Silencing about the challenging matters does not solve the issue. The topic of demons needs not to be an issue of a specialized few, but a matter that concerns all Christians. The emphasis on delivering Christians from demons is a vicious circle that praises the demons’ power, and advocates expert exorcists. By focusing on demons the church and the ministers are creating more problems – even demons – than solving them. iToday’s deliverance ministry has proven that it is too easy to buy into the devil’s lie that he is more powerful than what he truly is. However, deliverance should be more in line with the practice of the early Christians who saw the need for renouncing the devil, and who performed exorcism only to unbelievers. Only in few cases deliverance might be needed when the Christian has unprocessed occult issues in his past. The spiritual warfare is not an active attack against the demons, but a disciplined and Holy Spirit empowered attack against own sinful tendencies, and discernment and resistance to the surrounding worldly values. The epistles speak about outward demonic influence seen in moral choices and church life rather than about a danger of being possessed or demonized. By this they promote undeserved attention on demons, cause fear and doubt in Christians, demonize common phenomena, market frequent exorcisms, and imply that normal Christian life is not enough in order to be truly free. The later proponents avoid the terminology of possession, and refer either to “having demons in” or “being demonized.” The latter is an attempt to dodge the nuance of ownership, and suggests that having demons as Christians is quite normal, though not desired state. Few hold that some sort of possession might be possible, while some are cautious towards all teaching about demons and point back to the 70’s problems. The study shows that vast majority of the EFCF pastors do not believe in the demon-possession of believers, but rather speak about influence, often times in varying degrees. Though the interest waned, many beliefs persisted. Nousiainen’s more theoretical book together with Basham’s intriguing stories fueled the interest, and supported unhealthy practices. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.This thesis investigates demon-possession of Christians and relating issues in the Evangelical Free Church of Finland (EFCF) since the 1970s. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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