Building on Volker Gäckle, Die
Starken und die Schwachen in Korinth und in Rom (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004), Ro Mody, who
came to Christ from Zoroastrianism and is now a clergyman in the Church of
England, explores this possibility
Krishna, for example, seems to be a spiritually real and living god who will bring blessing if worshipped but it may be a fictitious role played by a demon in order to deceive the worshippers of Krishna. The cult image of Krishna may be the image of the disguise of a demon, and to worship Krishna’s cult image would be to worship the cult image of a demon in disguise.
Like an actor playing a role or a spy taking on a false
identity.
Today it would mean that Allah, Buddah, etc. are fictitious roles played by demons in order to trick their worshippers into false worship.
This would mean that demons are able to co-opt religious
worship “in order to bring pagan worshippers under their sphere of power or
influence.”
Empty
and Evil: The worship of other faiths in 1 Corinthians 8-10 and today
(Latimer Studies 71; 2010), citations from pages 29-31
