On Angels and Demons

American Thinker ^ | November 4, 2012 | Selwyn Duke

[Paladins Prayer]

When actor and director Mel Gibson was asked some years ago about certain difficulties he had when making his film The Passion of the Christ, he registered a countenance of unease and said (I'm paraphrasing), "Something doesn't want this to happen."

Being just a couple of seconds of his interview, it was perhaps hardly noticed by many. But it might have made the ears of people of faith, particularly Christians, perk up. And they would have known precisely to what he was alluding.

Of course, any talk of spirits not confined to the local liquor store is now often considered the stuff of children and crackpots. Yet is such scoffing logical?

Modern man, ever the materialist, may scoff at that question. "Matters of faith are anything but logical," says he, "so making light of them is eminently so." But this betrays a misunderstanding of logic.

[OneWingedShark]

And again, it is the human mind and nothing else that this Devil affects.

Certainly the biggest portion of [human/demon] interaction is with the mind (i.e. Jesus casting demons from the madman), but this does not mean that it is exclusive thereunto. The interaction between Satan and Jesus has Satan offering all the world to Jesus: Jesus did not engage him on the level of having the authority to do so, but rather on the level of what God's law said... if the devil were only a thing of his mind, and if Jesus is God, then there would be no wrong in worshiping Satan as he [Satan] would be God. Therefore Satan must be a different 'thing' than God.

While God appears to have been quite active in the universe before the appearance of mankind, where is this thing elsewhere?

I'm not sure, I wasn't there... nor is my gift of insight that sharp.

[Melas]

Read it. At least you were slightly different and didn’t suggest I read C.S. Lewis. I’ve read all of his stuff.

I can’t believe. It’s not in me. I have tried, but the voice of reason is always stronger.

[neverdem]

This is a very thoughtful article. Very unique.

That's why I would have posted it in News/Activism. In topics , I would have checked off crime, culture, philosophy and editorial in that order.

"For example, today it is not uncommon to hear, as a famous primatologist (whose name is not important) has reported, that '[t]he Bonobo apes have sex frequently -- even with members of the same sex -- and this may be their secret to avoiding conflict.'"

--snip--

"And what do moderns give us? The Bonobo ape. Or, worse still, pop-culture icons."

Our culture is crap, and its decline is accelerating.