"I believe in one God, Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, Our Lord. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into death. On the third day He rose again. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father. And He will come again to judge both the living and the dead."
James 2:19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!
Intellectual assent is not saving faith." *****************************
To Be totally honest. That is not true. I speak from personal experience. Your example is Yes and No.
No on the demon. Yes on a person. It depends on the person just mouthing the words without real belief in the personal pronoun confession. But a real belief in the personal confession is true(1 John4).
James 2:19 is declaring God not Jesus Christ in the Flesh(1 John 4). You have to remember the two distinct differences.
Humans and Demons(fallen angel=Remember fallen(Why)). They(demons) were pure before there rebellion thus fallen then judged. Very dissimilar between man and angel. If you remember Christ declares the devil(s) has already been judged.
John 16:11"Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged."
They(demons) can not go back. It is done. They have been Judged. Period. Eternal damnation awaits them.
But some people can just say it rudimentery. Now Why. Because they have not been judged yet. Once they live there life to the end then comes the righteous or damnation judgement.
A possessed person cannot declare Jesus as Savior or came in the Flesh/human. I have personally seen this in real life. The Demon or demons are in control unless exorcised.
I have written before about this. I helped a friend move whose wife was into spell casting. She would take plastic sandwhich bags roll then up then put a spell on it for a person then put it into the freezer.
I prayed before hand to help them move from one house to the other house.. I will not have anything to do with this knowingly beforehand. I felt the Lord wanted me to go which was true.
To make a long story short or Longer(LOL!).There is alot more. Cut to the chase. She had Christian books mixed with new age (Goddess, spellcasting and other forbidden books).
She tells me she is a Christian. I declare to her in front of her Husband. You are no such person. I then told her I will prove it.
I ask her to declare it in the personal pronoun. Well she could not declare it. I told her to declare in the personal pronoun that Jesus Christ came in the Flesh/Human. Also that Divinity became Human/Flesh.
Without a Doubt she could not declare it. Nor in the form of the Apostles Creed or Nicene Creed either. When she got to try "born of the virgin Mary "she would contorted then blurt out with a stutter that there was "Many Gods".Also notice the Movies today have the Greek or Roman god characters today. The prince of the air is really brainwashing man. Heaven help us.
It was just amazing how true his word is for real. He is faithful to his promises.
1John4
You can bank on it! Praise Jesus who came in the Flesh/Human!!
1 John 4
On Denying the Incarnation
1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
God’s Love and Ours
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister."
I also gave her husband a Blessed Living Prayer Exorcism Medal and Cloth(Acts 19:11-12). He would show her and she would fall on the floor.
Praise Jesus! He is So True to His Word!!
AMEN! AMEN!!
The Pharisees had the intellectual part all nailed down. They KNEW, but their hearts were unrepentant.
Jesus whole focus is on the heart, such as in the Beatitudes.
Romans 10:8-13 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. 13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
John 1:11-13 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.