What Is the Armor of God in Christianity?

What Is the Armor of God in Christianity?

Paul often used metaphors his audience would have been familiar with to explain spiritual realities. In Ephesians 6 he identifies the enemy in distinctly spiritual terms, using phrases such as “… we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,” “cosmic powers over this present darkness,” and “spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” He saw the similarity between the physical armor of Roman soldiers and the spiritual tools of war the Christia…