Q. What do you think about the slave girl who was able to foretell the future? The easy answer is that she had some form of mental illness, but this doesn’t seem to fit with the way it reads given that her owners were able to make profit from her illness… it seems to be [...]
Answers about unclean spirits
See also What is the difference between “unclean spirit” and “demon”? Why does OT and NT teaching on demons appear to differ? It is undeniable that there is a difference between the way the OT and NT describe illness and disability: Exodus 4:11 Then the Lord said to [Moses], “Who has made man’s mouth? Who [...]
New Testament In the NT there is no substantial difference. Sometimes “unclean spirit” and “demon” occur in the same account, or in parallel accounts between the synoptic Gospel writers: Luke 8:29 For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept [...]
