spiritual warfare
Battling unseen forces
Spiritual warfare is the belief that Christians are engaged in ongoing battle against evil supernatural forces—demons, Satan, or malevolent spirits.
The concept frames prayer, faith, and religious practice as weapons in cosmic conflict: The pastor spoke about spiritual warfare against temptation.
Some traditions emphasize active confrontation through prayer and exorcism; others treat it more metaphorically as the struggle against sin and worldly corruption.
- principalitiesPrince-governed states
- exorcismRitual to expel demons
- casting outForcing to leave
- Holy SpiritThird divine person
- prayerAddress to deity
prayer warrior · salvation · demons · discernment · intercession · demonology · angels · heavenly realms · deliverance · Satan · fallen angels · temptation · fasting · God · anointing oil · powers · archangels · faith
- supernaturalghosts, ghost, witches, vampire, demon
- Biblical Supernaturalsorcery, witchcraft, magic, demons, exorcism
- Christianesealtar call, backslider, blessed, born again, churched
- Evangelicalismevangelicalism, born again, born-again, evangelists, evangelist
- exorcismexorcism, exorcist, demon, possession, possessed
- faith fictioncontemporary Christian, Bible stories, biblical tales, biblical drama, miracle stories
spiritual warfarearmed conflict
Military combat between groups
conventional warfare · hand-to-hand combat · economic warfare · political struggle · political warfare
spiritual warfaredivine harmony
Perfect spiritual unity
inner peace · quietism · acceptance · resignation · capitulation
spiritual warfaresecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
empiricism · materialism · naturalism · physicalism · rationalism
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