Houston physician and pastor Stella Immanuel – described as “
spectacular” by Donald Trump for her
promotion of unsubstantiated claims about anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a “cure” for COVID-19 – has some other, very unconventional
views.
As well as believing that scientists are working on a vaccine to make people less religious and that the U.S. government is run by reptilian creatures, Immanuel, the leader of a Christian ministry called
Fire Power Ministries,
also believes sex with demons causes miscarriages, impotence, cysts and endometriosis, among other maladies.
It has opened her up to much
ridicule. But, as a
scholar of early Christianity, I am aware that the belief that demons – or fallen angels – regularly have sex with humans runs deep in the Jewish and Christian traditions.
Stella Immanuel, who made headlines recently regarding a false coronavirus cure claim, has many beliefs related to how demons are a threat to humans. An expert explains their long religious history.
theconversation.com
It's an interesting article. Does anyone here believe that demons have sex with humans?
In the case of the African doctor who I GUESS is now in Houston, those quotes were taken out of her work IN AFRICA.. Where if you tell a lady that her husband's sperm is DEFECTIVE and caused a tumor -- she might not even understand what a tumor is... And she'd HATE her husband for "infecting her"..,.
So how does a competent doctor DEAL with uneducated maybe barely conversant because of regional language? You invent things they will understand that don't require you telling about their husband's defective sperm.. Like demon sperm. Don't know WHY intelligent people can't deal with this.. Maybe they should go volunteer in Africa...
As for religious views -- NO MODERN Judaic Christian congregation outside of the radical crazies have to DEAL with biblical or historical concepts that were invented BEFORE MEDICINE and most of science.. Not really gonna find a smoking gun here.. Except for maybe
fncceo 's ex-wife...
She has lived in the States since 1992. There are a whole lot of people that believe in witchcraft and demonology in Africa. It's a problem. That's how some people wind up dead. The village decides you are possessed, a demon, whatever and kills you. It makes sense that she would explain that to people in ways that others understand. It also makes sense that she would be a firm believer in Pentecostal demonology.
She may very well believe that there is a war that is going on between good and evil. That's ok, too. She has a blog that contains an entry for breaking curses. In fact, there are a lot of people in the US that believe that there is a supernatural war that is taking place behind the scenes between good and evil and that you and I are not privy to all of those details. We just have enough information to get by and the name of the game is to stay out of the way. That's ok, too.
I live in the buckle of the Bible belt and there are six of one and half a dozen of the other. People's beliefs run the spectrum.
She is not as interesting as the rest of the article.
There are even more people that believe the references in the Tanakh, the Christian Bible and in the Dead Sea Scrolls are all stories that have lessons in them. It's not to be taken literally.
The book of Enoch, which is referenced and linked to in text is here:
The Wesley Center Online: Book Of Enoch
AND, as the article points out, Enoch is mentioned in Genesis:
gen 5:21-24
When Enoch had lived for sixty-five years, he became the father of Methuselah. Enoch walked with God after the birth of Methuselah for three hundred years, and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him.
Not mentioned in the article but something I repeatedly have questioned is : 26 Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness;
Who is us?
So where are you, if at all, on the spectrum?
