Sometimes I believe that some people can initiate an evil without the devil directly getting involved but because he fathered evil—in fact “evil” is one letter short of “devil”—every act of wickedness is attributed to the devil.
The devil is ‘rightly’ blamed for all evil.
It is this way: recently, as I was writing a manuscript, I formulated an idea that I thought was my original. I thought no-one had ever formulated it like that before. I was surprised when I incidentally picked a book where somebody had given an exact formulation. I could easily have been accused of plagiarising. I didn’t drop the formulation but I attributed it to the person who went to print with the formulation before me.
Even if you can come up with your own idea, it will only be yours if someone had not come up with it before. If it had been articulated earlier, it becomes the ‘property’ of the person who first came up with it.
The Bible implies that Satan is the author of all evil. The package of sin that the devil initiated carried all manner of sins you could think of. This is why any evil people make are all referenced back to the devil. So, go ahead, blame the devil but know for sure that you’ll be busted for all that you allow him to accomplish through you. People who initiate evil and feel assuaged after blaming the devil for it, it doesn’t help, or does it?
But we can do better. Let us shun evil. Blaming the devil will not help us. We must resist him.
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