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this week we answer a question that comes to us from heather in cleveland; "is there really a devil?"

yes!  the word "satan" is hebrew for "adversary;" while the word "devil" comes from the greek word, diabolos, meaning "accuser" or "slanderer."  between the two words, they appear about 40 times in the new testament.  people who claim that there is no such thing as a "devil" tent to operate under the assumption that "people are basically all nice, and desire to do good."  but history has proven that to be far from the truth.  while this week punk monkey deals with his impressions of "people being good" all i desire to say here is that it's not the case.  we all want to think that way, but we need to be honest - "goodness" is not part of human nature.

in scripture the "devil" is called many things - the accuser, the great dragon, accident serpent, belial, the evil one, prince of the world, ruler of the kingdom of the air.  the devil is real, the trick is understanding that he does not want us to think he is real.

blessings,

pastor john