The Perverter: Satan

 

This is from something I am writing,

“We cannot even begin to seriously understand the devil’s schemes if we do not understand his subversive, perverse, and twisted tendencies. If we understand that in the eyes of Scripture a woman dominating her husband is as sinful as a man that is addicted to pornography, we will be better equipped to understand the range of the devil’s perversions of God’s order. The devil is not just focused on outright promotion of clear moral error, but also with subtly leading people into dangerous and subversive error. This is what he does to everything that he can.

The devil did not get rid of the idea of creator; he just replaced it with a view of chaotic randomness being creator. Who does that sound like?

The devil did not get rid of the fact that society needs a saviour, a healer; he just replaced it with the view that the state, which is supposed to be God’s servant for good, is now the saviour itself.

The devil did not get rid of the idea of the dignity of women; he just perverted it by convincing women they had to become like men and function like men to have their true dignity. In the process, he ripped apart the Western home, and has diminished both men and women.

Once we understand just how much the devil has perverted, twisted and subverted our culture, we can then look to how God’s word teaches us to address it, beginning in our own lives.”

The devil does his best deceiving by using a form a spiritual Judo. He just takes good things and slightly bends them to redirect them. Any builder knows that if you are building a foundation for a house and you begin by being 1 millimetre out of alignment, you will end up going far off track. Pilots know the same thing, if they do not put in the precise right heading, accounting for wind speed and atmospheric conditions, they will end up far from their proper destination.

Once we take into account the devil’s ways of seeking to subtly pervert everything even just a bit to send us off track, we can become more attuned to seeing him at work.