How Smart is the Devil?
Not very. He’s going up against the God of the Universe, but he must like a challenge and he gets a lot of mini-wins, which has to be a boost to his ego. What does this say about us?
The devil is very cunning however. He convinces believers that Hell and the devil do not exist. He convinces unbelievers that they are gods.
St. Michael, defend us in battle…
Very, so don’t think you can outsmart him with out help from Jesus Christ 
Absolutely! The Devil wants us to think that he is ficticious or that he has more power than God. Both false of course.
He is so deceptive that he’s got 99% of Catholics believing that Francis is the Vicar of Christ.
“A Church In Crisis” by Ralph Martin , is a book worth reading . Information about Francis Bergollio , will help get into clarification, with so much more .
Smart but yet not smart…it alldepends on our own views of just what we know about the whole world religion as history.
Honestly, i would have to disagree. Satan is not neccessaryily going up against God, his main objective is to get as many of us to go to hell with him as a possible, enticing us to sin. I think he is very crafty and in a sense, smart.
The Devil doesn’t have to be smart. It is us that run into his arms. Jesus says clearly, we either serve God, or we serve Mammon. Mammon is another word for “the Devil”. It’s one or the other. Because they are mutually exclusive. For one who is giving his heart to God, the Devil cannot approach such a person. The Devil only moves in when we let go of our living sense of communion with God, when we give him a chance to get his foot in the door. We end up serving either God or Mammon. There is no neutral ground. That’s why we have to try to “love God with all of our heart, all of our strength”. Being a church member is good. But not enough to protect us from the Devil. The Devil goes to church also. We can meet him there. Sometimes he has sex with children, right in the church.
In heaven there are are no self-centered desires. All anyone in heaven desires is the pleasure of the Lord. But here on earth, we are filled with self-centered desires, the desires of the flesh, the desires of the senses. Sometimes it is called love; but it is only for the body of the other gender that we want to touch. Real love has no sense of direction. One who loves God, loves all of God’s children. One who doesn’t love all of God’ s children, doesn’t love God yet. One who loves God bears no judgement against anyone. He sees the sinner as a man or woman in trouble, and has compassion, and prays for them. One who judges others is already in the grip of the Devil.
I am only saying what I believe………even if I am not able to live this way ……yet.
So that’s what the Devil does? He convinces me that I’m a God?
Well, I don’t worship demons nor do I evoke demons. We are all God’s and Goddesses, and we’re all constantly shaping reality. This isn’t something I just made up one day, I was given tons of proof that we’re all Creators. I can prove to myself I’m a Creator. I don’t have a criminal record, I haven’t gotten away with murder nor do I plan on murdering anyone. I don’t experience terrible horrible things. I don’t hear from my loved ones that they’re hearing growls or snarls or having weird messed-up metaphysical experiences.
It’s funny cause people think I dabble in witchcraft or that I’m secretly making demonic pacts with others. All I’m doing is using the gifts that are essentially my birthright. That’s all I’m doing. And I’m not doing it all the time, it’s been years since I’ve done something amazing, but I can do it at anytime.
If what I was doing was truly demonic, then how come it helps people? My Aunt, who practically believes in the same things as me, has healing hands and has healed many people with her hands. And most people would consider her demonic just by what she believes in. She can even heal people remotely.
My Aunt and I both believe in God, but the difference between what my Aunt and I believe and what Lucifer believed are 2 different things. We may believe that men are God’s and women are Goddesses, but we both don’t believe we can do better than God. We just simply believe we are gifted and we use those gifts to help further huemanity. And, if it means that what we do is “demonic” or “evil”, then so be it. I guess we’ll just be a couple of evil and nasty people and help out the hueman race.
It’s just odd to me how people love to push people away and not unite for a common cause. Is this what your God wants? To divide us over something silly like religion? It’s bad enough people are already divided over something as simple as hair color, and now we’re gonna divide people on what it is they believe? What’s next, what they eat for dinner?
I hope if ya’ll see me next time you get out your torch and pitchforks…I might just curse you with my fake magic LOL!
Like you said, Satan isn’t smarter than God but he is definitely smarter than humans. He deceives humans in so many ways, makes them believe that he is a fictional character, makes people believe that we don’t need God or that he isn’t real, he gives people so much pride (Satan’s favourite sin and most underestimated in my opion) that they think they’re Gods, he leads people to commit all kinds of sins (all sin comes from Satan), he introduces false ideologies and beliefs to people and society, he lies as the bible says Satan is the father of lies. He will lay out 95% truth in order to feed a 5% lie, he can be very subtle and is very cunning in his evil schemes.
Every person has sinned in one way or another, we’ve all been deceived by Satan at one stage or another. Our minds alone are no match for the evil one. Man alone cannot defeat Satan in this spiritual war, thats why we must wear the armour of God, as described by St Paul in Ephesians 6:13-17
“13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.”
May Gods armour be with us all along with His peace and grace
In context, Satan is similar to a criminal (Christ said that he is a “murderer from the beginning”) in that criminals are not smart (even the safe-crackers) because if they were, they would know that crime doesn’t pay. Satan has already lost and part of everyone’s road to glory is to ignore him - great future 
Satan is called not only ‘the tempter’ but ‘the accuser’ and ‘the adversary’ and the latter in mind in particular calls us to be wary at the least. He is the genius predictor and will study your movements in order to trip you up.
He also heads up the freemasons, as well as satanists and other cults and is the end-result for witches and soothsayers, and, as always, is both hoofs in with socialism.
Our three enemies are the world, the flesh and the devil. And the devil is our ancient enemy and can attack via pride and which can bring about any other number of temptations which we would not necessarily assume had anything to do with pride, i.e. he can talk you into a temptation without you feeling desire for that particular type of sin (various categories of lust at his disposal, e.g. power, money, ambition, physical stuff, material gain, etc…) - this is relational non-filial communication on the preternatural level between Satan and human-beings, where he attacks between the intellect and our emotions. Words not understood by the human mind, except by way of the temptation in itself. There is a power, a force behind any type of temptation, and which is demonic, while in the case of Satan vs Eve, there were human words and two-way communication (actual dialogue) and so possibly meaning that the power of the temptation was in its subtlety. The reason the means to temptation with Eve would have differed as with those in Salvation History in regards to the use of human words is because Adam and Eve were innocent, in a pure state, and so Satan had no window of the sub-conscious to dive into and attack on that level and in so doing then able to make ill of any psychological vulnerabilities.
While we do not have to be obsessed on the topic, one doesn’t have an enemy and ignore the fact. You make sure you are aware of who is who and of what they are capable.
Smart enough that most of sin daily. He often poses as Jesus before us and we think that a thought or action is good until it is done, when the true colors are released. Saten disguised himself as a serpent in the Garden of Eden and he continues to disguise himself today in things that are pleasurable to us.
It is vital that we seek out Christ and trust in him, for we cannot walk this path alone, or else we will ultimately fail.
