It’s not only Catholics that exorcise demons. When I was growing up, foreign missionaries (Baptist) often stayed with us in the parsonage when in the States on furlough. The stories they told of casting out demons were chilling.
The adults were discussing it, and I was supposed to be in bed asleepN but I listened. Scares the crap out of me.
Where does it say in the Bible that it is not possible for believers to be indwelt by evil sprits/devils/demons? The Bible said that there were those “posessed WITH devils, which in Olde English simply means that one HAD devils. Like fleas. Like parasites.
Matthew 17:14-21/Mark 9:23-29
“23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. 24 And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. 25 When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. 26 And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead. 27 But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. 28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? 29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.”
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The Roman Catholic item known as “exorcism” is not the same item as biblical deliverance.
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An interesting side note: Most “modern” Bibles have removed Mark 9:29.
I would suppose that anyone in the mission field who is a true Christian, has been witness to demonic forces. When Lester Sumrall came back to the U.S., after many years traveling in different countries, including third world countries, he said to himself, “I’ll be glad to get back home, away from all this demonic activity”. He was shocked to discover that the U.S. had the same problems. He was quickly disabused of the idea that demon possession and oppression would not be fully operating here, too.