{"id":46069,"date":"2022-10-01T02:10:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/if-i-were-the-devil-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:10:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:10:47","slug":"if-i-were-the-devil-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/if-i-were-the-devil-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Were The Devil – Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"

1)<\/strong> I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;<\/p>\n

2)<\/strong> I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man’s effort, instead of God’s blessings (cf. Deuteronomy 6-8);<\/p>\n

3)<\/strong> I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around;<\/p>\n

4)<\/strong> I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;<\/p>\n

5)<\/strong> I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership (a contrasting view);<\/p>\n

6)<\/strong> I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies;<\/p>\n

7)<\/strong> I would make it socially acceptable to take one’s own life (a contrasting view), and invent machines to make it convenient;<\/p>\n

8)<\/strong> I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that life of animals are valued more than human beings (a contrasting view);<\/p>\n

9)<\/strong> I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was grounds for a lawsuit;<\/p>\n

10)<\/strong> I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I would get sports heroes to advertise them;<\/p>\n

11)<\/strong> I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the minds of every family member for my agenda;<\/p>\n

12)<\/strong> I would attack the family, the backbone of any nation. I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so does the nation;<\/p>\n

13)<\/strong> I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movies screens, and I would call it art (a contrasting view);<\/p>\n

14)<\/strong> I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marveled (a contrasting view);<\/p>\n

15)<\/strong> I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agendas as politically correct;<\/p>\n

16)<\/strong> I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, the Bible is for the naive:<\/p>\n

17)<\/strong> I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is not important (a contrasting view), and that faithfulness and obedience are optional;<\/p>\n

18)<\/strong> I guess I would leave things pretty much the way they are! (a contrasting view).<\/p>\n

Source 1; Source 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1) I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world; 2) I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man’s effort, instead of God’s blessings (cf. Deuteronomy 6-8); 3) I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around; 4) I … Continue reading “If I Were The Devil – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}