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This topic is an important one and not a topic to leave to speculation, especially today when spiritual and evil forces are often being discussed in significant ways by public figures, even high-profile ones like Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson. It is also a heavy topic that requires seriousness and concentration in what you are about to read. Let’s examine the Word of God to discover 10 principles that can guide us as we seek to understand how demons operate.
In approaching the topic of demons and how they function, I’d like to clarify upfront that I personally take a posture often described as “seeking, but discerning” (for how this works on topics like miraculous spiritual gifts, click here). I arrived at this approach after many years of seeking a fair-minded exploration of this topic, especially as it relates to how we as Christians should respond to spiritual warfare and demonic influence.
I was trained in both undergraduate and graduate theological environments to believe that miraculous gifts became less and less prominent throughout the history of the church, after the apostles. A case can be made for that general belief, but, the more I researched, the more I realized one cannot make a valid historical argument that once the apostles died, exorcisms and dealing with the demonic subsided. As we will see below, exorcism was a common practice in the early church after the apostles.
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