The Devil Didn't Make Them, They Chose!

The devil wanted to be like God and was thrown out of heaven because of his pride.

He was not satisfied with destroying himself he had to work to destroy others too.

He came to Eve to convince her that she could be like God. Appealing to her emotions and her pride he was able to get her to disobey God.

This is the tactic the devil is still using today, only he cloaked it in happy sounding verbiage to fool undiscerning people into believing it was a good thing; the teaching of self esteem. This was the trick of the devil to get people to focus on self and become unteachable.

This is how the narcissist operates. They hate that you are empathetic and kind, so they poke at you over and over again hoping to bring out the worst in you to be able to say; "see how you are."

The devil and the narcissist work in tandem, feeding off of one another's evil to ruin another person to remain elevated in their own eyes.

The devil goes before the throne of God every day accusing the brethren of evil, the evil that the devil is doing but the brethren are not. Yes the brethren are not sinless but they would like to be. The devil accuses the brethren of past forgiven sins to ruin them.

God wants us to surround ourselves with those who understand His principles, His ways, His love. The more we are with good, kind, loving people who love God, the stronger we become.

The narcissist seeks to destroy our resolve and our strength through emotional attacks that bring out in us, those things that we are desiring for the Lord to extinguish.

Romans 1:18-24 "18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
19 because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen."

No! The devil didn't make them do it or anything else, they chose to listen to the devil and refused to listen to God.