When He said ‘spirits’ He was talking about demons.
By who? We’re powerless to do that on our own. That’s why the Holy Spirit comes and takes permanent residence when we invite Him in. The Holy Spirit is our seal. A seal that can’t be removed.
Angels and demons, Anthony. Use that Polygot you got and do a word search on the different ways scripture presents spirits.
Hebrews 1 is a good place to start - look at verses 13 and 14 specifically. The Greek word (in English) is aggelos which can be a messenger, an angel, a demon, even an animal. These are called “ministering spirits” sent out as servants.
Being demon-possessed is a phenomenon associated with humanity.
Nevertheless, being born again to the sonship of God, it’s not possible to be demon-possessed.
Do you recall, or perhaps you still see this today without knowing the background… but it used to be that when a person sneezed, those around the sneezer, would respond with “May God bless you!”
I still hear it all the time, in a shortened format-- “Bless you” -when someone sneezes.
If we look in the history books, we can find many different thoughts on how and why the**phrase “God bless you!” started. Some think “God bless you” started when Pope Gregory said it to those who sneezed. It was a time when many people were dying from a plague and they thought the sickness started with a sneeze. Some think “God bless you” was said because a person’s heart stopped or skipped a beat when they sneezed. They would say it so your heart would restart. Some thought evil spirits or bad things came out of the body when one sneezed and they filled the body up with good things by saying, “God bless you!” Some people just think that saying, “God bless you!” is good luck.
The thought was that in sneezing- ‘the spirit’ was leaving the body.
We see examples from scripture, like King Saul having the spirit taken from him, and later King David praying that the spirit NOT be taken from him.
Lots of so-called Christian miniters are possessed with demons of lies …