A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

The Charismatic Movement
said the principle was right but the implementation was
wrong.
Spiritual Warfare Techniques
Another area of doctrinal innovation is the teaching of
certain spiritual warfare techniques. Of course, the Bible
clearly teaches that the church is at war with Satan, but
in a search for special keys for winning this warfare,
many Charismatics embrace beliefs that the Scriptures do
not support.
For instance, some teach that Spirit-filled believers
can have demons inhabiting them. The key to victory
over various attitudes and habits of sin is to cast out the
demons responsible for them. Don Basham popularized
this view with his book Pigs in the Parlor. After accepting
this teaching, one assistant pastor starting trying to
cast demons out of various church members. When the
pastor admonished him to stop this practice, he accused
the pastor of having a demon of unbelief. Scripture,
however, does not support such a view. While demons
can attack Christians, they cannot enter the body or
spirit of someone who is filled with the Spirit. (See Luke
10:18-20; I Corinthians 6:17, 19-20; I John 4:4, 13, 18;
5:18.)
Some Charismatics teach the theory of generational
curses and generational spirits. A person can inherit a
spiritual curse or an evil spirit because of the sins of an
ancestor. Again, in order for the person to have spiritual
victory, the particular ancestral curse or spirit must be
identified and overcome. A scriptural response, however,
is to recognize that a person’s sins and wrong choices can
indeed affect his descendants, but God treats everyone
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