(August 3, 2013 at 12:46 am)BadWriterSparty Wrote: So if Satan doesn't deceive people when they pray (for which there is no basis to believe he couldn't except your own feelings on this, GC) then where else does he get his chance to lie? Does he walk down the street in broad daylight, whispering to people? "Psst...by the way, the sky is actually made of water." Sounds pretty ineffective to me. People can make bad choices all on their own; why is Satan necessary?
Satan is not an omniscient omnipresent being, he has to pick his battles, so he fries the big fish, small mullets like yourself are of no real concern to him, your doing yourself in, so why does he need to worry about you. Besides you've bought into one of the big fish, he cast a large net getting many at one time.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
