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From USA today........ The Vatican hopes to step up its game against demon possessions with a week-long international conference in April to address a threefold increase in demand in Italy alone for the services of exorcists.
The church is particularly alarmed over the uneven skills of some of its current exorcists and worried about priests who are no longer willing to learn the techniques.
The assessment is a major finding of a four-day meeting in Sicily that included testimony on sects and Satanism, according to Vatican Radio.
I believe that while a believer can be demon influenced, he cannot be demon possessed since the believer is indwelt by the Holy Spirit. By 'demon influenced' I mean that there are ideas and teachings that Satan introduces into the world by various means such as entertainment, education, art (none of which are in themselves inherently evil), religious activity, government, etc. The believer who is not oriented to God's plan through study of the word of God and being consistently filled with the Holy Spirit can be deceived by Satanic ideas which are in opposition to God's plan and purpose for the believer. But again, I do not believe that a demon can take up residence in the body of a believer in Christ Jesus.
Only people who had converted to Christ and later in life then lost their minds with illness like dementia or mental depression could be heavily demon influenced and still be saved to Christ for heaven , as God spirit will hold to believers who have lost their minds ............... Any believer who has the renewed conversion with the spirit of God through the redemption of Jesus Christ can have the spiritual authority to deliver themselves and others from demons spirits through Holy Spirit , so If these priest have the spiritual charismatic renewal of Christ for in other terminology born again God protects His own with His power
Demons (whatever they are) can exist inside ANYONE. Having a one-time salvation "experience" does not automatically fix every spiritual problem a person has. I know people born-again Christians for decades, with evidence of demons in the latter years. I would not respect any god who would even work that way. And that idea does not even line up with anything I find in the Bible either.
Bright "light" (holiness/purity) and deep darkness (evil) cannot co-exist, so no to the question.
Also, incidences of "demons" are greatly exaggerated. Most (all?) that people label as such are likely just defective thinking (the mind playing tricks on them, combined with huge fear issues and ignorance). I'm not saying demons or evil spirits don't exist, but that them showing up is extremely rare. We give them huge amounts of validity and "power" for appearing and causing problems to many, when they really don't have that power. They're actually quite limited. But people want to take the easy way out and blame sources outside of the body, rather than looking honestly at their own brain, thinking patterns, and emotions. It's easier to blame a 'demon' than being personally responsible and accountable. We see that all around us in other areas too.
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Can a true BELIEVER in the body of Christ be demon possessed?
I think they can, yes. I would have thought not, but I've seen too much wickedness holding onto professing Christians to think otherwise at this point.
I think they can, yes. ... I've seen too much wickedness holding onto professing Christians to think otherwise at this point.
Again, it goes back to individuals and their brains and functioning. In this case, people claiming to be Christians, while not being so, not being authentic. I.e. Christian in name only. If they were less ignorant as to what being a Christian means, and if they were honest with themselves (seeing the disconnect between how Jesus lived and how they lived), this wouldn't be occuring. It's not a case of evil, it's a case of wayward human thinking, personal deception, and lack of personal responsibility/accountability.
We'd all be better off dropping the Dark Ages thinking, and get real with ourselves and others.
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Again, it goes back to individuals and their brains and functioning. In this case, people claiming to be Christians, while not being so, not being authentic. I.e. Christian in name only. If they were less ignorant as to what being a Christian means, and if they were honest with themselves (seeing the disconnect between how Jesus lived and how they lived), this wouldn't be occuring. It's not a case of evil, it's a case of wayward human thinking, personal deception, and lack of personal responsibility/accountability.
We'd all be better off dropping the Dark Ages thinking, and get real with ourselves and others.
The concept of, or the word demon and demonic doesn't bother me as it does some because Jesus spoke of them. There are evil spirits in the world, no doubt about it. Some of them manifest in the lives of professing Christians as well as Atheists and people of other faiths or no faith at all.
The concept of, or the word demon and demonic doesn't bother me as it does some because Jesus spoke of them. There are evil spirits in the world, no doubt about it. Some of them manifest in the lives of professing Christians as well as Atheists and people of other faiths or no faith at all.
Considering this past year, evangelists on TV, the outcry for separation from the world, the desire to starve the hungry, reject education, allowing children to die in the name of "freedom," and watching 90% of the people struggle and fall into economic purgatory, these events are not the result of a Christ lead church, but rather these are the desires of a demonic possessed organization hell bent of dividing us.
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