Can a Christian have a demon influencing them?

Truth hurts!

 

And the biggest personality limitation is not worshipping the sky fairy

 

Whack!

 

Not the sky fairy, your Creator - unless you thought you were dug out of dirt? But then again, even Creators make mistakes, which He usually remedies by releasing them back into their own muck.

GOOD BYE!​

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I saw that look in the eyes of a Muslim client spouting Jihadist propaganda, before 9/11.

Christians can be oppressed by demons, but not possessed.

 

They are the lukewarm church as in Laodicea. Many will be told on Judegment Day "Depart from Me, I never knew you". Even one of Jesus' hand picked disciples wasn't really a follower.

 

A Christian will never invite a demon in so they can do malice to another, or to gain something, but I have read accounts where a demon entered a child through a curse. These are the ones that need to be exorcized.

 

I'm Greek Orthodox, and the story that intrigues me is one about Saint Nektarios when he tried to exorcize a young girl who had been cursed.. He was having a hard time, so he told the demon that he was very powerful. The demon said that there are 3 of them. One is in charge of Russia, and the other is in China.

The year was1917, so I checked to see if it was the year Lenin took over, and it was. As for the one in China, it was probably about that time that it entered Mao Tse Tsung. And as for the girl, Saint Nektarios did free her and I'm going to assume the demon entered Kemal Attaturk - otherwise why would such a powerful demon be in Greece? Five years later, all the Christians in Anatolia/Turkey were either killed or forced to leave by Attaturk's army. Two and a half million ended up as refugees in Greece.