Dagon among the gods

Modernists would call me a Fundamentalist. To the Secularists I am an Evangelical. And Progressives regard me as Conservative. But I have trouble with scholars who come from my own camp when they avoid translating the Biblical text in a plain and straight-forward way, especially when it comes to the reality of the supernatural.

The gods of the pagan world existed and had supernatural power. But they were not gods. They were mere creatures, fallen supernatural beings who had turned away from the worship of the one true God, the God of the Bible.

Dagon is one of those so-called gods. He had the body of a fish and the head and hands of a man. In the end, Dagon bows before the one true God, the God of Israel, and this is something that all the pagan gods one day will do.

Contrary to the practical atheism that characterizes America and the West, the supernatural world is real and pregnant with great trouble and great blessing.

In the same passage where Paul speaks about the dangers posed by the demonic gods of paganism, he also commends the Lord's Supper as a supernatural ordinance where the powers of the age to come are released to bless believers.