I have always thought that people take the devil too personally and when the devil is mentioned in the Bible it is usually meant in a symbolic or figurative way.

The devil is real but I do not believe that he is omnipresent or omnisient, when people sin or things go wrong the devil always gets the blame but I fail to see what he has to do with it most of the time. I am sure that the devil has better things to do than mix my socks up or cause me to eat more burgers than I should.

The "devil" lets people externalise sin and shift thge blame from themselves, Jesus needed the devil to tempt him as he was sinless, we are quite capable of sinning all on our own.

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Mike
London City Presbyterian Church
London
England

"Surely, we wish to be orthodox, but we must first learn what real orthodoxy is. Surely, we wish to be progressive, but we must first have a basis to progress from."