the whole town would think of stupid stories of how he was possesed and they would preach about how the devil is everywhere and that this man is proof. Things havent really changed, have they?
2006-11-26 14:42:04 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't know. I wasn't there. Were you? If not then how do you know?
2006-11-26 14:43:44 · answer #1 · answered by Consuming Fire 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What's life today in this world (2000 AD) got to do with what they thought about Rabies back in the dark ages?
Why are people so hung up with the past?
If there are people who still believe in evil spirits and stuff, let them. It's their choice.
Abusing a good man and his mother won't do you any good. You pretend to be smart but you are more interested in making a good man look bad just because your not sure how his mother got pregnant. Puhleez! You have a really backward outlook.
2006-11-26 14:56:48 · answer #2 · answered by WaterStrider 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just know, if a young girl ... lets just call her Mary had sex before marriage they would stone her to death.. therefore this young girl would have no choice but to make up some damn story about getting pregnant without sex from an angel and it being a holly man to save her and the baby's life ... and lo-and behold even a 1,000 years later people still buy this, what a bunch of idiots, opps sorry folks, i'll be politically correct, what a bunch of christians
2006-11-26 14:49:29 · answer #3 · answered by az_ zoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He/she would have had to be bitten by a rabid animal. Then fever, and eventually convulsions and an inability to drink, apathy and death could resemble possession, if the townspeople hadn't witnessed a mad dog in the street. Christians seem to be possessed with ideas about there being a devil, so that is their frame of reference. And since there is a profusion of Christians among us, things won't change much with their ways of thinking. js
2006-11-26 15:00:43 · answer #4 · answered by Judith S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
---Question---
Can people infected with rabies or any other sickness have the super human strength to 'snap chains apart' and break iron locks on their feet? (See MARK chapter 5)
frothing at the mouth may well be a simple sickness, but demon afflicted people did, and still do exist.
I promise you, i have seen it in real life with my own eyes, it ain't pretty, and it can be far worse than any illness.
P.s I don't lie about this type of thing.
Cool, keep asking the tough questions though.
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2006-11-26 15:04:33 · answer #5 · answered by Dr. Phil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be serious, how can you ask a question like that????? Real Christians don't go around looking at people with health problems and blame it all on an evil spirit possessing a person. Evil does do harm to everyone it can but we don't assume it is an evil spirit that is the cause.
2006-11-26 14:46:59 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hello.
Yes, back in the day, that's precisely what would have happened.
But in modern-day civilization, we understand rabies now.
So that wouldn't happen these days.
Unless it's happening in more under-educated countries.
Not too sure what's happening down there..
2006-11-26 14:45:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I imagine so, although I don't know for sure.. I think there was more superstitions then ... More religious crap, judgments etc. Look, they burned people alive in the name of righteousness ... It was holy hate...Want to go there again???? Not I..
2006-11-26 14:54:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they would, and no they haven't... people still believe stupid things out of ignorance.
2006-11-26 14:43:44 · answer #9 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no, things haven't really changed.
2006-11-26 14:46:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rabies would not give superhuman strength or knowledge of things otherwise unknown, now would they?
2006-11-26 14:44:40 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋