Origin of demons

[Dordrecht]

Originally Posted by Moonlightpixel

Do people with the gift of discernment travel on mission trips?
If they do, then I need to tell people what my gift is!

How does this relate to the subject of the thread.
Maybe you should start a new thread.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by mizpeh

I think it is a term to contrast with "light". Esaias should consider doing a study of the word, darkness, in the NT.

I think of the 'chains of darkness' as the fallen angels being bound up so that their minds are absolutely darkened that they can no longer do good.

That's what I meant by blindness

[Abiding Now]

Jud 1:6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.



I believe that demons are fallen angels and that they are "reserved in everlasting chains under darkness", just as satan was restrained/watched (see Strong's G5083)/reserved and because God is "watching", satan and his fallen comrades can only do what God allows. Example: satan had limitations that God enforced in the book of Job.

[Aquila]

The term "demon" is a generic term that encompasses devils (fallen angels) and unclean spirits. Many believe that some "unclean spirits" are spirits that originated here on earth. Many believe that they are the disembodied Nephilim of Genesis 6 who drowned in the flood. Others believe that these are spirits of the "unpurified" or "impure" dead who are essentially damned and desire to haunt and/or torment the living with fear and various maladies as they roam the earthly plane. Some believe that these are both. These are known as "dybbuks" in Judaism and various rabbinical writings.

Unclean spirits desire to inhabit human bodies more than fallen angels do. This is because they once had bodies of their own. They desire to "live out" their lusts and desires through their host, ever enticing them into deeper and deeper levels of various sins and unhealthy habits... or even heinous acts. Some unclean spirits are jealous of the living and seek to bring sickness and various maladies to inflict suffering upon the living. Either way, be the possession a fallen angel or an unclean spirit, exorcism is the only remedy.

[Abiding Now]

Originally Posted by Aquila

The term "demon" is a generic term that encompasses devils (fallen angels) and unclean spirits. Many believe that some "unclean spirits" are spirits that originated here on earth. Many believe that they are the disembodied Nephilim of Genesis 6 who drowned in the flood. Others believe that these are spirits of the "unpurified" or "impure" dead who are essentially damned and desire to haunt and/or torment the living with fear and various maladies as they roam the earthly plane. Some believe that these are both. These are known as "dybbuks" in Judaism and various rabbinical writings.

Unclean spirits desire to inhabit human bodies more than fallen angels do. This is because they once had bodies of their own. They desire to "live out" their lusts and desires through their host, ever enticing them into deeper and deeper levels of various sins and unhealthy habits... or even heinous acts. Some unclean spirits are jealous of the living and seek to bring sickness and various maladies to inflict suffering upon the living. Either way, be the possession a fallen angel or an unclean spirit, exorcism is the only remedy.

To me, demons and unclean spirits are one and the same, to believe other wise is to believe in haints.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Abiding Now

To me, demons and unclean spirits are one and the same, to believe other wise is to believe in haints.