[Salvation]

**Evangelical: We Don’t Need Rite of Exorcism, Just Jesus**

Then why does the Bible relate stories of Jesus casting out demons.

He blessed the Apostles — the first priests — and that blessing continues down to the present day.

Yes, there are demons in this present world, make no mistake about it.

[thethirddegree]

there are demons in this present world, make no mistake about it.

They are certainly in the White House.

[slumber1]

Then why does the Bible relate stories of Jesus casting out demons.

Maybe you should read the article.

Mohler does not deny accounts in the New Testament that show clear and real cases of demonic possession. Jesus and the Apostle Paul liberated afflicted individuals, he noted.
But the evangelical leader pointed out that no rite of exorcism was performed in those cases and there was no notion of a priestly ministry of ordained exorcists. The only thing involved in casting out demons from an individual was "the name of Jesus and the proclamation of the Gospel."

[ConservativeDude]

I see you read the article very carefully before commenting....

[CynicalBear]

>>He blessed the Apostles — the first priests — and that blessing continues down to the present day.<< Actually there is a problem with that Salvation. At the Council of Trent the Roman Catholic Church put itself above the authority of Scripture which was very dangersous. The Apostles always refered to written Scripture as the ultimate authority for what they said.

At the last opening on the eighteenth of January, 1562, all hesitation was set aside: [Gaspar de Fosso] the Archbishop of Reggio made a speech in which he openly declared that tradition stood above Scripture. The authority of the church could therefore not be bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because the church had changed circumcision into baptism, Sabbath into Sunday, not by the command of Christ, but by its own authority. With this, to be sure, the last illusion was destroyed, and it was declared that tradition does not signify antiquity, but continual inspiration.

Source: Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, Kanon und Tradition ("Canon and Tradition") (Ludwigsburg: Druck and Verlag von Ferd. Riehm, 1859), p. 263. German.

It subsequently declared the ascension of Mary which is outside of Biblical truth.

If the Church does not revert to the total authority of Scripture I'm afraid they will continue down a wrong path.