Demons and Disease

Do you know someone who has a bad back and can't straighten up? I don't mean to sound alarming but that person could be possessed by a demon! If you are a Bible believer you might want to take note of the following passage:

"...and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all". Luke 13:11

Perhaps I shouldn’t be turning my back on uncle Frank anytime soon :)

Demons were also the cause of deafness, muteness, blindness and epilepsy. (Matthew 9:32, 12:22, 17:15) How many of us today believe demons are the cause of such ailments? After the physiotherapist fails, should we head straight for the exorcist?

It was interesting looking up the original word for epileptic in the Zondervan Greek Dictionary:

seleniazomai; to be moon struck, spec. epileptic (supposedly influenced by the moon): epileptics(1), lunatic(1)

These were an ignorant, superstitious people and their writings confirm it. As our medical science increases and the unexplainable becomes explained, our dependence on the spirit world becomes less and less.