The story of the seven sons of sceva that we talked about in class on Friday seems almost like a comical exorcist movie, but I feel that as Dr. Foster put it, the fact that the demons recognized the authority of Paul and of Jesus reinforced how valid Paul and his telling of the Gospel was. I have never really thought about it like that before because I have always just seen this story as a funny one of these guys trying to play ghostbusters/demon exorcisors and getting a beating and running with their tails tucked between their legs. After further study however you can plainly see that the demons admitted that Jesus had autority as well as Paul and that strengthened Paul's evangelistic effort in my view. This was just a much more serious view than I had ever taken on this story and it makes alot of sense.
Peace...Ira
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