Do “Familiar Spirits” Pass Curses?
Many “GC” teachers say evil spirits can be passed from parents to children. Teresa Castleman gives the following shocking instructions for dealing with Christians who have habits from which they desire deliverance: In a deliverance session we handle this in the following manner: Call forth those curses that have been allowed through the generations by way of a Familiar Spirit we break the hold and command in the Name of Jesus that it flee. We command that it go to dry places and tell the curse it not be allowed [sic] to go into any future generations. Its power and hold is broken forever (25). Like the “bloodline” theory, this is unscriptural and dangerous teaching. Though the terms, “family” and “familiar” come from the same root and are related in meaning, the term, “familiar spirit” is not associated in Scripture with a human “family.” The spirit is called “familiar” because a demonized person has been made “familiar” with evil spirits who give information that could not be known an
