Regarding the word daimôn and the phrase principalities and powers

Regarding the word daimôn and the phrase 'principalities and powers'.

Romans 8:38, Ephesians 3:10, Ephesians 6:12, Colossians 1:16 and Colossians 2:15 are some of the passages which mention "principalities" - powers who were and are not favourable towards mankind. The Bible shows that Jesus conquered those "principalities" and took their legal powers away from them.

The following will show that there is a connection between the word "demon" (daimôn and daimonion) and those spirit powers.

There are many misconceptions around various "religious" words. "Demon" is one of them. In old Greek, the word daimôn meant such things as "god", "goddess", "the gods", "deity", "divine power".

Often, the Greek used the words daimôn and theos, in similar ways. (A note: For people in ancient Greece, the word theos had nothing to do with the God of the Bible).

Among the Greek, daimôn was also used in the meaning "the power controlling the destiny of individuals", "fate", "lot", "fortune". Hoi daimones could also mean "the souls of men of the golden age", who were considered to be persons who formed "a link between gods and men". The Greek-English lexicon by Liddell and Scott notes that probably, the root of daimôn ("deity") was daiô which meant "to distribute" (pointing to "divine beings" who "distributed destinies").

A note regarding that "golden age". It is only the wicked spirit powers and their fleshly cronies who see that age as something "good" or "golden". That age was the time before the Flood. That age was so bad that the Lord made the drastic decision to put an end to it, through a flood. The Bible mentions those things only in passing. Genesis 6 mentions a part of that story, but because of misleading dogmas spread by churches, many people may find that passage hard to understand. The apostle Peter wrote about spirits who had been disobedient in the days of Noah. Those spirits were put into custody, perhaps to be judged later (see also Jude 6). But all were not, there were other rebels also.

Back to the word daimôn, also found in the longer form daimonion. Among the Greek, it was also used in the meaning "spirit being" or "(semi-)divine being". Sometimes especially, "evil spirit". The related word form daimonimozai meant, not only "to be under influence of a daimôn", but also, "to be deified". The related adjective daimonios meant, among the Greek, such things as "given by heaven", "inspired by heaven", "divine", "by divine grace", "by divine power", "by the hand of gods" "miraculous", "marvellous", and so on, and of course also, "belonging to a daimôn" and "under the influence of a daimôn". The word daimonomacheô meant something like "to fight against Heaven" (that is, against the Greek idols and their powers).

In the New Testament, however, the words daimôn, daimonion and related ones, were, for the most part, used in a different way, as a reference to rebel spirits who had become twisted and were taking humans as their personal captives.



The 'divine powers' of the Greek myths which point back to the 'golden age' - versus God.

Here is an example of the use of daimonion in the meaning "god" or similar, in the New Testament:

Acts 17:18 Also some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers debated with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign divinities [daimonion]." (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.) (NRSV, comment added)

Well, Paul was that: A proclaimer of a divine power which the Greek did not know.

Now, the Greek "gods" were myth figures, and myths are not facts, but behind those Greek myths there was something real. Those myths seem to point back to the times when the "sons of god" were in power here on Earth, in a more direct way (before the Flood, and also later).

It was those "principalities and powers" (who were in rebellion against God) that the apostle Paul on several occasions wrote about, to saints in Greek areas. Examples of that are found in Romans 8:38, Ephesians 1:21, Ephesians 3:10, Ephesians 6:12, Colossians 1:16, and Colossians 2:10-18.

Paul was explaining to the saints that Jesus had conquered those "principalities and powers", "dominions" and "thrones", and stripped them of their (legal) powers. It was through his sacrifice, in place of others, that Jesus did that.

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RedEarth

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1) The skies have turned orange and purple, the earth is spinning in the opposite direction on it's axis, the oceans, rivers and lakes are running red with blood, the dead have risen from their graves, and the end of all things has indeed finally come...OR

2) You're just running low on dramatic irony or some shyt.

I sincerely hope for the latter and not the former. At any rate, I came across this site from a radio show that comes on late at night...Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Do with it as you will T7. Good day!

*leaving thread still shaking head in a daze* LOL

Team Seven

but i'm saying it's fake, I took one look at the gallery and started laughing.

You gotta understand

RedEarth

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mrmckoy

Understand whom? YOU?

Locutus 2.0

everything in this thread is interesting....

While I DO believe there is a spiritual battle... I don't know if it's going to take place between humans and spirits (not to be confused with ghosts)...