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Deaf and Dumb Spirit, epilepsy etc???

  • 23-01-2008 2:31pm
    #1
    JimiTime
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    I'd like Christian comment on this please. Thanks.

    There are passages is the New testament that refer to people being 'posessed by a dumb spirit' etc. One that comes to mind is the one about the boy who used to fall into the fire or water etc. The demon is expelled, and the boy is cured. My criosity about this, is that an ailment that the father said the boy had since he was a child is called a posession. What would your reckoning on this be? Is epilepsy demonic? Are certain conditions down to evil spirits? Or is it lack of medical understanding back then? If so, then why did Jesus expel a demon? Its a little confusing for me. Any thoughts on it would be appreciated.
    J.

    PS: Mark 9:17-27 is where you'll find the particular incident I'm alluding to.


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    PDN
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    There are a number of conditions that could cause the symptoms described, not just epilepsy.

    If the situation in this case had simply been epilepsy then I believe Jesus would simply have cured the epilepsy. As it was, He cast out a demon, which would indicate that the problem was one of demonisation not epilepsy.


  • #3
    JimiTime
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    PDN wrote: »
    There are a number of conditions that could cause the symptoms described, not just epilepsy.

    If the situation in this case had simply been epilepsy then I believe Jesus would simply have cured the epilepsy. As it was, He cast out a demon, which would indicate that the problem was one of demonisation not epilepsy.

    Ah, I've just seen a seperation of the two in Matthew

    Matthew (4:24) reports that people brought Jesus ailing ones including “demon-possessed and epileptic” persons, drawing a distinction between these two types of individuals cured by Christ.

    I've also read about the translation being 'moonstruck' rather than 'epilepsy', which is from the Greek meaning, seizures.

    I seem to recall incidents where it says that someone was posessed with a 'dumb demon'. Am I making that up? or do you know of such a reference?


  • #4
    PDN
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    JimiTime wrote: »
    I seem to recall incidents where it says that someone was posessed with a 'dumb demon'. Am I making that up? or do you know of such a reference?

    Mark 9:17

    'Moonstruck', by the way, would be the equivalent of our word 'lunatic'.


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