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Friday, 06 November, 2009
Devil Is Afraid Of You
(with comments)
This just in. An exorcist says: The devil is afraid of you.
Mgr John Esseff, retired exorcist of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania, told an audience of 400 students at Bowling Green State University, Ohio that the power of Jesus within them was "enormous".
He said: "The devil is afraid of you - if you would just awaken to who you are."
Mgr Esseff said that each baptised person was united to Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit. He read passages from the Gospels in which Jesus exorcised demons and then sent his disciples to do the same.
He said that Jesus ultimately defeated Satan through his death and Resurrection and then sent the power of the Holy Spirit to his Apostles at Pentecost.
"When God looks down, he sees Jesus in you," Mgr Esseff said. "Your soul is a battlefield because there is also someone who hates you," he said. "That one is the devil."
It's amazing how people just make stuff up. Even more amazing is the fact that others believe them.
- By wormpicker. Comment posted 06-Nov-2009 @07:33am:Sounds a lot like the ruby slippers and the Wicked Witch of the West.
- By wally the duck. Comment posted 06-Nov-2009 @08:46am:Lots and lots of people make stuff up. The sane ones call themselves authors or writers and understand what they are doing.
- By Gee.... Comment posted 06-Nov-2009 @09:00am:I remember when I was a Baptist we were told, very seriously, that demons and the devil can not hurt you, they can only scare you into hurting yourself. Now I look back and think wow, those were grown people, adults, with kids and stuff, and they believed that stuff.
~shakes head and sighs~ - By Shel-tone. Comment posted 06-Nov-2009 @09:24am:
- By Don Coyote. Comment posted 06-Nov-2009 @11:05am:
- By . Comment posted 06-Nov-2009 @11:08am:(Off-topic comments were deleted)
- By Don Coyote. Comment posted 06-Nov-2009 @11:27am:(Isn't that kind of off-topic? I lost my train of thought and had to read the comments all over again.)
- By ElMoney. Comment posted 06-Nov-2009 @12:16pm:The devil is afraid of me -- as he should be!
- By . Comment posted 06-Nov-2009 @12:19pm:Jwalk censored me. No fun.
- By banjo brad. Comment posted 06-Nov-2009 @12:20pm:
...Jesus ultimately defeated Satan...
Doesn't that mean the Devil no longer has any power? An ultimate defeat should have been the final defeat.