Q: Are a majority of Christians today ignorant of Demons?
Q: Are a majority of Christians today ignorant of Demons?
A: Let me preference my response by saying, “The numbers don’t lie!” The Christian surveyor, George Barna reported in The Christian Post Newsletter that, “The majority of American Christians do not believe that Satan is a real being or that the Holy Spirit is a living entity. Nearly 6 out of 10 Christians either strongly agreed or somewhat agreed with the statement that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil,” the survey found. 40 percent strongly agreed with the statement while 19 percent of American Christians somewhat agreed. Likewise, most Christians in the United States do not believe that the Holy Spirit is a living force. 58 percent strongly or somewhat agreed with the statement that the Holy Spirit is “a symbol of God’s power or presence but is not a living entity.”
Therefore, I’m in agreement that the majority of Christians today are totally ignorant of the nature of evil spirits (or demons), and many would prefer that they were not even mentioned. It’s obvious that weak Christians prefer to ignore what the Word of God says about Satan and demon spirits – in terms of the ministry of deliverance – because weak Christians are certainly fearful of things beyond their understanding.
One Christian writer made a profound statement by saying, “One of the deadliest misrepresentations of the truth of God is that a Christian should not be concerned with thoughts that a demon could be their problem;” He went on to say, “This is taught within many churches and gives the devil a ‘field day’ to bring fear, mental torment, jealousy, hatred, lust, pride, self-pity, addiction, gluttony, and many other forms of bondage, oppression, and defilement.” How true!