Mark 5:2-13
King James Version (KJV)
2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...ersion=KJV
So my initial questions are:
1. Where did the man's will and the demon's will start and end?
2. How did the possessed man recognize jesus? If the demon's told him that jesus was real and identified him, isn't that an unfair advantage? Why can't demons tell all of us which god is real?
3. If the man's free will is strong enough to drag the demons within him toward jesus, why couldn't he have excised them himself?
4. Why would the demons relinquish control since they obviously knew that meeting jesus wouldn't go well for them?
5. Why would a loving god allow demon possession?
6. What happened to the demons ultimately? From the story, it appeared as though they died. Can demon's simply die and no longer exist?
7. Why did the demons drive the pigs into the sea to drown?
King James Version (KJV)
2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand) and were choked in the sea.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...ersion=KJV
So my initial questions are:
1. Where did the man's will and the demon's will start and end?
2. How did the possessed man recognize jesus? If the demon's told him that jesus was real and identified him, isn't that an unfair advantage? Why can't demons tell all of us which god is real?
3. If the man's free will is strong enough to drag the demons within him toward jesus, why couldn't he have excised them himself?
4. Why would the demons relinquish control since they obviously knew that meeting jesus wouldn't go well for them?
5. Why would a loving god allow demon possession?
6. What happened to the demons ultimately? From the story, it appeared as though they died. Can demon's simply die and no longer exist?
7. Why did the demons drive the pigs into the sea to drown?
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