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
Peace to all,
Eve became to know like God from eating the fruit, and She never died, just like the Serpant said. Surely you will never die?
The Earliest Church was salvation through Animal Sacrifice from the Faith of Abraham, I believe and was the “Chosen” Living Sacrifice of Animals through the Ark of the Old Covenent for the Picked to Carry Hebrews out of Egypt to Jerusalem, I beieve.
God always says, “I will “Choose” The Living Sacrifice” and even from the Garden to Adam and Eve from their failed attempt for salvation with a fig leaf in a manmade solution in salvation through the Fig Leaf not able to properly Hide the sin, “Why are you hiding?” says God from a manmade attemp not being able to be properly forgiven, properly absolved, I believe.
Those picked to carry the “Chosen” New living Sacrifice is through the Ark of the New Covenent, for all becoming through both natures, from the spirit through the life in One Divine Family One God in being, OMNiLogically.
We are not arguing The Faith from Abraham, we are not judging only generalizing for all becoming again One Family, One Divine Family One God in being through the faith logically, OMNiLogically.
The God from the Faith of Abraham resurrects from the spirit nature out of The Bosom of Abraham for those awaiting becoming through the life nature becoming in One Temple “In The Christ” for all mankind becoming again glorified and transfigured in One Family in the New Promise Land, OMNiLogically.
Peace always,
Stephen
