Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

How Demons Can Affect Objects
Catholic Answes ^ | None Given | Tom Nash

Posted on 01/03/2025 12:35:12 PM PST by DallasBiff

Can objects be possessed by demons? Can dreamcatchers carry demons? Is there biblical evidence for this?

Only people can be demonically possessed. But inanimate objects can be negatively controlled through curses. As Adam Blai, a lay Catholic expert on religious demonology and exorcism, writes:

A curse is simply a demon sent to do some harm. . . . Cursed objects are objects that have had the opposite of a blessing done to them. Instead of grace being attached to an object to make it holy, a demon has been attached to the object to make it associated with evil (Hauntings, Possessions and Exorcisms, p. 45).

(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: demonic; demons; evil; furniture; qanon
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-58 next last
To: Jamestown1630

Are you speaking in code?


21 posted on 01/03/2025 1:23:16 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: jerseyman

I sometimes wonder about this computer I’m using.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Ha ha, that’s funny, but now that I’m thinking about it computers do seem to be potentially more demonic than anything else on the planet, other the Marxist-Democrats of course.


22 posted on 01/03/2025 1:25:26 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Never forget, the Marxist-Democrats & RINOs who would destroy our country ARE STILL HERE!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: jerseyman

I sometimes wonder about this computer I’m using.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Ha ha, that’s funny, but now that I’m thinking about it computers do seem to be potentially more demonic than anything else on the planet, other the Marxist-Democrats of course.


23 posted on 01/03/2025 1:26:00 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat (Never forget, the Marxist-Democrats & RINOs who would destroy our country ARE STILL HERE!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: DallasBiff

Our Missions professor at Seminary brought back a mask from Africa on one of his journeys. Then weird things began to happen — moving and banging in his office at night. It was the floor below the women’s dorm. The building was locked. Security stationed people at every door 24/7.

Prof. finally got rid of the mask and all was quiet after that.


24 posted on 01/03/2025 1:27:27 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DallasBiff

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7

I can personally attest to the truth of this.


25 posted on 01/03/2025 1:31:50 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fortes fortuna juvat

Three or four years ago, in a very serious manner, I intoned that AI chatbots are the modern day Ouija boards and the emergent personalities and proto-intelligence you see can be demonically influenced, even if quite amicable on any given interaction. AI is the ultimate tool for the devil to use to accomplish his sordid goals. Keep this in mind as AI “companions” become more and more human-like.


26 posted on 01/03/2025 1:38:15 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: DallasBiff

Burning occultic books was done by the early church because of this. (This was voluntary and involved the owners burning their own property.)

Acts 19:19 NKJV
Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver.

I remember when it was not uncommon for Evangelicals to call for burning music albums and other objects associated with the occult.

That is the example of how to deal with cursed objects in the Bible.


27 posted on 01/03/2025 1:45:23 PM PST by unlearner (Still not tired of winning.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

Note to Self...


28 posted on 01/03/2025 1:53:01 PM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

My pastor uncle told me of this one theory, demons are the souls of the Nephilim, who cannot enter any afterlife because they weren’t human. Basically like the Thetans of Scientology.

Another theory on ghosts, is the engrams of the mind carry on as energy can’t be destroyed, absent from the soul which ascends. Slowly the energy dissipates, and the “personality” becomes a mindless wraith.


29 posted on 01/03/2025 2:07:14 PM PST by Mr. Blond
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: DallasBiff

This glass of wine is demonic. I have to exorcise it.


30 posted on 01/03/2025 2:10:25 PM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

Thanks. I,ve read a helpful previous post of yours.


31 posted on 01/03/2025 2:15:19 PM PST by Cold Heart (Government for moral and religious people. Democrat party is neither )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: FatherofFive

Nice pun!


32 posted on 01/03/2025 2:23:20 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: reasonisfaith

That’s Your Testimony as A Witness to the Righteousness of Christ.
We are not asked to prove Anything,
Just WITNESS.
.
Yuppers!


33 posted on 01/03/2025 2:33:33 PM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Karliner

Um...


34 posted on 01/03/2025 2:39:02 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: BipolarBob

Your ouija board isn’t possessed, you moron.
It’s just the planchette.


35 posted on 01/03/2025 2:51:03 PM PST by samiam5
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired; DallasBiff
The energy of evil can attach and stay with an object or location.

Yes (although we might quibble whether "energy" is quite the right word; e.g., residue?). Hugh Ross reported a couple experiencing disturbing physical experiences in their new home--one room much colder than the others, etc. Careful search revealed occult objects left behind in the garage rafters by previous owners; when removed, the manifestations ceased.

36 posted on 01/03/2025 2:53:58 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“The King of Kings salvation brings—let loving hearts enthrone Him.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: chuckb87

Didn’t Jesus cast some demons into a herd of pigs?

/

darby taught that ....

/-)


37 posted on 01/03/2025 2:57:02 PM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: DallasBiff

Ask anyone who repairs any kind of machine for a living. Demons, or gremlins, or something, exist in every complex mechanical device ever made.


38 posted on 01/03/2025 3:00:04 PM PST by NorthWoody (Half of all people are below average, and half of those are in the bottom 25%.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: chuckb87

(Didn’t Jesus cast some demons into a herd of pigs? )

Out of a man

Into the herd of swine 🐖🐖🐖🐖

Since there were 2,000 pigs it is assumed that there were at least 2,000 demons in that man

We are Legion - for we are many

They said


39 posted on 01/03/2025 3:03:30 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ....... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Ate, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: MayflowerMadam

MY guess is that the object is not really possessed by has demons assigned to it.

I hope he burned the thing to get rid of it. You certainly don’t want to give something like that away.


40 posted on 01/03/2025 3:08:14 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-58 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson