The Struggle Is Real (The Flesh, The World, and the Devil) - The Spiritual Backdrop of Scripture [Ryan Ashley]

Genesis 1:1, Exodus 12:12; 15:1-2,11, Psalm 82:1-8, Ephesians 6:10-12

“The Bible from beginning to end presupposes spiritual beings who exist between humanity and God and whose behavior significantly affects human existence, for better of for worse.”

Greg Boyd – God at War: The Bible and Spiritual Conflict

 “From a cross-cultural perspective, the insight that the cosmos is teeming with spiritual beings whose behavior can and does benefit or harm us is simply common sense. It is we Westerners who are the oddballs for thinking that the only free agents who influence other people and things are human.”

Greg Boyd – God at War: The Bible and Spiritual Conflict

“At least for those of us for whom this collection of canonical books is no mere collection but rather constitutes the inspired Word of God, not seriously considering the warfare worldview can hardly be said to be an option, however much such a view may conflict with our own naturalistic cultural perspectives.”

Michael Heiser – Supernatural: What the Bible teaches about the unseen world and why it matters.