After the movie, I ended up chatting for a few minutes with a couple of guys who had just seen it too. "What'd you think?" is what we each wanted to know. I told them I came to see if they handled the truth correctly or if they were just out to make a scary movie.
Ultimately, I think they handled it all pretty well. The theme of the story is to get some truth out about the spiritual realm. As I said yesterday, people who watch this movie will certainly have to wrestle with what they believe about demons and whether they believe in God or not. The ending pulls no punches about that.
I found it interesting how many of the people in the movie just plain thought people who believed in demons are crazy. Even the attorney who kept telling us he was religious (as if being religious means you have all the answers). There just has to be another scientific explanation when weird things happen, right?!
Well demons exist whether you or I believe in them. They'd prefer you don't believe in them at all, but they will accept belief as long as you're afraid of them. That gives them the upper hand. Not standing up to bullies always gives them the edge.
Bottom line: there really is a spiritual realm which is at least inhabited by angels, demons and God. And we have a spirit which is built to sense and access that realm (one day we'll live there too). We can do it for good or we can do it for evil. In the end, like any good story- good is stronger than evil because "greater is he that is in you (Jesus) than he that is in the world."
Jesus trumps any demon, any time. He is not one of them or equal with them, he is their creator.
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demons...they dont make life so easy, do they?
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