Grand Mal Epilepsy: True Cause is Demons?

Mark 9:14-32

The Word of God is inerrant and it says that the true cause of Grand Mal Epilepsy (Associated Content) is demon possession.  But it is a very special case of demon possession, only prayer will cure it!  This section of Mark starts when a man whose son has grand mal epilepsy comes to Jesus’ disciples.  An argument breaks out as Jesus returns from the mountain top.  His disciples haven’t quite got the hang of things yet and were not able to heal the man’s son.

Jesus immediately goes into a tirade:

Mark 9:19 “O unbelieving generation,” Jesus replied, “How long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you?  Bring the boy to me.”

I guess his human half was just weary.  How could a loving savior treat a man who has come to him for help so cruelly?  If the man was truly unbelieving he would not have come.  But Jesus is also grumpy with his disciples for not properly driving out the demon.  Jesus is obviously forgetting that it is YHWH who is to blame for their slow learning.  In the Gospel of Luke this is clearly pointed out (same story):

Luke 9:45 But they did not understand what this meant.  It was hidden from them, so that they did not grasp it, and they were afraid to ask him about it.

The use of the word “hidden” means that someone has kept the meaning from them.  You can argue that it was Satan…but Jesus was right there and YHWH should have seen it too.  Neither Jesus nor YHWH clarified the issue for the disciples.  Oddly, the disciples were afraid to ask Jesus.  Here you can argue the pride issue, or let me present another scenario, maybe they really were afraid of Jesus’ response.  Twice now, in the Gospel of Mark (alone) Jesus has snapped at his disciples for YHWH making them slow to learn.  Isn’t it possible that Jesus was in the habit of berating his disciples, I have pointed out in other places that Jesus was not the loving savior that “Christian” want him to be.

But I wanted to go back to the Grand Mal seizures, how do we know the boy was cured.  So he stopped having a seizure….so what!  Some children (epilepsy.com) with grand mal seizures can go for long periods without repeat. It is also humorous that Hippocrates suggested that seizures might not be demon possession in 400BC.  But of course we know that demons cause seizures now, isn’t modern medical prayer wonderful!  Modern medical prayer will cure anything, you just have to have faith.

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