Demonology Archive

  • You Can’t Hook Leviathan by the Nose

    You Can’t Hook Leviathan by the Nose

    Excerpt: In the pride and presumptuousness of our humanity, we all feel like that there must be some way to tame the evil that both surrounds and permeates us. We all cling to the hope that there must be some method, if not to avoid...

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  • Hated by the World

    Hated by the World

    The end of the 15th chapter of John deals with this antagonism of the world toward Jesus and His disciples. Jesus had spent much time in chapters 13 through 16 reassuring the disciples of His love for them, but be did not fail to warn...

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  • Jude: Man vs Wild

    Jude: Man vs Wild

    Since the beginning of time (Jude 14-15), the church has had her enemies, but the alarming revelation of Jude’s epistle is that the enemy has infiltrated the ranks of the redeemed. Jude says that certain people have crept into the church unnoticed. The enemy now...

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  • How To Deal With Demons

    How To Deal With Demons

    No one in reformed circles seems to want to come with 1000 miles of Demonology, but maybe my recent post inspired some to write about the biblical view of demons. Garry Weaver at Amazing Grace and Old Chevy’s has written a non-dramatic personal story well...

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  • If You Oil A Demon Enough, He’ll Slide Away

    If You Oil A Demon Enough, He’ll Slide Away

    I have discovered over the years different stages in the process of my own sanctification. Hindsight being what it is, I can look back and say, “Hey now I know what I learned from that”. Once such incident happened in the summer of 1995 during...

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  • An Evil Summary

    An Evil Summary

    I have found in the last several weeks that some Calvinist like to try to out do each other as to who can make God more mean. It is like some have fallen in love with God’s wrath… A romanticizing of evil. {Never did the...

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  • More Evil Questions

    More Evil Questions

    I received an email that asked the following: “[Adam] did have a desire to sin [prior to the Fall]. Did not God create Adam this way? [Was not] Adam’s ability to be swayed to do evil . . . created by God?” Here is my...

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  • Evil Questions

    Evil Questions

    The following is an excerpt of an email that I wrote in response to an email that I received with questions about “The Origin of Evil.” I wished to post this conversation because I think the emailer’s questions were valid and worthy of answering.******************************** ______,...

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  • God Decreed The Fall, but not Evil

    God Decreed The Fall, but not Evil

    Did God decree the fall of man? Did God decree evil? Let me answer this question by first quoting Jonathan Edwards: That we should say that God has decreed every action of men, yea, every action that is sinful, and every circumstance of those actions;...

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  • Evil’s Origin Unveiled

    Evil’s Origin Unveiled

    From where did evil originate? Does God decree evil? How can good come from evil? Why does evil exist? Will evil ever be eradicated? I will attempt to explain my beliefs based upon my studies of Theology Proper. I admit that my understanding of evil...

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  • What Is Evil?

    What Is Evil?

    In a recent post I was asked to explain further what evil actually is. As I have noted previously, evil is not a created “thing” as much as it is an action or lack of an action. By “action” we mean that it is a...

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  • Did God Create Evil?

    Did God Create Evil?

    Many people ask this question, “Why did God create evil?” — especially when trouble comes, when suffering invades their life. The question is a good one and worthy to be answered. First, a person must realize that evil is not a created thing. Show me...

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  • The Dark Side of Grace

    The Dark Side of Grace

    Why does God let me suffer? Why is my sister dying of cancer? Why is my child in ICU? Are there answers to such questions as these? I was trying to uproot a bush in my back yard. I casually bent down and gave it...

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