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Username Please enter your Username. Password Please enter your Password. Forgot password? You could not be signed in, please check and try again. The Old and New Testaments have plenty of other instances where angels aided believers in times of need. They are definitely there to help us!
God also uses fellow Christians in aiding us. For a Christian to be a part of a body of believers is absolutely essential to his or her walk with God.
Being in and around a group of believers in a personal way does much for our welfare. There is power in just the assembling together. A group of believers will do many things for one another if they are following Christ and His words.
This enables us to stand firm for Christ. Salvation is the key issue in this matter. This is the ultimate discourager to the thought that a demon can possess a Christian, because all three Persons of the trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit reside in those who know and love God! It would be safe to say that Christians are already possessed, by Almighty God!
Believers in Christ are currently undergoing the lifelong sanctification process being made holy. Our sin nature is vulnerable to the lusts of the flesh, and this is the area where the devil and his angels come at all men, believers included. We are tempted by those three areas, and it is through manipulation of these unholy desires that Satan, the god of this world, tempts unsaved man and blinds him to the gospel of Christ 2 Cor. Thankfully, God has given us everything we need pertaining to life and godliness 2 Pet.
It is no surprise, therefore, that our instruction is not to worry about being demon-possessed, nor are we to cast out demons. God tells us that our battle is spiritual, and that we are to put on the whole armor of God Eph.
Spiritualism, a religion that flourished across America in the s and is still practiced in a few places today, teaches that death is an illusion and that spirits can possess humans. New Agers have also long embraced a form of possession called channeling, in which spirits of the dead are said to inhabit a medium's body and communicate through them.
Hundreds of books, and even some symphonies, have been allegedly composed by spirits. Hollywood, of course, has been eager to capitalize on the public's continued fascination with exorcism and demonic possession with films often dubbed "based on a true story.
The greatest cultural influence, of course, came from the classic "The Exorcist. The script was written by William Peter Blatty, adapted from his best-selling novel of the same name. Blatty believed or claimed to believe it was an accurate account, though later research revealed the story had been sensationalized was far from credible.
As for historical accuracy, though, Cuneo characterizes Blatty's work as a massive structure of fantasy resting on a flimsy foundation of one priest's diary.
There really was a boy who underwent an exorcism, but virtually all of the gory and sensational details appearing in the book and film were wildly exaggerated or completely made up.
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