A question about the love of god

[John V]

You understand that arguing over the factual accuracy of the beliefs of those people with someone who apparently believes in demons, but not that said demons cause disease, that there is a difference between demonic possession and disease -and that difference in his belief is indicative of a distinction in the minds of those authors who penned the tales- is not very appealing to me, yes?

Of course. You don't like to actually argue. If you did, you'd be willing to support your claims when challenged, or if not possible, to drop or alter your position.

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Are you seriously making the argument that the boy's affliction was caused by something other than the demon and just so happened to cure itself when the demon was cast out?

No. As noted, demon possession is cured by casting out the demon. My position is that demon possession and disease are Biblically two different things which you're conflating.

Also, I quoted the NAS; hardly a rogue translation.

I agree that it's generally a good translation, but as noted, only two out of thirty say the boy was ill. Every translation gets some things wrong.