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“Turn their gaze away from Him & toward themselves. Keep them watching their own minds & trying to produce *feelings* there by the action of their own wills...” —(The demon Screwtape on how to misdirect a person’s prayers) C.S. Lewis
“When they meant to ask Him for charity, let them instead start trying to manufacture charitable feelings for themselves. When they meant to pray for courage, let them really be trying to feel brave...” #Lewis #Screwtape
“When they say they are praying for forgiveness, let them be trying to feel forgiven. Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling...” #Lewis #Screwtape
THREAD: on demon possession
The term ‘demon-possessed’ is common in modern Bible translations (eg ESV, HCSB, NIV, NKJV at Matt 8:28) & has become a standard phrase.
It conveys to people that 1 or more demons possess a person.
That’s the problem. We’ll see there’s been a shift.
The term ‘demon-possessed’ is common in modern Bible translations (eg ESV, HCSB, NIV, NKJV at Matt 8:28) & has become a standard phrase.
It conveys to people that 1 or more demons possess a person.
That’s the problem. We’ll see there’s been a shift.
The Greek is usually a single verb daimonizomai, which we might literalistically render as ‘be demonized’.
But earlier translations tended to express that the person had the demon, not the demon, the person.
But earlier translations tended to express that the person had the demon, not the demon, the person.
The #LindisfarneGospels give us beautiful Latin with Anglo-Saxon glosses above.
Here’s Matthew 4:24: Latin et qui daemonia habebant ‘and whoever had demons’.
You can probably make out the words ‘devil’ & ‘have’ in the Anglo-Saxon.
So the people have the devils, not vice versa.
Here’s Matthew 4:24: Latin et qui daemonia habebant ‘and whoever had demons’.
You can probably make out the words ‘devil’ & ‘have’ in the Anglo-Saxon.
So the people have the devils, not vice versa.
