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From: D2MG@SDSUMUS (Kurt Evans)
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Subject: Miscellaneous
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Date: 13 Jan 90 05:13:33 GMT
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     There are several messages I've been waiting for someone else
to respond to, but since no one did, I guess I've got to do the tough
job of trying to correct in the Spirit of love.

In response to queue ball:
     You are indeed correct that demons can only be *cast out* by the
Lord Jesus Christ.  However, Satan sometimes allows us to manipulate
his demons to give the false appearance of "casting out."  I have heard
of Roman Catholic exorcisms in which the demoniac died.  I must assume
that these exorcisms were not attempted through Jesus' power.

In response to Keith Gatling:
     "Why is cursing intrinsically wrong?"  Ephesians 4:29 says, "Let
no evil talk come out of your mouths, but *only such as is good for
edifying*, as fits the occasion, that it may impart grace to those who
hear."

In response to Deb Hawley:
     "Jesus did not say, 'You must not be a Christian!'"  True, but
He *did* say, "You are of your father the devil" (John 8:44).

In response to Jim McIntosh:
     "Weren't cave people doing the will of God when they attempted to
understand their reality by finding God in wood spirits and weather
phenomenon?"  A literal interpretation of Genesis makes short work of
this apparent dilemma.  Cave people are pure mythology.  If all are
descendants of Adam, at some point a decision was made to forget the
true God humanity originally knew.
                                       For Jesus' glory,
                                       Kurt