What Are Demons Actually Like? | New Testament | Mark 5

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

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Are demons real? Does the Bible confuse evil forces with mental illness? How do demons work? Should you be afraid? In today's episode, Patrick answers all this and more as he walks through Mark 5. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Join the TMBT community in reading the entire New Testament in one year. Get your FREE reading plan here. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter@TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Mark 5

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.
0:05.0	Where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.0	I'm Patrick Miller.
0:16.8	A few years back a Yale trained researcher and author and professor and practitioner of psychiatry named Dr. Richard Gallagher
0:21.5	made quite the splash in the mental health community.
0:24.9	He wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post explaining how evidence from over 30 years of
0:30.0	psychiatric practice had led him to believe in unseen evil, the demonic.
0:36.3	His article begins with a story of a patient he met in 1980 who could tell people their
0:40.9	secret weaknesses. She had never met him, but she described in detail
0:44.9	how his mother died painfully from cancer.
0:47.7	And this wasn't his last experience like that.
0:50.5	It led him to ask a question in the Washington Post.
0:53.0	Quote,
0:54.0	Is it possible to be a sophisticated psychiatrist
0:57.0	and believe that evil spirits are, however seldom, assailing humans?
1:02.0	Most of my scientific colleagues and friends would say no, but careful
1:05.8	observation of the evidence presented to me in my career has led me to believe that certain
1:11.3	extremely uncommon cases can be explained in no other way.
1:16.3	His point is clear.
1:17.6	He knows mental illnesses and he has seen things which are not mental illnesses, which are after his careful observation
1:24.6	nothing less than unseen evil. Personally I identify with Dr. Gallagher's critics.
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