I think I'm fixed on the idea of how one is fooled and deceived. How many times have you been swindled by someone (i.e. purchasing something from a store, getting tickets from a scalper, or an umbrella in Amsterdam that happens to have a hole in it for 12 Euros)? The best trick the devil can play on anyone is to be a master of deception – transforming himself into something beautiful / attractive / familiar. It scares me to think about how this always happens at a such a higher level (in politics, government, military) and over issues that affect so many millions of others.
This begs the question: How do we avoid being deceived? What ways can we have better discernment between good and evil? Do we have the capacity to?
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I think it is interesting that people tend to forget that side of the devil. We forget that part of the deception is attraction. How does the devil gain your trust? What is the lure?
ReplyDeleteAnd yes...what do we rely on to avoid deception? instinct?