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Originally Posted by DrumNFeather
The speaker began his talk with the 7 Demons reference...never gave any info on where it came from or background for the congregation. I guess he assumed we all knew what he was talking about.
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I was referring to this:
"He then proceeded to talk about the 7 Demons that overtook mary during the time of the crucifixion and ressurection of Jesus. The culmination of this and the ridding of the Demons was when Jesus found Mary at the seplecure and we know the famous lines of scripture that follow. "
as the inaccurate part. The scriptures make a vague reference to Mary Magdalene in Luke 8:2 as one who was possessed of devils.
Luke 8:2 And certain women, which had been healed of evil
spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went
seven devils,
Then another reference in Mark at the sepulcher.
Mark 16:9 Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the
week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had
cast seven devils.
My understanding (which may be off because it has come in the last hour searching on this because it's interesting to me) is that these are the only two references to Mary's seven demons, and that they were healed/exorcised much earlier and were not present and had nothing to do with the crucifixion. That inaccuracy was what led to the acrophya reference.