(September 5, 2014 at 11:07 am)Michael Wrote: It's a Friday isn't it. Well on Fridays I think of Satan as the personification of Temptation, something inside all of us. On Saturdays I think of him as real.
Sorry, that's rather glib. But not too far from the truth :-)
I probably have a lot more Fridays than Saturdays. But there are times when what I hear on the news makes me wary of rejecting the idea of a real evil force (something beyond mental illness). Thankfully I have never encountered such evil, and am quite sure that all my own sins are truly mine and stem from me.
So what to make of the biblical Satan is not an essential question for your theology? Good. It certainly isn't anything that keeps me up at night either.
