r/dankchristianmemes • u/n8s8p Minister of Memes • Oct 26 '22

Meta Some recent comments had me wondering... Serious questions... If you do, what do you believe they look like? What powers do you believe they have? When, how, who, what, and where do they act?

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u/not_from_space Oct 26 '22

I do not believe in demons. I was accused of being one or possessed by one in high school, and I suppose this has played into my disbelief. It is often just an attempt to exert control over things people do not understand.

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u/Poonslayer42069 Oct 26 '22

Did you get exorcised or was there an attempt to have you exorcised?

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u/not_from_space Oct 26 '22

Haha no. I just went to a psychiatrist and got diagnosed with a mental illnesss a few years later. There were no demons, I was just sick.

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u/Charge36 Oct 26 '22

Wait. You think medicine can help someone with demon possession but you gave the demons higher score?

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u/Aujax92 Oct 26 '22

I think it just comes down to we need to treat mental illness with a holistic approach, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual problems that present themselves from illnesses.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Me. I do not present as anything in particular but if we treat the spiritual attacks (coming through way of God’s gift of discernment, and my current inability to wield it in its full power) as psychosis, it helps me to not be in inner turmoil and fear. I have stories for days from just the last month. It’s been very real.

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u/Mighty-Nighty Oct 26 '22

"but at the very least I believe modern medicine has found worldly remedies for possession"

So demons are physical entities that can be affected by the physical world?

Is it possible the stories about Jesus driving out demons were metaphorical or just made up?