Things which exist are real enough. We can measure them. They are just this big and no bigger or smaller.
TheY are here and not there.
Imaginary things have the luxury of being any size. They can be any place.
Which raises the question: How big is a demon?
Are they people size? It would not seem so. These creatures can occupy a human the way a tenant occupies an apartment!
How many people can fit in a phone booth? Just a certain number....depending on what size the people are. Phone booths are a standard size.
CONSIDER:
Phone Booth Packing was a 1950's fad in which a bunch of people crammed themselves into a telephone booth. It became all the rage with college students in 1959. It even rose to a competitive level, pitting college against college. Due to the competitive edge, the question arose whether packing into a phone booth meant the whole body, half a body or just a part of a body. This question arose when a South African college said it had been able to fit twenty-five students into a booth made for one, setting a "world record" that has never been defeated.
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So, how do we sqaure the following Bible account with any kind of reality?
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9 Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?”
“My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.” 10 And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area.
11 A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. 12 The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.” 13 He gave them permission, and the impure spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned.
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Gee, how fat was this demon possessed person? A lot bigger than a phone booth, I'd imagine!
Why do I ask this question?
To bring REALITY into it.
Reality is real. Reality has actuality.
Everyday things which are invisible (data over a broadband connection) are quantifiable. We have phones with 4 G networks, don't we?
That is an actual thing. Quantifiable.
The speed of light is quantifiable.
The force of gravity is quantifiable (and invisible.)
Newton's law of universal gravitation
About fifty years after Kepler announced the laws now named after him, Isaac Newton showed that every particle in the Universe attracts every other with a force which is proportional to the products of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of their separation.
Hence:
If F is the force due to gravity, g the acceleration due to gravity, G the Universal Gravitational Constant (6.67x10-11 N.m2/kg2), m the mass and r the distance between two objects. Then
F = G m1 m2 / r2
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My point?
Just this: when you bring to bear the force of reason and sanity to the subject of DEMONS the test of REALITY fails!
We are to believe that demons have the power of creation, for example! Only God has this power, presumably.
In the account in Genesis we find the "angels/demons" forsake heaven to have intercourse with human women! The physical body necessary
to accomplish this would require an act of creation. Sperm with working DNA would be required! Do these angel/demons KNOW the DNA code and how to hack it??
Sperm in testicles attached to males in working condition is an act of CREATION, is it not?
I won't get silly about this. The entire story falls apart when you ask sane and logical questions and expect a rational response.
HOW BIG IS A DEMON?
Answer: as big as human imagination.