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Theos and Dimons - Are They Demons?
In the ancient world, in the greco roman world, you had a number of different terms for celestial beings. A dimon was a lower order spirit inferior to the gods and humans could manipulate demons by magic. And so what happened was, when christian apologists started evangelizing, they said, look, im, you're right. There is this great god behind everything,. But these olympian ones aren't really deserving of the title theos. They're not gods in that way. They're just diamond level beings. The original meaning of the term dimon just meant like an inferior spiritual being that humans could relate to in magical or religious ceremonies. This is a common