Indeed your opinion. As other stated and truth derived from Scripture not "opinions", you cannot be a Christian and demon possessed. If you think this way, than that is perversive! How dare you even say that one who worships Almighty GOD can be demon possessed. I won't waste time asking you for Scripture of this, it does not exists.
Chad, what I was saying is that it can happen to everyone (if you believe in such things) there are no acceptions, there are many Christians who become troubled and turn directly to their priests and mentors for spiritual guidance, you do not understand, you see, that when a Christian suffers, it becomes labeled as "mental illness" and they get thrown into mental institutions for the wrong reasons! Furthermore, those willing to do the exorcism are persecuted by the law, no one gets out easy.
I suggest you dwell more on Scripture than " I have been largely interested in the topics of possession and exorcism ever since this movie started premiering". Hollywood is Hollywood. You assume its all "factual" based on what? Because the Christian director says so? That's garbage and naive. Hollywood's "truth" is full of lies. Seriously.
No, because I've observed it for
myself, I think it's garbage and naive to say that these movies "are intentionally against God", the entire plot of the movie is based on a real person, you can google her up: Anneliese Michel. This movie was to shed light on a story that had a message connected to it, it changed and effected many people's lives, it was a turning point in the investigation of psychological problems in comparison with a spiritual presence, because of the actual events, some turned to faith in God (there was an actual psychiatrist who evaluated Anneliese's behaviors but I forgot his name)
So my sins are not enough "evil" for me to notice, to realize, to be convicted by the Spirit of GOD of my evil wrong doings? I guess than we cannot acknowledge our own evil unless we "look it in the eye".
Hold up, slow down here, you're admitting yourself to my point, two things: authentic genuine demon-possession is reported very rarely to be unnatural and without a psychological cause, second, if you sincerely believe what you just typed, then you would have to agree that in the midst of slipping and going astray, you become vunerable, this is in any instance (if you can't follow I don't believe you've read much of the bible yourself sir), if you want to use the sheep analogy, a pack of wolves surround the sheep, anyone who goes astray or willingly leaves the flock is vunerable to attack, the weak and the sickly are also vunerbale to attack, usually the first to be spotted by the predators, and the same thing applies to your belief system, that's why clergy and pastors are appointed, if you recall with Peter, "feed my sheep."
Before going around calling yourself "the prophet", start reading the Bible. Prerequisite: humility
I try to be more intellectual than accusing things at face value and judging a book by its cover, "there's demons in that movie, it's obviously evil" that's blatantly ignorant, the world isn't all sunshine and skittles, the world is a brutal harsh place, if we continue to cower like helpless sheep and always go after what's "G-rated" you could be opening yourself up to the Anti-christ, it's deception, it comes unexpedectly.
Look, I was raised in a Christian enviroment and even to this day I think that a majority of Christians are really representing themselves poorly, I rejected Christianity myself because it sounded absolutely ridicolous, I however had a wake up call, that doesn't mean I go rushing into the church dancing and clapping my hands like a lunatic, it means that I needed to re-arrange my thinking, and even to this day, that's what I'm doing, when I read the bible, I don't see a "G-rated" tag on the cover, I see something that takes serious consideration and is told the way it is, you would teach your kids that Jesus had a crown of thorns around his cranium but you won't let them say "shut up"? Please note that I am not insulting anyone here, I am making a point, if you want to have some Christian material with some scripture in it for a broader perspective, look into "An Exorcist Tells His Story" by Fr. Gabriele Amorth, he speaks of his own accounts and trials when exorcising the demonized, and expresses the reality of each case (there are many cases were he's dealt with skeptics, non-believers and Christians.)
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