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Originally Posted by kerry
Let's imagine a Spirit-led psychiatrist. How does that psychiatrist isolate the specific demon/germ and identify it as a the cause? How is it differentiated from an environmental cause or a malfunction in brain chemistry.
I've been present at a few exorcisms in my day and never saw anyone attempt to make the differentiation. Do Spirit-led psychiatrists actually attempt to differentiate different possible causes?
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Kerry,
Is it possible that demons, and what modern science might call "illnesses" are really the same with one laid over top of the other, so to speak?
I'm thinking of a story from the OT, ( and alcohol and fatigue are clouding my memory) where The people of Israel were fighting an enemy ( Amalekites?). There was a real battle going on in the valley between men armed with real weapons, inflicting real wounds. But up on the mountain was Moses and some assistants. When Moses help his hands up toward God, Israel prevailed, but when he let his arms down, the enemy prevailed. When Moses became too tired to hold up his arms, the others made props to hold up his arms and Israel prevailed.
Same sort of thing when God was giving Moses the directions to build the Tabernacle, and he was told to make it like the one he had seen in heaven.
Is it possible that our reality here mirrors a reality somewhere else? Both "realities" are "real".