The Importance of Imagination in Passover

The biblical authors view reality as we experience it as this little oasis of goodness and order surrounded by a dark nothingness out of which God summoned all creation with his powerful word. And at any moment, if God were to relax his sustaining, ordering word, the oasis would be swallowed up by the chaos and death. That's how sickness is depicted in the biblical story. It's an eruption of chaos onto the good ordered land,. Why sickness and demonic influence is linked so closely together in the stories of Jesus because they're joined in the biblical imagination.