Do Christians generally classify paranormal activity as a chemical imbalance or demons?

Question

I asked a couple different people tonite what they thought and they both insisted that it was a chemical imbalance due to depression. Which I thought was rather surprising becasue I would have guessed to receive the other option as an answer.

What are your thoughts on what it is or that people have told you they believe it to be?

Answer 1

I just say that anything is possible. There are lots of things we don't have knowledge of I am sure even if some think they do. May God Bless U.

Answer 2

Alot of Christians think paranormal activity is caused by demons or dark sided entities. The fundamentalist Christian can not accept the concept that there may be ghosts flailing around not knowing where to go. Some will deny the possibility and grasp at demons because that assures them the bible is word for word infallible.

Answer 3

it can be both, people with a history of being abused or have a mental illness like scits or depression are more likely to think there is spirts or demons and any thing that bumps in the night, but not all christians beleven in the paranormal they only beleve in a god or jesus, and a heven.

Answer 4

There are more than two answers to that question. Most questions would most likely have more than two - even if you ask just one person (like me. lol). Some would choose chemical imbalance, others demons, most would probably come up with another answer.

Answer 5

i dont really know what it is, and with some people it surely is a brain imbalance, there are no deamons, thats so much bull, all the evil in the world is totally human, we dont need an outside force to make people nasty. but then im wiccan .

Answer 6

i'm a christian and i totally believe in ghosts and such, i have been seeing and hearing them since i was little.

Answer 7

I leave it to parapsychologists to submit their research to objective scientific study.

Answer 8

You cannot generalize Christian answers anymore than you can generalize races. We are all human with differing opinions. Most Charismatic Christians do believe in demons, where the more conservative denominations such as baptists don't even believe in the Holy Spirit, let alone evil spirits. So I can only give you my own personal beliefs which come from reading the Bible, personal experience, the experience of my sister, best friend and reading books by Christian authors who are active in deliverance ministries (kind of what a Catholic would refer to as an exorcism).

First off, the Bible refers to demons over and over. Jesus cast them out of people who were afflicted with illnesses, extremely violent men with super human strength to even break chains and a girl who was used as a fortune teller. So biblically speaking I can say that not only paranormal activity, but even "some" illnesses are caused by demons. I believe that not all illness is demonic. There are plenty of viruses, infections, and diseases that have absolutely nothing to do with demons, but in the Bible, there were people who Jesus healed by casting out demons.

My personal experience has to do with my sister,Diana. She's adopted, so we have different parents. She was very close to her grandfather who passed away. Before she came to live with my family, she used to go out to her garage where she could smell her grandfather's cologne. Then, she started hearing "his voice". So she started talking to him, or so she thought. And she brought her sister out to visit with "grandpa", too. For a while all was well, and talking to the spirit of what they thought was their dead grandfather brought them great comfort. Little by little, she started getting into witchcraft. Not Wicca, but the act of moving things with her mind, seeing visions of the future, palm reading, etc. At this time, she was only 12 yrs old, but she thought it was "cool" to be able to move things without toughing them. As time went on, she didn't have to go out to her garage to talk to her "grandfather" anymore. Then one day, he revealed to her that his name was Michael and not really her grandpa. He was a demon and had been impersonating her grandfather to gain her trust. Little by little, he revealed his true nature to her and her sister. He began to torment them and scare them constantly. To this day, over 25 years later, her sister is so afraid of him that she won't even say his name when she talks about him.

Anyway, Diana had many problems with her parents and couldn't live with either one of them, so she came to live with my family in 1984. One night, she was having a hard time channeling a vision, so she drug me into the back room where it was quiet. She asked me to hold her hands and close my eyes. We were like best friends, so I did what she asked. A few seconds later, I saw a horrible vision of a little girl burning up in a fire. It scared me half to death, so I dropped her hands and jumped back. When I told her what I saw, she explained to me that she was having trouble seeing the face of the little girl and needed my help to get a clearer picture. It ended up being her cousin. She called her mom the next morning only to find out that her aunts house burned to the ground and her cousin died in the fire.

A few months later, Diana went with me to our church's summer camp and accepted Jesus as her Savior. It took alot of prayer, but eventually all of her demons were gone, and Michael no longer torments her.

As for my best friend, she was bipolar, and after she got saved, she still had a real hard time with active sin in her life. It seemed that no matter how many Bible studies she did or how many times she went to church, she just couldn't seem to kick her bad habits and no amount of psychiactric drugs seemed to help. Finally, she met a young man who was part of a deliverance ministry. She agreed to go through the process and four hours later, the chaos that was running amuck in her mind was quiet for the first time in years. The thing is, she was raped by her half brother and forced to have an abortion as a 13yr old girl and the demons of her rapist needed to be removed.

There are many good books on demon possession. I recommend "Pigs in the Parlor" or "He Came to Set the Captives Free". They are both written by Christians and explain how demons can get into a person and how to get them out.

Not all paranormal activity is demonic, either. The Holy Spirit gives Christians spiritual gifts such as prophecy, wisdom, knowledge, healing etc. God is the originator of all things supernatural, everything else is just cheap imitaions.

Spiritual Gifts: Unity in Diversity
I Corinthians 12
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant: 2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led. 3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another lgifts of healings by the same Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

The New King James Version. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, 1996, c1982, S. 1 Co 12:1