Casting out deamons
I am glad I didn’t encounter Pentecostalism until late into my Christian walk. What I might have made of it when I was psychotic I hate to think. I may have had a spiritual experience, found my self mobed in prayer and running in terror never to return. I can see what you are doing, and well; it’s weird but harmless, it makes for a much more entertaining service, but it is so disingenuous. I think miracles really do happen some times. I’m pretty sure I have experienced a few miracles and had a few very real deamons cast out.
When I was first admitted to Cowdy Ward, the psych ward at Royal Darwin Hospital, I had four fits. I first figured I was so frightened I literally chucked a wobbly. But any Christian seeing it would say four deamons manifested and left me.
My sleeping coming good seemed miraculous. For years I couldn’t get to sleep at night and couldn’t get up in the morning. I got plenty of sleep but not at the right time. I fixed a minor problem in 2004 in Cowdy Ward and my sleeping came good.
I had a split personality. It is kind of like an alcoholic blackout, except it could happen when I was completely sober, in fact that tended to be the case. I would go into this split personality state had have insane conversations where it seemed the other person was as psychotic as me. When I started working The Steps I realised I had to confront my father about the way he treated me in my youth. I was stewing in rage for a long time, I went to the garden shed and picked up the axe, put it down and went and had it out with him in a loud shouting session with all the ferocity of wanting to kill him. The split personality resolved and over the next few weeks I remembered and processed all the insane conversations. My car ran out of fuel on the way to the hospital. I stared walking and prayed for help. A Christian stoped and gave me a lift.
I see what is going on in Pentecostal churches and think “I suppose that is what could have been happening in biblical times; but I had some other ideas.” As for the claim it is compulsory; let’s check that passage: Mark 16:18. You need to be playing with snakes and drinking poison too, do you do that in you’re church? The oldest copies of Mark don’t have this passage, it seems to have been added later, possibly by a frustrated Pentecostal. If you want to do that, just so long as you don’t try to use it to replace modern medicine, fine do what works for you. But do’t tell me it’s compulsory, the explanation to the church in Corinth of how to run a service was a suggestion of how to get the madness under control, not a strict plan a service must be run by. And don’t tell me you’re prayer can replace my psychiatric medication, stick to theology leave medicine to the doctors and nurses.
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