I believe that demonic posessions are possible. I don't think they are common, but definitely a reality. Now this doesn't mean that some suspected cases are not explainable by mental problems. Remember that demonic posession does not always mean someone running around with their head spinning spitting up pea soup. The bible provides a few examples where demon posessed people actually seemed to be harmless like the woman who was fortelling the future, prior to Jesus apostles removing the demon.

I believe that demons manifest themseves in all shapes and sizes. I think that our (Western Liberal Americans) veiws of life have created a fear of the demonic side of religion. I think since most people are very uncomfortable witrh the topic, they tend to ignore it and minimize it.

yes. i believe in demonic possessions, but i haven't encountered one. It's written in scripture and I believe scripture is accurate and true.

Personally, I believe they are very real. The Bible gives some examples of people possessed or influenced by demons. From these examples we can find some symptoms of demonic influence and gain insight as to how a demon possesses someone. Here are some of the biblical passages: Matthew 9:32-33; 12:22; 17:18; Mark 5:1-20; 7:26-30; Luke 4:33-36; Luke 22:3; Acts 16:16-18. In some of these passages, the demon possession causes physical ailments such as inability to speak, epileptic symptoms, blindness, etc. In other cases, it causes the individual to do evil, Judas being the main example. In Acts 16:16-18, the spirit apparently gives a slave girl some ability to know things beyond her own learning. The demon-possessed man of the Gadarenes, who was possessed by a multitude of demons (Legion), had superhuman strength and lived naked among the tombstones. As can be seen from the above verses, there is a wide variety of possible symptoms of demon possession, such as a physical impairment that cannot be attributed to an actual physiological problem, a personality change such as depression or aggression, supernatural strength, immodesty, antisocial behavior, and perhaps the ability to share information that one has no natural way of knowing. However, it's important to note that nearly all, if not all, of these characteristics may have other explanations, so it is important not to label every depressed person or epileptic individual as demon-possessed. On the other hand, western cultures probably do not take satanic involvement in people’s lives seriously enough.

I think it's shameful that we're still having this conversation in modern times. There is still so much superstition and ignorance in the world. No wonder we can't solve problems like poverty or global warming -- we're essentially still in the Dark Ages in many ways.

I think people have demons the same as the have skeletons in their closet....I don't believe ghosts and goblins get inside your body and take over.

I believe that their are demonic spirits but like some religous groups or so-called christian automically will say all persons with mental disease are demons. In the bible it speaks of a man possessed by demons but the characterics described their do not fit all mental disorders. Some so-called religious people are still in the dark ages & just don't understand mental disease fully & even think it is impossible for this to be pass down in genes. If I am serious mental ill, my brother is , my father & his father were, doen't it stand to reason it was passed through genes like my diabetes.

Real but rare. If you are going to believe in God and His angels then you probably should believe in the fallen angels, demons. Catholics have been casting out demons ever since Jesus and the Apostles did it. Modern psychology says that most of the people who had demons cast out of them were probably miraculously cured from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses. But their cures were still miracles. The Catholic Church believes that real demonic possessions are rare but possible, so they keep a few exorcists around just in case. The Church has guidelines in place to take great care to exhaust psychological options before calling in an exorcist. Here is the Rite of Exorcism: http://www.catholic.org/prayers/prayer.php?p=683 Anglicanism, several Protestant denominations, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), Judaism, Hinduism, Scientology, and Islam also practice some kind of exorcism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 1673: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2chpt4.shtml#1673 You might also want to read the nonfiction book: "The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist" by Matt Baglio http://www.amazon.com/Rite-Making-Modern-Exorcist/dp/0385522703/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242187725&sr=8-1 With love in Christ.

Demonic posession is not possible without an inviting host.

I think they are real but i do not believe that demons go all Exorcist possesion. I think it would be a quiet more sinister possesion. Although that Emily Rose stuff was pretty freaky.

I believe it is real because my boyfriends eleven year old daughter had a demonic reaction and threw me off of her and I am grown woman so therefore I do believe in demonic possesions.

Mental thought process,I have not experienced anything like possession and I am a skeptic of it,it seems very old school to believe in something like this.