I suppose my difficulty comes in determining exactly what a demon is and looks like. By that I mean that mysterious, sinister turning toward evil that seems to possess certain people and lead them to self-destructive behavior. When I read about those young boys who opened fire at Columbine High School, I attribute their actions to the power of evil at work in our world. I might say that it was demonic, but I am not comfortable merely proclaiming that they were possessed by a demon in the manner so often used in the New Testament. I take the same attitude toward Hitler's holocaust, the terrible massacres in Rwanda and other such horrible evils in our world.
Evil is clearly loose in our world.
The writers of the Bible personalized that evil into a complex belief in demonology. My own view of evil is not quite so personalized, but still just as real. But an action doesn t have to be so horrific to be self-destructive and to be reminiscent of the demonic. I have seen people wrestle with the demon of alcoholism and drug addiction. I believe this is another of those cases where the Bible reflects the culture of the day in which it was written.