendship of the world, and doctrines of demons, is very much so found in how simplicity seeks to offer a way that we may be agreeable, and not have to strive so much to enter into the straight and narrow gate. Just as 'everything is everything, except the things that aren't,' leads into the mixing of beliefs, between what is in God and what isn't, knowing also that the meaning of the name Babylon, includes the definition 'to mix.'

An example of what this world would call insane, is David's time in the wilderness. People do say that the definition for insanity is 'doing things over and over again without new results.' The defintion for insanity, as if through a morpheme, which breaks down the root word and it's suffixes and prefixes, actually means 'to be unable to be sane.' This differing than a person just not acting in a sane way. This is why, according to the common sense that is in the world, striving to enter into the straight and narrow gate of God, seems insane. Just as the words strive and strife also mean that a person is working a lot, but having only a little fruit. Therefore it is expedient that our faith be continually worked out, just as Paul says for us to pray continually, at all times. And when we walk like that, we have every moment to be able to believe in God regarding something, and work out our faith, both in the sense of growing more and more, and coming unto the goals we have in Christ.