Demons and angels have been used too metaphorically in our age that they're no longer thought of as individual spiritual entities, but let's do a thought experiment.
Assume these things to be true for a moment:
* That angels and demons exist and many of them are here
* That they are watching us at all times
* The more bad you do, the more you're giving the demons permission to influence (or enter into) you and do more bad
* The more good you do, the more you're giving permission God, the Lord of angels, to work through you to do more good
Assuming the above statements to be true, would you keep masturbating, or lying, or fornicating, or killing, or envying, or gossiping, or puffing up your chest? It's very hard to keep watching porn when you know an angel is towering over you, seeing what you're doing, or when you are sure that a demon is smiling when you're quarreling and losing temper.
What the watchful and all-seeing eye of God is capable of when you believe in Him is MAGICAL.
Now one of my belief in the past, which I've changed, was this. If somebody needs a god to be good, then they weren't a good person to begin with.
That statement isn't really as smart as it sounds like.
In one scene, there was this man, and he approached Jesus, saying, "Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Instead of answering directly, Jesus said, "Why do you call me good? Nobody is good, save one, that is God."
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