When Jesus moves to his separation from John the Baptist as a preacher and healer from Galilee, his family will take him by force to return home, "for they said, He is beside himself." (Mk3, 21). On the part of his opponents must listen to Jesus repeated the accusation that he was possessed by an evil spirit or the spirit of another of God (Jn 8,48.53). One can assume that both meet the setting of his family and the accusations of his opponents, historical facts. For it shows Jesus and his relatives with restrictions in any favorable light, have been inserted so little later by his admirers in his biography.
is undisputed today that Jesus worked with success as an exorcist was that it so people who stood in its sole and foreign judgments under the influence of foreign powers, I could heal from their possession. Possession is a generally recognized phenomenon in traditional societies. Jesus as an exorcist was no exception, as can be seen from the armed talks about his own alleged possession (Mt 12, 22-37par).
It should also be careful to try to straighten this phenomenon with hasty explanations of modern central European and Anglo-Saxon psychiatry. There are also in modern psychiatry, at least indications that oppose so-called obsession phenomena of integration into the catalog of known psychiatric disorders, such as by not responding to approved treatments with the antipsychotic drugs.
embedded Jesus lived as a Jew in the religious beliefs of its environment. This included the belief that reality was coined in its visible as well as in their invisible dimensions of a struggle between good and evil forces. The world was 'inspired' by a number of immaterial 'beings' good spirits or angels on one side and evil spirits or demons on the other side. The good forces, the angels were under the rule of God, the evil, the demons, the devil. The struggle between God and Satan certain world events in general.
Jesus' consciousness was strongly influenced by this archaic notion. A personal mystical experience he seems to believe have brought to this fight that God in heaven, beyond those intangible dimension of reality, had already decided for themselves. This' enlightenment 'is expressed in Jesus' words: "I saw Satan fall like lightning to the earth" (Luke 10:18).
This connects to Jesus, the conviction that God in his person, carried this battle with Satan to the earth. Jesus experienced as the spirit or demon of God 'inspired'. In Jesus' person God himself takes up the fight with the evil spirits on earth. So it is logical that the only in Mark's Gospel, the demons, recognize the really know who Jesus really is (Mark 1.34 b). This may be a theological interpretation of the author of Mark's Gospel, but they should certainly have their justification in self-understanding of Jesus. The Spirit of God, which Jesus, we must say, 'possessed' is surrounding him with an aura of invulnerability. "His angels came and ministered to him" (Mt 4.11 par) states in the report about Jesus' desert experience with Satan.
One can imagine that this experience of Jesus, to have got the power of the Spirit of God transmit power over the demons, also had a dark side. The talent with the demon god would have been a more memorable experience for Jesus when they simultaneously had meant liberation from the 'obsession' with a dark demon. Whatever you think of this will, it is some indication that Jesus once was a man possessed himself. The related allegation of his enemies (Mt 12, 22-37par) points out. After all exorcists in Jesus 'environment no exception and they were against this accusation seems to have Jesus' own words to be judged.
Perhaps Jesus had found in his Baptist exorcists. We would then have in Jesus something of a "healed healer" in front of us, a man of the liberation from demonic bondage, which he saw in himself, can pass on to others. The Gospels at least give evidence that it had been. Mark, Matthew and Luke consistently report that Jesus had after his baptism, an encounter with Satan. Mark, from which the other two evangelists are subject brings the shortest but also most telling version: "Then the Spirit drove Jesus into the desert. Jesus stayed there for forty days and was tempted by Satan. He lived among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him. "(Mark 1:12-13). Two things about this report is of interest. The "Spirit drove Jesus into the desert. Markus has previously reported that Jesus, as he rose after a successful baptismal bath from the water, saw that "the heavens opened and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him "(Mk 1:10).
Man this image may first simply consider a theological metaphor that Jesus was equipped similar to his baptism as other men of God before him with the power of God. We need not decide whether a vision of Jesus, was aware of the Mark, the background of his narrative forms, or whether it is mere interpretation in retrospect. If you read this text, but in conjunction with the following, quoted above, then my mind-this gift of Jesus seems to be more than a subsequently attached theological interpretation of speech and action, Jesus.
The "Spirit" drove "Jesus in the desert. Here is conveyed in very strong words, the impression that Jesus was compelled by a force to an action to "outside" took effect on him. With all due caution, one could speak of an ego-alien pulse that Jesus led to an action which was not initiated by him and controlled. Jesus was, in the traditional terminology consistently, indeed, by the "spirit" possessed ".
with a concept of modern consciousness research would say that Jesus was in an altered state of consciousness. The theory of altered states of consciousness assumes that a whole range of different states of consciousness There. Our everyday consciousness with which we can find our way during most of the time in the world, is just one of those states. There are also known to all, the state in which we produce about dreams during sleep, but also day dreaming is a state that stands out from the everyday consciousness. Trance and ecstasy, even exotic, further. Demonic "possession" as well as others that the person concerned or by observers as strange, I experienced both states can be classified somewhere on the scale of altered states of consciousness.
The opinion today among those concerned with research on Jesus, more than just an outsider, that Jesus had in fact access to altered states of consciousness and that his work as a healer and exorcist just was linked (see J. Pilch, events of an altered state of consciousness in the Synoptics, in: W. Stegemann and others, Jesus in new contexts, Stuttgart 2002 , p.33 (For further reading there)). Jesus' desert experience I interpret in close connection with his above-mentioned vision: "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven to earth." (Luke 10:18). Following Mark's text, then Jesus in the desert a confrontation with Satan. Matthew and Luke to paint the story more, and set a course different, but in essence they describe the same. In Mark find various events held at the same time, Jesus is tempted by Satan. He lives with the wild animals. The angels serve him. All this for forty days! Satan exerts its power. Jesus is alive but with the wild animals, an allusion to Isaiah 11, 6-8, where the peace is depicted among the animals as a sign of quality for the end time, and the angels to serve him (Ps 91.11 to 13). Jesus is lifted in a divine shelter, although still in the active power of Satan can not hurt him (See Martin Eber, Jesus of Nazareth in his time. Stuttgart 2003. P.102).
covers this with Jesus' vision. The power of Satan is broken in principle, he is from heaven expelled. Jesus finds himself as immune to the still ongoing satanic propaganda here in the earth. It is protected by the Spirit of God, which was awarded to him. This is - I say - a new experience that Jesus makes. She would have little weight, if Jesus had not previously made the opposite experience: that he was a victim of satanic machinations. I see this as an indication that Jesus was even before his encounter with John experiences with altered states of consciousness, but this concept at the time as influenced by satanic forces. The "wilderness experience" is Jesus in the state, from now on as "healed healer" People in similar situations to get rid of demonic forces.
Jesus is a "God-obsessed, the Spirit of Adonai has taken possession of him. This is where we Jesus, her intimacy with God, whom he calls his now ABBA. He makes a clear distinction between "my father" and "your father". Jesus stands with the world of the Holy name and one must assume this means, with its bright as with its darker side. Thus Jesus stands alongside with other great figures of Jewish and Jewish tradition. With Miriam, who is later demoted to the sister of Moses, but in reality a large Profetin from the early days of Israel was with Moses himself, who was also a God-possessed, with Elijah and Elisha, the great and terrible prophets from the north of Israel, as Jesus also known as a miracle worker. But from the time of early Judaism, the turning point, know what these men of action, as they were called, Rabbi ben Dosa and Honi the Rainmaker, and not to forget, John, the master Jesus.
It was probably not so much the preaching of Jesus, which gave him his followers. By mere words and catchy stories would be a simple country people, and she was probably Jesus' principal ROYAL audience can not impress you, much less the fringes, the Sick, sinners, women, that Jesus was interested above all. What struck people with Jesus in Bann, was his obvious connection with the dimension of the saint and his ability to make this dimension appear in everyday reality. Whatever one may think of the reported healings and exorcisms him in detail that Jesus had a reputation as a healer and exorcist is undisputed. One argument for this is not least the reaction of his opponents, one has to look around among the village elders. Their opposition was sparked not so much of what Jesus said. The most severe criticism provoked what he did.
can not last, the apparently soon explain after Jesus' death onset veneration of his person the best way that he was already in his lifetime was known as a man standing in a unique connection with the divine.
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