 Christians and Demon Possession Part 2 You only say Christians can't have demons because you haven't experienced true spiritual warfare. Just wait until you have the experience I have. Maybe you only say that because you yourself need deliverance. I used to say arrogant things like that before the Holy Spirit corrected my deliverance doctrines. That was before I understood the difference between a stronghold, 2 Corinthians 10-4, and demonic possession. A stronghold is a deceptive thought pattern that eventually becomes a behavior pattern. We call that bondage. The devil doesn't need to possess you, to influence you, to get you to do what he wants. He just needs you to believe what he says. So often when a believer gets delivered from deceptive bondage, they mistake this for having been set free from possession. What they're experiencing is actually deliverance, not exorcism. Interpret experience through scripture, not scripture through experience. Does it really matter though what terminology we use so long as people are being set free? Follow for Part 3.