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Unlearn a Naturalistic Worldview, Part 2
The Biblical Witness of Angels
This is part two of an excerpt from a chapter on discarding a naturalistic worldview and accepting the reality of angelic protection and oversight. You can read part one HERE.
It sometimes feels a tad embarrassing to speak of angels because they have been so misrepresented in art and lampooned beyond all biblical recognition, with the sense that to say you believe in angels is to sound to so many others like you believe something patently silly, like the tooth fairy or the Easter bunny. But the best response to popular culture’s misappropriation of angels isn’t a denial of what is, but a more accurate representation to replace the false one.
It’s even sadder that Christians tend to speak of demons more than angels. I hear people speaking about demons all the time; angels? Not so much.
Emphasizing demons over angels runs counter to the biblical emphasis. If you look in a concordance, the Bible mentions demons thirty-eight times, either referring to actual demons or in passages where the apostles teach and warn about demons. Thirty-eight occurrences aren’t insignificant so it’s not inappropriate for believers to speak of demons on occasion.
By contrast, the Bible mentions angels over three hundred times, an almost ten-to-one ratio! If the Bible mentions something three hundred times, we should probably pay attention to it. We need to unlearn an overly naturalistic worldview and learn the blessings and reality of worshipping a supernatural God who watches over us in supernatural ways.[i]
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