I’ve been through this extensively.
A born-again Christian has Jesus in his heart and is a child of God. I don’t believe a born-again Christian can be demon possessed because the presence of Christ by the Holy Spirit in his life and spirit expels any demon.
However, a Christian can still be oppressed by the devil usually because he is believing lies from which he needs to be set free.
Anyone can have a demon. They are immortal and outnumber all the humans on earth and every other planet in the universe.
A true believer in Christ cannot be possessed. Now I would say many non-believers including FR non-believers who are lost and without Salvation most likely are possessed in some form or fashion.
That’s a meaningless phrase that has recently been concocted by charismatics who are always seeking “power” to do things that the Bible doesn’t grant them. Neither that phrase nor that concept exist anywhere in scripture. It’s been devised as an end run around the fact that Christians clearly cannot be possessed by demons.
The phrase is also in vogue with some of the hyper-charismatic preachers who fancy themselves present-day “prophets” or even “apostles”, claiming to wield power that only the true apostles possessed for a time (limited to twelve men who knew Jesus in the flesh and followed him). This “having a demon” nonsense has been invented by them to give them an excuse to “cast demons” out of Christians, while still claiming they adhere to the teaching that Christians can’t be possessed.
from the comments I’m reading, it’s clear that no one has actually read the article. Kinda’ like Facebook.
You read it here first: Just like the devil can take over an Ouija Board, demons can gain control of large language models implemented on neural networks. This is how surprising and poorly understood instances of novel intelligent behavior are occurring.
And mdmathis6 added:
"Ghosts in the machine".
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Christians can give the enemy and demons a foothold in their lives through unforgiveness and sin in their lives.
Forgiving others and repenting of sin is a great way to close the door to any opportunity those would give the enemy to try to influence us.
I do not believe a Christian can be possessed but that they can be oppressed by the lies the enemy speaks to them or through attacks on them through others.
Staying in the word and in prayer is critical.
Satan has been crushed:
https://prophecyquestions.com/the-devil-made-me-do-it-the-crushing-of-satan/