Prior Book | Prior Chapter | Prior Verse | Next Verse | Next Chapter | Next Book | Viewing NASB and Amplified 2015 | |
NASB | 1 Corinthians 2:11 For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 2:11 For what person knows the thoughts and motives of a man except the man's spirit within him? So also no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. |
Bible Question:
Can Satin read our minds? Chaser. |
Bible Answer: Someone who is smarter than I am will answer the question more directly. But I will say that Satan does not need to read our minds. He knows how we think and how we are likely to act and react. Like God, he knows or frame, and he remembers we are but dust. But unlike God, he has no pity on us. Satan seems to know how the average human being will react. But he seems to also badly underestimate the power of God in us, and to have no clue what it does to our minds when we are yielded to the Spirit of God. That was the mistake he made with Job and with Jesus. Someone asks also if Satan can speak to us, and I say he does not need to do that either. He can dangle enticements in front of us and he can move other humans in their flesh to talk to us. Again, he underestimates our power to resist him. But we can, with the sword of the spirit, and he flees from us. God can read our minds (Psalm139; Jeremiah 17:10; Amos 4:13; Matthew 9:4;12:25, etc.) but there is no indication, that I am aware of, that he has given a similar power to Satan. He has not given that power to other human beings (1 Corinthians 2:11). Isn’t interesting though, that we seem to be almost able to read each other’s minds? There is a certain predictability in human behavior, and Satan is aware of it (Job 2:4). But we can fool him and defeat him by inculcating and exhibiting the mind of Christ. |
Up | Down View Branch | ID# 138615 | ||
Questions and/or Subjects for 1 Cor 2:11 | Author | ||
|
mark d seyler | ||
|
chaser | ||
|
Aixen7z4 | ||
|
kalos | ||
|
eurodave |