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Do Christians actually believe in demonic possession?

  • 12-11-2011 11:37PM
    #1
    dilbert2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 364 ✭✭


    Considering all we know about mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, epilepsy etc. and how they can affect a persons personality or physical capacity, are there still actually religious people who believe that invisible demonic forces can gain control of a persons body, when the supposed demonically possessed victim is suffering from a as of yet un-medicated neurological or medical condition such as the two noted above.


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  • #2
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    Maybe in America, but I doubt most normal christians believe that nowadays.


  • #3
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    You can not ignore the taint of chaos


  • #4
    bitemybanger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,475 ✭✭✭bitemybanger


    What do ye mean invisable demonic forces. i can see mine perfectly:(


  • #5
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    I'm like a Demon when i'm Bursting

    22/25



  • #6
    Arawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,158 ✭✭✭Arawn


    If it's in that fantasy novel they believe is real they sort of have to


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  • #7
    Bipolar Joe
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    I think they're called Scientologists, now.


  • #8
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Arawn wrote: »
    If it's in that fantasy novel they believe is real they sort of have to
    Or else they're not good Christians.


  • #9
    Kevin Duffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,439 ✭✭✭Kevin Duffy


    Do Christian bankers do demonic respossessions?


  • #10
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Yes, yes they do. They also believe in the easter bunny and the tooth fairy. If they don't, they are excommunicated and dunked on the dipping chair before being dried off with hells breath and burnt at the stake. It's a big ask, but most do their best. Personally I firmly believe in Demonic posession and have met many posessed persons. One tried to take my parking space in Dunnes today, but I recited a verse from the 2nd book of ***** at him and he skulked off to the cave from whence he sallied.
    edit: this post has been demonically posessed and my cnuts has been transformified into a series of demonic asterisks. Proof if proof were needed.


  • #11
    wonderfulname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    Well the Vatican still appoints exorcists, and who could forget this hilarious conference?


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  • #12
    dilbert2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 364 ✭✭dilbert2


    wonderfulname wrote: »
    Well the Vatican still appoints exorcists, and who could forget this hilarious conference?

    Blaming clerical child abuse on the devil, what a shower of arseholes they truly are.


  • #13
    Fbjm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭Fbjm


    Christians believe a lot of things, I've learned to just accept their gullibility and distance myself from it.


  • #14
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I've been possessed ever since doing a ouija board carved into a gravestone when I was 15.
    Any bad I have done since then is because of the spirit of the inhabitant of that grave. I am not to blame for my own actions.

    Praise Jesus.


  • #15
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Terry wrote: »
    I've been possessed ever since doing a ouija board carved into a gravestone when I was 15.
    Any bad I have done since then is because of the spirit of the inhabitant of that grave. I am not to blame for my own actions.

    Praise Jesus.
    "I forgive you my child"-Pope Pious the shirt lifterXXXv1.

    Give to your local Church collection, think of the children, and their compo.


  • #16
    John Doe1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    In the United States of Retardia and some of the more backward african countries, yeah. They are funny like that


  • #17
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Solnskaya wrote: »
    "I forgive you my child"-Pope Pious the shirt lifterXXXv1.

    Give to your local Church collection, think of the children, and their compo.
    Thank you.
    Praise Jesus.


  • #18
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Gummy Panda wrote: »
    You can not ignore the taint of chaos

    'Blessed is a closed mind filled with faith'.


  • #19
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Terry wrote: »
    Thank you.
    Praise Jesus.
    If Jesus was alive, he'd avoid the Catholic church like a Cavan man avoids buying a round.


  • #20
    PK2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,219 ✭✭✭PK2008


    dilbert2 wrote: »
    Considering all we know about mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, epilepsy etc. and how they can affect a persons personality or physical capacity, are there still actually religious people who believe that invisible demonic forces can gain control of a persons body, when the supposed demonically possessed victim is suffering from a as of yet un-medicated neurological or medical condition such as the two noted above.


    Yes, no, maybe, I dont know, who cares, why do you care, nobody cares.

    Let them believe what they want


  • #21
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Also, there is the small matter of me and others, knowing feck all about schitzophrenniaie and bi-popular disorder yet believing that I/We are experts in the subject-that is the black swan in the unction. I believe that all schizophrenics are just misguided, and so do I.


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  • #22
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Anyone who doesn't believe in demonic possession should watch this documentary.....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDGw1MTEe9k


  • #23
    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


    This post has been deleted.


  • #24
    the purple tin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    It wouldn't be so bad being possessed by demons as long as the feckers would pay a bit of rent :mad:


  • #25
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    You could ask over yonder. Personally as a Christian I do. There is a spiritual force that brings us to know God, and there are spiritual forces at work bringing many people away from Him. Given the state of the world, I don't think that's beyond believable for me. Perhaps it is for many if they assume that God doesn't exist.

    Perhaps I'm not a normal Christian though :)


  • #26
    yutta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭yutta


    Solnskaya wrote: »
    If Jesus was alive, he'd avoid the Catholic church like a Cavan man avoids buying a round.

    Funny that the Catholic Church is the only apostolic church. I wonder what Jesus would think about that?


  • #27
    3ndahalfof6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,184 ✭✭✭3ndahalfof6


    to be fair I think Dominic has a lot of stuff.


  • #28
    housetypeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,197 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    philologos wrote: »
    You could ask over yonder. Personally as a Christian I do. There is a spiritual force that brings us to know God, and there are spiritual forces at work bringing many people away from Him. Given the state of the world, I don't think that's beyond believable for me. Perhaps it is for many if they assume that God doesn't exist.

    Perhaps I'm not a normal Christian though :)

    Yes , you could ask over yonder and have the thread locked at once,
    Sometimes that forum looks like a hardware store with all the locks.


  • #29
    alex73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭alex73


    Read screwtape letters. The best way to get people to hell is to make man think the Devil does not exist.


  • #30
    alex73
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,729 ✭✭✭alex73


    yutta wrote: »
    Funny that the Catholic Church is the only apostolic church. I wonder what Jesus would think about that?


    The Catholic Church is not the only Apostolic Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church as full apostolic Succession recognised by the Catholic Church. So does the Coptic Church as far as I remember.


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  • #31
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    In the United States of Retardia and some of the more backward african countries, yeah. They are funny like that

    But its in The Bible which is the word of God and The vatican still has exorcists so why do you consider The US and African countries as backwards when it comes to their faith?


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