Demon Possession

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Hello, Achilles!

At 03:27 PM 2/1/99 -0500, Achilles wrote:

>On 1 Feb 99, at 19:27, Matthew Bell wrote:

>> > Ed

>> > 

>> > I said that it's "typical," not universal, for Christians to exorcise other

>> > Christians.  That's because Christians tend to live among other Christians.

>> > 

>> > Duh.

>> 

>> Matthew Bell

>> And I say your statement is blatantly false, especially considering that many

>> in Christianity take the same 'opinion' of Christian demon possession as

I do,

>> i.e it is not possible. There is nothing typical about it except in your own

>> mind.

>

>Achilles

>Are you seriously proposing that ones 'opinion' that a demon cannot possess

you 

>is sufficient to make it so? 



CREA
    Of course Matt probably thinks that opinion is sufficient in cases like
this.  I also suspect that Matt is unfamiliar with Cotton Mather's work
__The Wonders of the Invisible World__, in which that learned divine
expounds at length on the Devil's assault (often by possession) on the pious
Christians of New England. 

   BTW, just this morning I ran across an item that had me ROFL.  Seems some
New-Age type is SERIOUSLY questioning the germ theory of disease.  He is
reported [briefly] as arguing that (1) infection does not INEVITABLY follow
introduction of the alleged pathogens, thus casting into doubt any attempts
to establish a causal etiology for a viable germ based theory; and (2)
NOWHERE in ANY of the current crop of medical literature dealing with
disease or diagnosis, is there any demonstrations, proofs or experimental
evidence that would lead to the conclusion that that demon possession does
NOT cause disease.  ;-)


With Mettaa,

Joseph Crea
<Joseph.Crea@worldnet.att.net>

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