So what do we do with demons in the Bible? If you're anything like me you were raised in the

era of video games and the internet and demons are like a snark or a

goblin or something or a little red flame monster with teeth they're impish they cause problems they advance the plot they look like

Tim Curry and legend or Dave Grohl in that tenacious D video and they're

red and they get the whipsnap pointy tail.

And really all of that is a product of stuff that was written

over a thousand years after the New Testament.

Overwhelmingly, our notions of demons are medieval and Catholic and a mix of

folklore with some satire that was intended to push back on the Catholic Church

most notably in the form of Dante's Inferno which as is the case with any work of art given enough time,

we lose our ability looking back in history to properly nuance and identify all of the little

touches and flourishes that were going on there that the original audience

to those medieval works that I'm referencing, they would have caught that immediately.

So you get this lore and this legend that builds up around demons and overwhelmingly it's

fantasy it's nonsense it's ridiculous and everybody knows it's ridiculous

Bugs Bunny knew it was ridiculous when you get the fake devils popping up but the Bible doesn't hold it out as ridiculous ridiculous.

But the Bible doesn't hold it out as ridiculous.

The Bible predates all of that stuff,

and demons just come up from time to time.

And what's crazier to me is they come up in a way where it's like well yeah you all know about

the demons right in Matthew 816 which we looked at I don't know a couple of weeks

ago the demon thing comes up and it's just in passing when evening came many who were

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