Expert: Brenda Martin - 6/1/2005

Question
What is the origin of the name "Damian"  and what is its relationship to the devil.

Answer
FACT--A Demon is--An invisible, wicked, spirit creature having superhuman powers. The common Greek word for demon (dai´mon) occurs only once in the Christian Greek Scriptures, in Matthew 8:31; elsewhere the word dai·mo´ni·on appears.

I would say the film makers have used the greek word for Demon, so I will tell you the relationship that exists between the devil and the demons.

The demons as such were not created by God. The first to make himself one was Satan the Devil, who became THE RULER of other angelic sons of God who also made themselves demons. (Mt 12:24, 26)

Though restrained from materializing, they still have great power and influence over the minds and lives of men, even having the ability to enter into and possess humans and animals, and the facts show that they also use inanimate things such as houses, fetishes, and charms.—Mt 12:43-45; Lu 8:27-33

The bible tells us where these ones are--“Down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels [demons] were hurled down with him. On this account . . . woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time.” (Re 12:9, 12)

The use of the word “demon” in the bible is narrow and specific (But correct) compared with the notions of ancient philosophers and the way the word was used in classical Greek.

In this regard the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, edited by G. Kittel (Vol. II, p. 8) remarks: “The meaning of the adjective dai·mo´ni·os brings out most clearly the distinctive features of the Greek conception of demons, for it denotes that which lies outwith human capacity and is thus to be attributed to the intervention of higher powers, whether for good or evil. [To dai·mo´ni·on] in pre-Christian writers can be used in the sense of the ‘divine.'” (Translated and edited by G. Bromiley, 1971)

all the best
Brenda