does anybody really believe in demonic possesion or hauntings?

Question

I MEAN COME ON,, IF IT WERE TRUE WE WOULD ALL BE POSSESED AND HOSPITALS WHERE ALOT OF PEOPLE DIE WOULD BE HAUNTED,, IS THIS NOT TRUE????

IF DEMONS COULD ACTUALLY POSSES PEOPLE,,,GEORGE BUSH EXCLUDED,, THEN WOULNDT WE ALL BE ABLE TO BE POSSESED

Answer 1

yes because demons have powers, but man is more powerful because we can call to JESUS

Answer 2

The horror of demon possesion of real. Do not kid yourself. There are many, many documented cases of authentic demonic possesion. The fatal mistake that most people make is ignoring this reality. It is often called mideaval, or superstitous. After that, if you ask people if they believe the devil exists, or if they believe in hell, and they will tell you no. Once that happens, then usually the faith and belief in God gets reduced to something akin to a self-help system.

Demonic possesion does and has happened. However, the only education most of us have regarding demonic possesion has come from Hollywood, which is the worst place ever to try to learn anything about this subject. We end up thinking that demons can jump in and out of us at will and turn us into mad, raving zombies or something. That isn't the case.

The only way demonic possesion can happen to you is if you will it. You have to permit it, participate in it. They can't just jump in and jump out. On some level of your being, you have to agree and allow this evil to possess you. You have to allow yourself to become a slave to evil.

If you'd like to read a great book on this subject, pick up Hostage to the Devil, by Malachi Martin. I am nearly finished reading it myself, and it is the scariest book I have ever read. Stephen King has nothing on this subject.

Answer 3

Yes it is true demon possesion is possible! Has happened and possibly is happening right now! You like many,many peopl in this world try to explain things away. Really, satan does pretty much what he wants to, one way is by convincing people through logic, that is impossible for demon possession. A lot
of christians today don't put much stock in demon possession either! That could explain why things are getting worse around the world, making ready the beginning of the end to the future.

Answer 4

I am a science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer who hasn't sold anything yet, and through my research I have heard, through books and magazines and firsthand, a lot of stories that have positively frightened the piss out of me. Why would you think we would all be possessed? Even people who believe in possession don't think that would be true. As far as hospitals being haunted, in the first place, ghosts seem to like to hang out where they lived, nobody--not even people who believe in ghosts--really knows why. In the second place, maybe hospitals are haunted, but you just can't see, hear, or otherwise sense the ghosts. Some people are called "ESP-thick", which simply means that they can't sense the so-called supernatural. For example, let's say five people are in a room, and a ghost appears. Four people will see and hear the ghost, but the fifth won't see anything. Nobody really knows why, but an explanation given by psychics and parapsychologists that may be close to the truth likens the world of the supernatural to a radio broadcast, and the mind to a radio. Most people's minds are tuned to the right station, and can see the supernatural, but some people's minds aren't tuned to the right station, and can't see the supernatural.
Incidentally, I don't believe in ghosts and demons, and the like. I think people who see them are deluded, or crazy, or both, and ghosts and demons scare the hell out of me. I don't ever want to see one of them.

Answer 5

I'm a Christian so stick with me for the next minute. I'm going to explain this from a Biblical point of view just in case you're not Christian.

Demons can posses anyone. However, demons run at the name of Jesus Christ. If you are a TRUE Christian with God in your heart, they are not and cannot posses you. Here's a story for ya from the New Testement. A man was possesed by demons. Jesus was walking and the demons started crying out to Him not to hurt them. Demons fear Jesus.

Demons are real and they are out to get you.

Answer 6

even as a Christian receives Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit enters that Christian's body, soul and spirit. God has claimed that individual for His personal and subsequently, demons can not occupy an similar position because the Holy Spirit. devil is conscious this and for this reason he tries so not basic to get to human beings first and performance his demons or demonic impression administration or impression that individual. some circumstances of demoniacal possession contained in the Bible (Matt. 12:25-30; Mark 5:a million-20; Luke 4:35; 10:18) ^_^

Answer 7

We are all able to be possessed. And demons are very real. Many in the west don't traditionally speak of them but they exist. It is real, you can choose to believe what you want, but the Bible is ladden with those possessed. Spirits and what not exist in almost every religion on the planet. Hauntings are a different subject as you are speaking about spirits of mortals and not spirits of heavenly or demonic principalities.

Answer 8

Yes, people do believe in it very seriously. Some cultures explain that it is possession that makes people do horrible things like murder or cheat on their wives.

The Irish made up lephrechans for the same reason... I slept with that woman, because the little green man told me too.

Some Italian cultures believe that the evil eye causes babies to die and women to become infertile...

Well, how do you explain this? Other than human beings inability to fess up to doing something stupid.

Answer 9

Demonic posession and oppression IS more prevelant then you may realize.

Take a GOOD HARD LOOK! at the evil that is saturating our society, and tell me these people don't have some degree of demonic involvement...and even if they didn't? How on earth could you tell?

Answer 10

Been there, done that, live with it every single day.

Sucks being an empath, sometimes.

Also, spirits don't necessarily just get stuck in the same geographical location where they passed on.

Demonic possessions also have nothing to do with hauntings.

Answer 11

not everyperson that dies has the abilty to come back as a possessive spirit. demons are people who were malevolent on earth and die without finishing the evil acts that they had intended to carry out during their lives. angels (the spirits that allow for miracles to happen) are people who are good natured and who died before being able to change the world.

they do not come back to possess people necessarly...sometimes thats how it happens, but usually they are not looking to overtake someone else's life. they have their own agenda.