The Conversion
"Let me just tell you a little about the devil first, so that you've got a clear picture in your mind of what we are praying against. First of all the Bible does not paint him as a horned creature with horns and a forked tail. That's the sort of thing that makes us laugh at him, take him less than seriously. See, the Bible says he is a real person. The Bible never calls the devil it, always he. Next the Bible says that he has a heart and a mind and a will, and if a heart and a mind and a will don't make a personality, I don't know what does. It talks about the devil's feelings, talks about his thoughts, and it talks about his motives, and that means to me, a person. So the devil is not just a kind of vague word to sum up all forces of evil in the world. No, he is a person in his own right and if there were no human beings at all, Satan would still exist. Now Jesus himself took Satan desperately seriously, He never made a ...