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In line with the evolution of the concept of demons, it is interesting to see how analogous the original and primary concept of the term is with our modern notion of spirit. Being an ethereal but manifest force is of today the primary characteristics of demons as we view them today. According to the New International Dictionary of the New Testament Theology, Empedocles believed that “demon was a separate spiritual being, not the psyche which accompanied a man from birth (Brown, 1979, Vol. I P. 450. This idea destroys demonic possession.

It is also fascinating to see that Plato’s students classified some demons as the disembodied spirits of the dead. Many Christians believe that ghosts are demonic entities and this will support that theory. In one of my books titled, “Comparative Philosophy of the New Age,” I did mention how ghosts and demons can interact but not of the category. There are demons and they are interested in manifesting pain in the lives of those who profess Christ.

It is also fascinating to see that Plato’s students classified some demons as the disembodied spirits of the dead. Many Christians believe that “ghosts” if real are demonic entities and this will support that theory. From profound spiritual cum theological research, I came to the full conviction that demons are not disembodied spirits of the pre-adamite race.

The notion that influenced the above school of thought is pure mental conjecture. The only created beings revealed to have existed before the creation of man are angels. Though the rigid distinction between “angel and spirit” which this theory demands is questionable since scripture refers to angels as spirits as is evident in psalm 104:4; Heb. 1:14. The bible sometimes uses the term “angel” for the spirit of man as you can see in matt.18:10 and  Acts 12:15.

The classical Greek meaning of the term “demons” denoting “the good spirit of the departed men of the golden age” as in Hesiod, philosophy is at variance with the constant cum uniform New Testament of the word. In the words of Merill Funger, “The word “demon” like other distinctive biblical words in Greek, was divinely molded through the pre-Christian centuries for its unique New Testament usage. To use its originally pagan concepts as the basis of a theory is totally unwarranted”.

The great Jewish historian Josephus was of the view that demons “are the spirit of the wicked that enter into men that are alive”. Demons are not the spirits of the deceased men this theory is apparently a reflection of the Greek philosophy and not in profound tandem with the bible.

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On the other hand, demons are not the unnatural offspring of angels and ante-diluvian women. The reasons are obvious base on two premises. Premise one is that “the sons of God” of Genesis 6:2 are fallen angels who had intercourse with mortal women, producing a mongrel race, partly human and partly angelic, called Nephilim in Hebrew (fallen one) rendered “giants”.

The above refers “not so much on human size and strength, but to the Greek gegeness (earth born) and is used for the mythical titans, who were partly of celestial and partly of terrestrial origin. That these “sons of God” were angels and not “godly Sethites”, as some scholars maintain, is supported by the uniform use of the term in the Old Testament, where it appears restricted to angelic beings (Job 1:6,  2:1, 38:7)”.

The first premise of the above theory seems established; the second is mere supposition in the face of the silence of the revelation. It is mere speculation to imagine that the monstrous offspring of fallen angels and corrupt pre-flood women became disembodied spirits or demons after their bodies were destroyed in the deluge. “That the fallen angels who thus sinned were consigned to Tartarus is revealed in the new Testament (2peter 2:4-9, Jude 1:6,7), but the fate of their mongrel offspring is not told in scripture.

To say demon possession is merely a superstitious explanation of certain diseases is to say the least an abomination in the entire spectrum of my spiritual voyage. Such illusory concept does not and cannot be true. There are demons and they are unconfined fallen angels. In view of the Bible’s silence regarding the origin of demons, the best supported deduction from biblical hints, is that demons are fallen angels.

When Lucifer rebelled and introduced sin into a previously sinless universe, he drew with him a great number of lower celestial beings (Matt 25:41, Rev. 12 :4). These demons according to the word of God are free to roam the heavens under their leader prince, who became Satan, also called Beelzebub prince of demons” (matt 12:24) “Satan and his angels” (matt 25:41) and “the dragon……….and his angels”(Rev 12:7).

For those philosophers and skeptics who are of the view that the doctrines and believe in demons is merely the creation of superstition and imagination and that the whole idea of demonism belongs to the world of fairy tale and folklore, and not to the sphere of Christian theology, I wish to remind you once again that you are already carried into “Babylon” the abode of destruction. I have always emphasized that the idea that Satan does not exist is a serious form of demonic manipulation designed to awaken the coarse cum carnal consciousness of the finite mortal which the resultant effect is damnation.

Verily I say to anyone with this kind of demented mentality of Satanism that you have strayed into bondage. The basis of this exposition is to reawaken the divine consciousness of Christ in you. This is an age of phenomenal progress in man’s conquest of the universe. Awestruck observers are flocking to the alters erected by science to revere human development and achievements in the realm of science.

Meanwhile, the divine alters (of God) are forsaken as naturalism in theology threatens to eliminate the supernatural from everyday thought and life. The situation is apparently ironical to the Christians who see God permitting man to achieve feats bordering on the miraculous. Why should any become skeptical apathetic toward religious supernaturalism at a time when science is demonstrating how “close” the natural and the supernatural can be?