Of course, in literature and film (think Poltergeist and The Exorcist), the evil forces enter through the child because the child is open and not particularly logical. I have no idea if this is true in real life because I’m not even sure I believe in demonic possession. Knocking wood as I speak.
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I don’t know about the novel “Poltergeist,” but “The Exorcist” is based upon an actual event that occurred in Mount Rainier, Maryland. See — http://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2014/01/14/real-story-behind-exorcist
I first heard about this before the movie came out from a priest at college when I was working in the college library, I don’t recall how the topic came up, but he knew the senior priest in the story. 30 years later, I met a Catholic Deacon and the topic of exorcism came up and I mentioned Fr. Kaiser telling me about the real ‘Exorcist’ incident, and discovered that this Deacon knew the younger priest. And he said that the younger priest has “been haunted” by the memory of that event ever since.
I believe in demonic possession, but I do NOT believe that people with psychic gifts from God are automatically demonic, that determination is based, in my view, on do they use their gift for good or evil. See my earlier post # 59 on 1st Cornithians, Ch 12.
“Of course, in literature and film (think Poltergeist and The Exorcist), the evil forces enter through the child because the child is open and not particularly logical. I have no idea if this is true in real life because I’m not even sure I believe in demonic possession. Knocking wood as I speak.”
In order for a demon to enter the child’s soul there must be a wound that created the opening to allow it to enter. Ordinarily the purity of a child’s soul in of itself is sufficient to protect it.
The wound must be healed in addition to removing the demon or as the Bible says, seven more even worse than the first may return to take its place.
Back when I was doing a lot of spirit removal and releasement work I would interview each of the malevolent spirits and ask them what happened to this person to allow the evil spirit to enter. These people were adults of all ages and both genders. Very often the spirit would tell me that the child was molested, tell me who and when it was done and that they were with the molester and moved in during the violation. The violation created the wound.
It’s not the logic that protects the child, it’s the emotional purity. God shines through them. Often when women becomes pregnant I will know it before they do as the quantity of Love radiating from the newly developed fetus shortly after separating from oneness with God is very strong and unmistakable.