Surely the current ridicule and skepticism with which he is viewed must please him deeply. As long as he isn’t taken seriously, he is free to work his evil. After all, if you can’t diagnose the source of your ills, how can you fight them? The devil wants to make your life a mess and to keep his name out of it. But God doesn’t let him do so. The Bible traces Satan’s activities to a moment of rebellion that occurred sometime between the creation of the universe and the appearance of the snake in the garden. When God created the world, “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good” (Gen.
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