??HELLO ???
Getting one’s exercise primarily from jumping to conclusions may be faithfully copying my mother’s chronic habit . . . however, I don’t recommend it.
1. We are NOT talking about DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS here! Sheesh!
2. We are talking, essentially, about a very generalized assessment/discernment about
A) Is this individual suffering from demonic influence beyond their personal ability to deal with it? It doesn’t matter whether it’s possession or oppression.
B) Is this individual also suffering from some essentially mental illness apart from whatever may or may not be going on vis a vis demonic influence?
C) Is this individual suffering essentially or mostly from a mental illness having more or less nothing to do with demonic influences?
That’s not very sophisticated in terms of DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS. Up thread you accused me of deflecting. Are all your mirrors shattered?
4. This was before I began my PhD program, toots. I had NO supervisory control or authority over any aspect of the church groups or functioning. I didn’t “LET” anything happen. Sheesh!
5. Does it take an elevator to get off your high horse?
I’m not the one pasting my credentials all over the internet.
I haven’t called you any names and calling me “Toots” simply indicates to me a number of things about you, the reference to your mother notwithstanding.
QUIX: “5. Does it take an elevator to get off your high horse?”
Let’s give that a “whoa.” I’ve been protecting patients for longer than you’ve practiced.
QUIX: “B) Is this individual also suffering from some essentially mental illness apart from whatever may or may not be going on vis a vis demonic influence?
You are still defending your original statement:
QUIX: ““Experienced pastors, deacons, elders and even laymen and women did quite well at discerning the difference between demon possession/oppression and mental illness”
A layman cannot distinguish with any degree of accuracy the pathology of a mentally ill patient.
~AND NEITHER CAN TEENAGE GIRLS WHICH IS THE CONTENTION OF THE ARTICLE POSTED.
Now you can reply, but I’m not taking any more time to debunk this.