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Do you believe in demonic or any other kind of possession? What does your religion say about it? How can it be differentiated from mental illness?
That's a shame.Sadly, I had Christian friends in the past who said all mental illness was demon possession. They were of the evangelical variety. They don't differentiate between mental illness and possession.
I am sure that the biblical notion of possession was what we would now see as some kind of psychotic episode - or else a fit. There was no medicine in those days.Do you believe in demonic or any other kind of possession? What does your religion say about it? How can it be differentiated from mental illness?
No, I don'tDo you believe in demonic or any other kind of possession? What does your religion say about it? How can it be differentiated from mental illness?
No. Is it relevent?Ever watched the Stigmata?
No. Is it relevent?
Do you believe in demonic or any other kind of possession? What does your religion say about it? How can it be differentiated from mental illness?
Personally no belief in it. AFAIK Hinduism as a whole doesn’t hold with it either. In Hindu ontology and theology it doesn’t make sense, actually, it’s contradictory.
Do you believe in demonic or any other kind of possession? What does your religion say about it? How can it be differentiated from mental illness?
I think spirits speak to us constantly. This is how thoughts come into our head.Do you believe in demonic or any other kind of possession? What does your religion say about it? How can it be differentiated from mental illness?
Say more about that, I didn't realize.
Personally no belief in it. AFAIK Hinduism as a whole doesn’t hold with it either. In Hindu ontology and theology it doesn’t make sense, actually, it’s contradictory.
I have been haunted by a demon since 2004Do you believe in demonic or any other kind of possession? What does your religion say about it? How can it be differentiated from mental illness?