Well...that's not true cause demons aren't real.
In biblical truth according to Scripture (KJV), the term “demon” is not in the Bible — the word most commonly translated as “devil(s)” comes from the Greek word daimonion, which has a vastly different meaning than what modern theology and tradition teach.
🔹 What Is a Demon?
A “demon” is not a fallen angel, a creature, or some disembodied evil spirit possessing people. The concept of demons as supernatural beings who enter into humans is not found in Scripture, especially not in the Textus Receptus or KJV.
Instead, the Greek word daimonion means:
Daimonion (δαιμόνιον): A distributor of fortunes; the appetite or influence of the flesh. — From root word daio: “to distribute”
This refers to the desire of the carnal man — the outer man, or the unregenerate heart, not a spirit being.
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jer 17:9)
There is nothing more dangerous in this world than the wicked heart of man. If a demon were real, it would be a sissy compared to the evil potential of a human heart in rebellion against God.
"There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man." (Mark 7:15)
🔹 The Biblical Explanation
When Christ cast out unclean spirits or devils, He wasn’t casting out invisible spirit creatures, but the unclean desires and lusts of the flesh. Scripture equates an unclean spirit with an unregenerate man.
“And always, night and day, he was in the mountains… crying, and cutting himself with stones.” (Mk 5:5)
This man was not possessed by fallen angels, but rather overwhelmed by the lusts, greed, rage, and agony of the flesh — the very desires distributed by the daimonion nature of man
“So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.” (Rom 8:8)
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness…” (Gal 5:19)
These works are what Christ was purging from men — not spirits, but sinful fleshly desires.
🔹 What Went Into the Swine?
In Mark 5, the "legion" cast into the herd of swine was not a horde of invisible beings — it was a representation of the man's many carnal desires and unclean ways. Swine were considered unclean animals, and the story demonstrates the fleshly nature of the man being overcome and driven away.
🔹 Are Demons Real Beings?
No. The Bible never says they are real, personal beings. This belief is imported from paganism and later church traditions, particularly from Catholic doctrine, which absorbed Greek mythology where daimons were lesser gods or spirits.
The things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils… (1 Cor 10:20)
The word devils here is daimonion — not real beings, but fleshly corruptions tied to idolatry and sin.
Summary:
Demon (daimonion) = Desires of the flesh, distributor of fortunes, carnal appetites
Not fallen angels or spirit creatures
Unclean spirit = Unregenerate man
Christ cast out the inward man of sin (Rom 7:18)
Root of all evil is the heart of man, not external forces (Jam 1:14–15)
Demons, if real, would still be no match for the vile deceit of man’s own wicked heart (Jeremiah 17:9, Mk 7:15)
So by casting the desires of the flesh into the swine Christ overturned teb laws of nature. Is this shocking? Not when we see the long list of times He overturned the laws of nature before.
Donkey talking in Numbers 22:28-30
Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12-13
Egypt plagues in Exodus 7-12
Red Sea parting in Exodus 14
Manna from sky in Exodus 16
The Flood in Genesis 6-9
Burning Bush in Exodus 3:2
Jordan River parts in Joshua 3-4
Christ walks on water in Matt 14
Lazarus raised in John 11
Healed the sick all over NT
Gave sight to blind
Made crippled to walk
Christ Rose again
We could all add to this list so why is taking the desires of a man and putting them into an animal a crazy thing to grasp? He is God