I thought of posting a similar thread the other day when I read on here that some posters believe that other Religion's God's are really demons.
I've never heard this anywhere else outside a few posters here before. That other Gods are real, but they are actually demons for the true God to conquer. Is this a mainstream Christian belief? Or is this a fringe thing?
To me this feels to me like a reverse engineered way to make your religion the only real one.
All of those other Gods that people worshipped way before ours: they were just sons, or demons, or angels, or whatever of the real God. All of those other groups had it wrong, we are the only ones that got it right, trust us.
Sources...
https://texags.com/forums/15/topics/3211888Codker92:"Commentary: God has power over the gods of Egypt."
"Well let's think about it. The Psalms say that no other God is equal to Yahweh. Psalm 89:6 (LEB): For who in the sky is equal to Yahweh? Who is like Yahweh among the sons of God,
To say that other Gods don't exist is to say that God is greater than nothing, which isn't much. I would say that just about everything and everyone is better than nothing."
"There actually is. It's called the divine council, and they rule with God."
Zobel:"I agree with codker on this. The scriptures are clear that there are other divine beings - gods - which are real. They are the sons of God, part of the divine council, and serve as regents and agents in creation. They are angelic beings, and these are who the Lord and St Paul are referring to when they speak about being sons of God, equal to the angels, etc.
St Paul doesn't say the gods of the nations are imaginary, he says the gods of the nations are demons. Fallen angels, angels who were assigned nations to lead and guide but fell by rebelling against The Most High God and accepting worship in his place.
The promise of salvation is an extension of the promise to Abraham - that we are to become like the stars. His offspring are to like them in both quality and quantity.
There is much scriptural support for all of this in both the OT and NT."
"I also think it is a mistake for us to take the other side of the dialogue as ridiculous superstition, dreamed up by backwards fools. The ancients were not fools. St Paul doesn't say the gods of the nations don't exist, he says they're demons. Zeus wasn't imaginary."
