A Christian Post column asks a question I’ve wanted to shout from the rooftops: your Bible is full of angels and demons, so why do we read it like it isn’t?
It starts with Elisha’s servant waking up to an army around the city. Elisha prays, “Open his eyes,” and the young man sees the hills “full of horses and chariots of fire” (2 Kings 6:17). The story never argues that an unseen world exists. It just assumes it.
We edited out the cast
The writer points out how many of us quietly turned angels into symbols and demons into old words for mental illness. A lot of that came from Rudolf Bultmann’s idea that nobody with electric lights could believe in spirits. Most of us never read Bultmann, but we soaked up the idea anyway.
Scripture doesn’t play along. Job’s heavenly court, the “prince of Persia” that delayed Daniel’s answer (Daniel 10:13), and Jesus casting out demons and calling Himself the stronger man who binds the strong man. The early church read it the same way.
Why this matters to me
In charismatic circles we talk about spiritual warfare, sometimes too loosely. But the answer isn’t to stop believing. It’s to read the whole story: these powers are real, they’re creatures, and they’ve already lost at the cross (Colossians 2:15). We don’t fight for victory. We stand in it.
So pray like Elisha did: “Lord, open my eyes.” There are more with us than with them.
God Bless, and May the Source Be with You!
