RE: A question about the love of god
August 6, 2014 at 1:32 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2014 at 1:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The word we use as demon in all of those "casting out" texts, is, more accurately, spirit. They saw no distinction. "Demons" achieved sickness in the same way that "undefined" achieved sickness. They simply chose to communicate some instances of sickness (and probably as an extreme negative value judgement of the affliction) as explicitly demonic, rather than vaguely "spirit related". That they didn't ascribe possession to all ailments goes without saying (but they also didn't think that a demon had to possess you to make you sick, demons as a specific spirit could use other spirits, such as the spirit of infirmity or the spirit of leprosy- to make you sick). I suppose, in a way, they did think that demons might be sprinkling flu dust on people, but also that flu dust was a thing itself, a spirit in it's own right. Just that it was more inconvenience, and not quite "demonic".
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