What are demons and why are they after us?

[Michie]

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains how demons "radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign."

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Biblical tradition (both written and oral, canonical and apocryphal) understands Satan is not alone in his mission to tempt, harm, and lead humanity astray. He is accompanied by demons -evil spirits whose primary mission is to disrupt the purpose of human lives.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains that, “the Church teaches that Satan was at first a good angel, made by God: ‘The devil and the other demons were indeed created naturally good by God, but they became evil by their own doing.‘ Scripture speaks of a sin of these angels. This ‘fall’ consists in the free choice of these created spirits, who radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign” (CCC 391-392).

The book of Revelation is seen to support this notion that Satan was not alone in his rebellion against God.

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What are demons and why are they after us?

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains how demons "radically and irrevocably rejected God and his reign."

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[Divide]

It is explained in Genesis 6 and the book of Enoch where Demons & evil spirits came from. Demons are not fallen angels. The fallen angels (about 200 of them) took earth girls as wives and had children with them. Thes hybrid beings were called the Nephilim. The Nephilim are hybrid beings and their spirit is not redeemable by God because, God is doing a Human thing and not a Hybrid being thing. That's why God sent the flood in Noahs time. The Nephilim were getting out of hand. So God caused a great flood and it killed all of the Nephilim.

When a Nephilim dies it's spirit can not be taken to heaven so it is bound to walk the earth as a disembodied spirit. Nephilim were very powerful creatures with superhuman strength. But as a disembodied spirit, they can't do much, so they seek out someone that they can possess.

And that's the short version of where Demons came from.