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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.

Wrong. I do not have an obsession with demonology. You, on the other hand, seem to be focused on interposing yourself in my discussions with comments that are not germane to the topic of discussion. Furthermore, studying in depth what God has revealed in His Word about demonology is not...

I am sorry that you agree with Ascetic X on this point. Sound demonology is a vitally important doctrine about which many believers need much more careful instruction.

Can you explain further how Mt. 12 supports that view because I am not following you at all. As far as I can tell from Scripture, this world is not currently given to the authority of men. Satan is the god of this world (2 Cor. 4:4). The whole world lies in him--that is, in his power (1 John...

Why do you think that "some kind of permission granted by the individual for a devil" was something that definitely was so? Any passages come to mind to support that view? Vacancy of the sort that you are talking about is true for all unbelievers, but we only see a subset of them who were...

The NT indisputably and emphatically reveals the reality of demon possession. Concerning those people who were demon possessed, one of two things had to have been true: (1) They were born demon possessed or (2) they became demon possessed at some later point in their lives. The NT does not seem...

On the flip side, many people probably hardly ever read the whole Bible and probably just live on things like the Daily Bread, verse apps, etc. There is no substitute for reading the entire Bible itself. It is true that God has given gifted people as teachers, pastors, etc. to instruct us, but...

Reading the whole Bible again and again and again is essential. No amount of reading even good devotional books or other good Christian literature can take the place of reading the Bible itself repeatedly and entirely for ourselves. A verse for the day on an app, etc. is not enough.

In another thread, additional corrupt communication was recently directed toward me: I found these remarks to be highly objectionable, especially since (in spite of the use of "if") there was an implicit suggestion that perhaps I have been involved in criminal activity ("The local law...

For the record, and so that no one else has any questions, the information that I provided in a previous thread about the objectionable drumheads has nothing to do with me personally. It was information from a missionary biography about cannibals in Irian Jaya. The nature of the comments in...

You do not provide any Bible to back up these statements. Are they true simply because you say so? As I have already proven in another thread, just because the Bible does not talk against something directly, that does not prove that speaking against it is merely a matter of "personal...

This comparison does not carry any weight because the Scripture itself teaches us that such sacrifices are no longer the will of God, but it does not teach any such thing about the use of musical instruments.

I am not sure what you mean by, "Old or New Testament?" We are commanded not to be conformed to the world. Stringed instruments are acceptable to God, but we do not use electric guitars because we believe that would be conformity to the world.

There are numerous commands in Scripture for God's people to use musical instruments in the worship of God.

I categorically reject any and all use of rock music and rock-based music, etc. in worship. My church does not use any such music. I do not believe that all drums are of the devil, but it is undeniable that some drums are (human skull drums, drums with drumheads glued with human blood, and...

Yes, they were things about which believers had to be fully persuaded for themselves, but it still stands that under inspiration Paul did not speak to the ones who were wrongly judging others by saying to them that they were not legitimate Christians because they were doing so.