I believe I have been badly mistaken about spirituality for most of my life. I’ve been a Christian since I was eight years old. But even though I believed in God I was technically borderline atheist. I thought the God of the Bible was true but I mostly discounted anything else. Basically, I had a very narrow view about spiritual entities. I had an idea that Satan was like those cartoon devils whispering in your ear to do something bad. That’s it.
I thought all the idols I’ve seen in people’s homes and in temples in Taiwan were simply invented by humans. I’m sure many were. Or sometimes a legend grows and eventually they create a deity out of them. They also worship their ancestors which I thought was stupid.
But I’m starting to realize that a lot of the old gods, even the Greek pantheon, the Norse gods, and the ancient Chinese gods were real. They did exist (maybe not all of them but many of them) but they weren’t really gods. They were fallen angels or what we call demons. The Bible mentions the Nephilim which were the offspring of demons and humans.
“The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.”
Genesis 6:4
The demons hate God and humans. They are jealous of us because God has a special place in his heart for humans. They want more than anything to separate us from God and to lead us astray from his plans for us. That’s why they and their offspring masqueraded as gods, to steal our worship away from the God Most High.
We also know from the biblical narrative that gods such as Baal and Moloch required human sacrifice. We also see examples of this in other corners of the earth. The very first instruction given to Adam and Eve was to be fruitful and multiply. God wants more humans that he can interact with. The demons want us to die separated from God. I believe that these demons are still orchestrating evil events like wars and are trying to convince humans to sterilize themselves and to sacrifice their own offspring.
Sorry for rambling. I’m not sure who I can talk to about this stuff. I don’t belong to a church. I’ve become kind of disillusioned with the modern corporate style churches. If anyone knows of a Bible believing house church in central Florida please let me know.
Anyway, here’s a Ghiblified version of Guang Gong, created using Grok. I think police and military people worship him in Taiwan if I remember correctly. I think he’s also associated with wealth.
