Angels, Demons and all the Hosts

ANGELOLOGY
M. M. NINAN
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
DEMONS, GHOSTS AND SPIRITS
Belief in Demons, Ghosts and Spirits was in existence in every culture in the world since time
immemorial. This is not surprising because these were part of the common experience of
people in everyday life. There were phenomena which man could not explain in terms of
natural laws as he understood. It was clear that the universe existed outside of man and
there is no reason to believe that there are no more realities which fall outside of the five
senses with which we define material world.
Thus every rational person believed in worlds invisible and therefore to beings which are beyond
senses. These were called Spirits and Ghosts. When experience indicated that some of
them at least are malevolent, they were called demons.
How these beings came into existence is defined exactly in terms of how mankind and for that
matter how other living entities of the universe came into existence. They were originally
created by God and since God is good, he could not have created them evil. Evil is therefore
remained a problem. Evil could only be what Good God did not intent to be. Thus it could
only be explained in terms of the freewill given to sentient creations. Evidently without the
free will everything will be machines and even man will be only a sophisticated bio-robot.
The existence of freewill will require an inflow of the sovereignty of God himself into his creation
to form beings in his own image. These creations were called Sons of God, a name which
explains itself.
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