Do We Have a Demon in Our Lives?

In the ancient world, people recognized that mental illness was not always due to demons. People suffering extreme mental illness, or madmen, were recognized as a distinct class of people and were not identical with demoniacs. In act 16, saint paul and his party have an interesting encounter in the macedonian city of philippi where they are met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination. But she was apparently doing this in an annoying way, and eventually paul drove the spirit out of her. The passage shows us that sometimes demons will give people preternatural knowledge of things, but the causal error doesn't go the other way. They also can cause physical