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I agree completely, but that is not the subject of the thread

I believe that is true, but many will raise objections to such a view because of the implications it has for their beliefs about certain cultural practices and products of certain peoples.

Here's another dimension of what I am probing. On the one hand, we are given several details about king Manasseh's engaging in idolatry and the occult, but we are never told that he became possessed at any point in his life. On the other hand, however, Scripture speaks of numerous specific...

I agree wholly that a true Christian can never be possessed by a demon, but that's not really what this thread was ever intended to discuss. Still, I appreciate your sharing this info but hope that it does not lead to further discussion of whether Christians can or cannot be possessed.

I take it that you mean that giving that specific information to us in Scripture would not have been edifying. If so, why do you think that the Spirit has included many specific accounts of people's engaging in highly unedifying conduct of many other kinds but none about what happened so that...

I have no doubt that there are many today who have apostatized who once professed to be Christians.

True, but what do you make of the Spirit's not giving us even one specific record of what a specific unbeliever or more than one specific unbeliever did that resulted in their being possessed?

When the Spirit inspired 1 Timothy, there were no Catholics, Mormons, etc. My comments are based not with specific modern groups of "Christians" in mind but on the text's saying that some depart from the faith, which shows that they once professed to be Christians but then apostatized.

Yes. Is there some significance to this comment that pertains to my post and the subject of this thread?

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain...

Mark 9:25 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. Jesus permanently delivered this boy from the demon's ever being able to enter him again. Having...

This is an expected response from someone who cannot answer factual information with actual in-depth responses, so he has to resort to ad hominem instead. The fact stands that your assertions about the Greek verb that has been rendered as "demon possessed" etc. are not a sound understanding of...

King Manasseh was a horrifically wicked king over God’s people: 2 Kings 21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and...

It is vital to proper spiritual health that Christians study in depth what God has revealed in His Word about demonology so that they can answer false Christian views, claims, and reasoning about things that mistaken Christians say do not and cannot lead to demonic influence and possession...

It is edifying and essential to study in depth what God has revealed in His Word (2 Tim. 3:16-17). Properly answering faulty Christian views and reasoning requires thorough, in-depth study of what God has said.

On the contrary, it is you who has set forth an understanding of the Greek verb δαιμονίζομαι that is an understanding that is wanting. The standard Greek lexicon, "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third Edition" (BDAG), gives only one definition...

Here is some of Jesus' own teaching about demon possession: Luke 11:14 And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered. 15 But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the...

I seem to be making more and more errors, I am so sorry I misrepresented you with my blatantly false post. It's ok. Mistakes happen.

You are mistaken. I did not reply with these remarks. Someone else did: sojourner4Christ

You say that people "become lost" through engaging in "'occult practices' that lead people away from God." If your statements mean that you think that people who are truly born again and saved by God can "become lost and [be] given over to Satan," you are teaching what is wrong. No one who is...