Sermonette: Poles Apart

Sermonette: Poles Apart

The Ploys of Satan
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Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Given 10-Aug-02; 23 minutes

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description: (hide) Richard Ritenbaugh, drawing on a concept of C.S. Lewis, asserts that Satan sends error in antithetical diametrical pairs. If we hate one extreme, we may be drawn to just as hideous an opposite extreme. Satan likes to couch things in subtle "either-or" or "all-or-nothing" propositions, starting with his pitch to Eve and moving to the false Protestant dilemma of "law or grace," "works or faith," "monotheism or polytheism," "free choice or predestination," and the seeming dilemma of "preaching the gospel or feeding the flock." We need to avoid the ditches that Satan steers us toward.