Is it rare for people to have a need for a demon to be cast out?

Summary:

It is not rare for people to have a need for a demon to be cast out.

It is important to have accurate expectations regarding this topic, so as to come to an accurate conclusion.

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Casting out demons could happen often in the Bible:

In the Bible, casting out demons could happen often. This would suggest that it may NOT have been rare that people had a need for a demon to be cast out of them.

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Casting out demons - could happen often in the Bible:
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There is biblical evidence suggesting that demons may not be cast out of people unconditionally. If so, then there might have been even more people in need of a demon to be cast out (but to which the conditions would not have been met for that) as those already recorded to have it happening to them.

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Demons may not be cast out of people unconditionally:
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Having accurate expectations:

Not everyone having a need for a demon to be cast out will have the same description. For example, people may have simply found themselves "in the synagogue" (Luke 4:33) without any other specific description of them, and yet they would still have had a need for a demon to be cast out of them, as it is then written 2 verses later that "the DEMON, having-thrown him down into (their) midst, CAME-OUT from him" (Luke 4:35).

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Descriptions of people who needed a demon to be cast out:
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It is not because someone may not witness demons being cast out often that therefore there would be no need for that to happen. Casting out demons can be considered a miracle. Paul wrote: "God placed SOME in the church (as) first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then MIRACLES [...]. All (do) not (do) MICRACLES, (do they)?" (1 Corinthians 12:28-29). Not everyone would have a gift of miracles allowing them to witness such miracle happen often.

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Casting out demons - can be considered a miracle:
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Demons do not usually come out of people without someone casting them out. This is important because many people never had any demons cast out of them before, thus it is entirely possible that they would have a need for that to happen, even though it is not necessarily the case, so it would have to be investigated case by case.

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Are demons usually coming out of people without casting them out?:
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Not everything is an indication that a demon needs to be cast out:
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What can be done to find out if there is a need for a demon to be cast out?:
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