귀신 (demons)이란 무엇인가?

      "귀신"이란 한국사람들이 전통적으로 믿어오고있는 "죽은자의 넋" 혹은 죽은사람의 "영혼"이 아니다.

    이개념을 퍼트리기 위해서 온갖 방법으로
사람들 사이에 그릇된개념을 퍼트린자가 있다.  

     죽은자의 상태와 관련한 가장 널리퍼진 믿음은  그들이 살아있다는 것이고, 또한 현재 살아있는 사람들에게 영향을 미친다는것이다.  이개념을 퍼트린자가 있다. 전세계에는 "흉가"가 있고, 귀신들 혹은 demons들이 사는 특별한장소가 있다.  게다가 무당,  박수 , 점치는자들이 전세계에 존재한다.  이들은 그런 죽은자들이 살아 있다는 거짓개념을  널리퍼트리는 주요수단이다.

    이들 존재의 구체적인 실체를 이해하려면 성서를 살펴보아야한다.   성서만이  이들에 대해 객관적인 사실정보를 제공하기 때문이다.

Demons

One of the strange results of the common belief that our ‘souls’ or ‘spirits’ leave our bodies when we die, is that it leads people to believe that we are surrounded by spirits of dead people who can haunt and harm us. In fact, there are many TV programs that tell of unnatural occurrences, which they attribute to the spirits of those who have died. Yet, any study of ancient religions shows that such beliefs come from pagan traditions, not from the Bible. For throughout the Bible we read instead of ‘demons’ being the true source of such unearthly things, and these aren’t the spirits of dead humans.

What are demons? Well, although many people believe in the existence of ‘extra-terrestrials’ (creatures that come from other planets), they don’t choose to believe what the Bible says about the existence of evil ‘spirit’ (breath-like) beings that have lived since the dawn of creation… other ‘sons of God’ who have chosen a rebellious course of existence, and are called ‘demons.’

Are there really demons? Yes, for the Bible tells us (at Deuteronomy 32:16, 17):
‘With strange gods, they enraged Me,
And with loathsome things, made Me angry.
For, to unknown demons, they offered sacrifices,
And not to the God [of all] gods.’

Psalm 96:55:
‘For the gods of the nations are demons,
But Jehovah created the skies.’

Psalm 106:35-38:
‘They mixed with the nations and learned of their ways,
And served their idols to offend Him.
They offered their sons and daughters to demons…
They poured out innocent blood…
The blood of their own sons and daughters.
To CanaAn’s carvings they sacrificed them,
And polluted the land with murder and blood.’

Isaiah 65:3:
‘Before Me they stand and [do evil things]…
For they sacrifice in their gardens
And burn incense on bricks before demons!

Matthew 12:24:
‘But on hearing that, the Pharisees said, He’s throwing out demons by [the power of] BeElZebub, the ruler of the demons!’

Luke 5:41:
‘Demons also came out of many of them, shouting, You’re the Son of God!’

Luke 8:30:
‘So Jesus asked him: What is your name?
And he replied, Legion (because many demons had entered him).’

1 Corinthians 10:20:
‘I’m telling you that the things the nations offer as sacrifices are being offered to the demons, not to God…  and I don’t want you to become sharers with the demons!’

1 Timothy 4:1:
‘However, the Spirit definitely says that some will leave the faith in the future and pay attention to wicked spirits and the teachings of demons.’

So yes, demons are real. But where did they come from?

Genesis 6:1, 2:
‘Now, as the population of men grew on the earth and they fathered daughters, the sons of God noticed that the daughters of men were beautiful… so they took all whom they chose as their women. (Notice that these were ‘sons of God,’ but the women were ‘daughters of men.’)

2 Peter 2:4, 5:
‘God didn’t spare the messengers (angels) who sinned, but threw them into the dark pits of Tartarus, where they are awaiting His justice… and He didn’t spare the first arrangement. Yet, He guarded Noah (who was a preacher of righteousness) along with seven others, when He brought a downpour upon a world of godless people.’

So, according to the Bible, demons are in fact ‘extraterrestrial life forms’ that were created by God (making them His sons) who have chosen a rebellious course of life and have been locked away here on the earth, where they desire to continue to do bad things and to be worshiped.

Therefore, it appears as though these ‘sons of God’ came to earth and assumed human bodies in Noah’s day. However, because they couldn’t be destroyed by the downpour (flood) and they had forsaken heaven, they were apparently put into a prison-like state here on the earth, where they are no longer able to roam.

Understand that demon is a Greek word that seems to be derived from dia-meno, which means fixed in one place. From other Bible accounts about demons, it appears as though this ‘fixing in one place’ means that they must be associated with either living or non-living things, which is referred to as ‘possession.’ These are likely the same ones that are referred to in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Micah, and in the Revelation, as ‘chained demons.’

However, there also appear to be other demons that are not chained or fixed in one place. These, as well as the ‘chained demons,’ are mentioned at Isaiah 34:12-14.

It is interesting that at Acts 17:18, it is recorded that the Epicureans and Stoic Philosophers of Greece referred to Paul’s teachings as coming from ‘a foreign demon.’ Although most translations render these words as ‘foreign god,’ they actually said ‘demon’ (gr. daimonion). And notice Paul’s reply as found at Acts 17:22:
‘Men of Athens; I see that you have a greater fear of the demons than do others.’

The reason why this term was used is obvious: The many pagan idols and Gods of Athens, although made of metal and stone, actually had the backing of demons, and the people recognized the power that was given to these lifeless objects through ‘possession’ by their gods.

So, understand that there are no such things as the spirits of dead humans that haunt the earth. The Bible tells us at Ecclesiastes 9:5:
‘For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have a reward, since the memory of them is forgotten.’