Possession.
From Nordan Symposia
Jesus: on Healing
Hyperlinks within each question leads to the dialogue.
Questions to Jesus
- "Master, though I am beginning to understand why you refuse to practice healing indiscriminately, I am still at a loss to understand why the loving Father in heaven permits so many of his children on earth to suffer so many afflictions."
- "What can you do for such affliction as this? Can you cast out devils ?"
- On Friday, December 30, while Jesus was away in the near-by hills with Peter, James, and John, the seventy messengers were arriving by couples, accompanied by numerous believers, at the Pella headquarters. When the seventy related how "even the devils were subject" to them, { ? ) they referred to the wonderful cures they had wrought in the cases of victims of nervous disorders. Nevertheless, there had been a few cases of real spirit possession relieved by these ministers, and referring to these,
Questions from Jesus
- "How can Satan cast out Satan? A kingdom divided against it-self cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, it is soon brought to desolation. Can a city withstand a siege if it is not united? If Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then shall his kingdom stand? But you should know that no one can enter into the house of a strong man and despoil his goods except he first overpower and bind that strong man. And so, if I by the power of Beelzebub out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out ?
