I was reading King James last night and I am genuinely curious as to what other's think. On a layman's level, I'm not a theology expert, or a shrink. According to the gospel of St. Luke(chapter 4), Jesus was tempted by the devil for forty days, in which time the devil tempted him to throw himself off the pinnacle of the temple in Jerusalem. The devil constantly tempted him, until as Luke relayed Chapter 4-13 "And when the devil had ended all of the temptation, he departed from him for a season."
My uncle, who was a diagnosed schizophrenic ,once smoked a carton of cigarettes with the devil on a bridge. The "voices" attributed to mentally ill people, reflect similarly to the commanding and tempting conversationalists that Christ himself encountered and defied... for a season. The most influential person in history battled the devil himself later to be crucified for (many reasons) , as so many of us now suffer a similar fate as martyrs for the stigma attached to "mental illness".
2007-10-29 15:57:06 · 5 answers · asked by sarmirey 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Most of his followers sure need an anti-psychotic or a real good fat joint.
2007-10-29 16:06:09 · answer #1 · answered by inkgddss 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sure your uncle in his mind thinks he did and for all we know he may have but Jesus had all authority over the devil and we don't. Our authority over the devil is equivalent to our Faith in Jesus and Jesus said that if we had faith the size of a grain of mustard seed we could move a mountain. And of course we know Jesus died on a Cross to wash away our sins so that we might be made clean from sin and if we believe in Jesus we can spend eternity in Heaven. Mental illness runs in my family as well and all we can do is trust Jesus to help us make it thru this world and we do that by trusting in his word. He will never leave us nor forsake us.
2007-11-01 06:35:01 · answer #2 · answered by victor 7707 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no one can really say, since he's long gone. I was watching some History channel show on vampires last night, and it alluded to vampires and Jesus - rising from the dead, drinking blood, piercing the heart. As a person who went to Catholic school, I never put the two together, and I don't think Jesus was a vampire, but it was an interesting analogy
2007-10-29 16:05:23 · answer #3 · answered by Empress Jan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see your reasoning, but I haven't heard of any psychotic people being raised from the dead! I'm convinced that Jesus was truly the Son of God.
2007-10-29 16:24:34 · answer #4 · answered by Jade <>< 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I do think he would have benefited from an antipsychotic, if he ever even existed.
2007-10-30 10:46:53 · answer #5 · answered by JOANIE E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋