Hi all,
being new to these forums, and not a native English speaker, I must ask all of you to have some patience with me. Also, I'm sorry if this topic has already been discussed at greater length (in that case a link would be nice)..
In the gospels we read, that men are more or less regularly beset by demons (e.g. Mark 5-1..14) and that Jesus drives them out of the victims' bodies. What is the current explanation by bible literists that this doesn't happen nowadays.
What I mean is, that nowadays we know that diseases are caused by bacteria, viri etc.; We have accepted that a medical condition is not caused by demons or spirits inhabiting one's body.
Especially, I would like to point out Luke(38ff.):
"38 And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.
39 And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.
40 And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not.
41 And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.
42 And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father."
where the condition the child is suffering from is (to my opinion) epilepsy, which has nothing to do with "unclean spirits" possessing anyone's body.
So the question is, why can people accept antibiotics from their doctor and cannot at the same time accept evolution by Darwin et al.?
regards,
Alex