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I did not say that drugs are demons. How do you know that God does not allow people to be "touched" by demons through the wickedness of others? Similarly, very small children have been trafficked by the thousands by wicked people. Did God not allow them to be "touched" against their will and...

Why do you keep trying to personalize this to me as if I am personally involved in such things? The thread is about establishing sound doctrine about what is and is not true about demon possession. Discussing that subject at length does not mean that I am "in a place where people would do that...

Let's consider some parallels. Suppose a 2-year-old child is kidnapped because of a lapse in parental inattention in a public place and then trafficked by human traffickers. The child is now being held captive against his will. The child did not choose to be in that state. The child did not give...

How is this a right response to the things that I have been saying? Are you saying that even when people through their sinfulness have put themselves in a position to be possessed, they still even then have a choice of whether they are going to be possessed or not even though they have sinfully...

Yes, I do believe in demons. Multitudes of other Christians also believe in demons, but they deny that certain things can cause demon possession. Because the Bible does not seem to reveal anything specific about what has caused people to be possessed and about what cannot cause possession...

In the first instance, the difference is that I would know and believe that drug cartels exist. Concerning those who do not believe that demons exist, they do knowingly and willingly involve themselves in those activities, but they do not, however, thereby knowingly and willingly give demons...

Not really. People who do not believe that demons exist somehow yet knowingly and willingly are complicit with them in giving them permission to possess these people who do not believe that demons exist? How can someone be considered as knowingly giving permission to something that he does not...

Does the Bible say anywhere specifically that these are the means by which people have been possessed? If so, where does it say those things? If not, why not?

Hmm. Your view about possession seems to require knowing, willing permission given by a person to demons as an essential requirement for a demon to possess a person. Is that so? If so, atheists who do not believe in demons and would engage in occult practices to show that demons do not exist...

So then do you believe that David knowingly gave Satan permission to move him to do that unrighteous census? Did Ananias knowingly allow Satan to fill his heart to lie to the Holy Spirit? More pertinent to this discussion, do you believe that the child that we see in Scripture who was possessed...

True, but such complicity is not the same thing as permission because Scripture speaks of people who were demonically influenced and does not give any indication that they even knew what had happened to them. If that was true for those who were only demonically influenced but not possessed, how...

How is any of this relevant to the multitudes of people that we see in the NT who were possessed of demons? They were all unbelievers who somehow became possessed at some point in their lives. The fact that they were possessed proves that they were not in submission to God and therefore they...

An unbeliever does not submit himself to God. James 4:7 does not apply to unbelievers.

First Corinthians 10 seems to be a passage that likely points to one leading cause of demon possession, as follows. Writing at least more than a decade after Jesus had been crucified, buried, raised, seen of many credible witnesses, and then had ascended to heaven, Paul instructed the believers...

Ok, thanks for the additional explanation. I had no idea what you were getting at with your comments about Matt. 12:43, but I now see how you are understanding what that text reveals. I will give these remarks careful and extended consideration and get back to you about them.