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1 | Can satan read our mind. | Eph 4:18 | kalos | 40226 | ||
"the Father who knows all hearts" Romans 8:27 (NLT) And the Father who knows all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will. "Satan can not read our minds, but he can read our hearts"? I think not. It is God, the Father, -- GOD not Satan -- who knows all hearts. Is Satan equal to God that he, too, can read our hearts? I think not. To attribute to Satan a power that the Bible plainly says belongs to God is tantamount to blasphemy. Scripture, not opinion, best answers the questions posted to this forum. |
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2 | Can satan read our mind. | Eph 4:18 | popdzl | 40642 | ||
Kalos, if you were to read all the scripture that speaks of the heart in conjunction with evil viz. Satan, you may find that evil manifests itself through the thoughts or desires of the heart. One does not commit an act of sin or wickedness until the desire is in one's heart. Because Satan has a certain ability to do something does not make him equal to God. I did not infer or imply that in my previous answer. Futhermore, if we look closer into Romans 8:27, we see that God has the ability to know "ALL" hearts whereas Satan only knows the heart of the sinful and wicked which all of us have been to a certain degree or another at one point in our lives. When our hearts become pure, Satan no longer has the ability to read them. Just as when you read my previous response, your heart was filled with some unpure emotion (probably pride), and Satan, seeing this emotion, used you to write a response filled with language which would have provoked my feelings of pride and caused me to strike back at you. However, through the grace of God and the power of discernment, his plan is thrawted. |
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3 | Can satan read our mind. | Eph 4:18 | srbaegon | 40643 | ||
Hello popdzl Because God knows all hearts does not infer that Satan knows the sinful and wicked hearts. You'll need to give us some Scripture to back your thesis. Steve |
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4 | Can satan read our mind. | Eph 4:18 | popdzl | 42030 | ||
Steve, I would like to thank you for note based on intellect and not emotion. I must confess that I had never read that Satan has the ability to read our hearts; an ordained minister told me that once, so I took it to heart. Your note has caused me to research (which I love) the subject, and although I have not found any verses which specifically states that Satan can read hearts, I have come up with many verses which expound on the relation of the heart to evil, sinful, and wicked thoughts. However, with your note in mind, I wanted to show a correlation between the heart and the devil. Before I go further, I would like to state a few postulates which I took as givens. 1) The flesh is man's sinful nature. 2) The devil is the source of all sin and wickedness. 3)The heart is the fertile ground in which both righteousness or evil are able to flourish. With these postulates in hand, let's go to the scripture. In Prov 6:18, Gen 6:5, and Gen 8:21, we see that the heart devises wicked imaginations. Jeremiah 4:14 shows that vain thouhgts lodge within the heart, and Jeremiah 17:9 goes on to state that the heart is "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." In conclusion, in light of these, and other scripture, I believe that if Satan can not read the hearts of the sinful, he definitely knows the sinful and wicked thoughts before they enter one's heart. Either way, I believe it amounts to the same thing i.e. Satan knowing the heart of the wicked. |
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