A reading of the Bible shows that it respects the African belief that there is a vast supernatural realm, full of evil and good spirits, but it also tells us that there is one who by the cross has “defeated the principalities and powers,” because he has procured forgiveness and the favor of God (Colossians 2:12–25), and by the Resurrection he has “[broken] the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free[d] those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death” (Hebrews 2:14–15).
