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Originally Posted by KSA
It is not superstition, it's a fact. The Bible is clear that our mind is a special target of the enemy. I was replying to the part of your post where you said that in a case of mental illness it is easy to distinghish between soul and spirit. I tell you that mental problems can be the result of spiritual causes. In LC this area was completely overlooked. Many mental problems are the result of believing satan's lie. I know of one brother who was a drug addict. He could not be delivered, because he believed a lie that he is not a drug addict. Once he recognized it, he was delivered. Books of Neil Anderson are helpful in this regard.
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I believe the local church has not overlooked the spiritual causes of mental problems. If you can just give some time to read Brother Watchman Nee's "The Spiritual Man" you would know exactly where the local church stands on this matter. As an example, I am posting the following excerpt:
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The book of James was written to the believers. Verses 14 and 15 of chapter three say clearly what the relationship between the soul-life and the work of Satan is: "But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which descends from above, but is earthly, soulish, demonic." We see here that there is a kind of wisdom which comes from Satan. This kind of wisdom is also from man's soul. This causes us to conclude that this kind of wisdom is the result of the work of Satan in man's soul. This is very clear. "The flesh" is the factory of the devil, but the work of Satan on the soul is no less than his work in the body. These two verses tell us that envying and strife occur due to the believer's seeking of knowledge. This is because the devil works in man's soul-life. A believer may only know that the enemy can tempt man to sin but may not know that he can also give thoughts to man. The fall of man was due to man's love of knowledge and love of wisdom. Even now Satan still uses this to cause a believer to keep his soul-life as a machine for his work.
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