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As a deceiver, Satan has no equal. In addition to being the world's greatest con artist, he is also its most accomplished counterfeiter.
Notice Paul's warning to the Christians in Corinth: "But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted-you may well put up with it!" (2 Corinthians 11:3-4).
Here Paul describes three areas in which Satan employs clever counterfeits of the truth to deceive even Christians.
First he presents Jesus as being quite different from the Christ revealed in the Bible-in effect creating another Jesus, a false Christ. This is the Jesus most people hear about today-a counterfeit of the Jesus Christ of the Bible. Regrettably, most of Christianity is built around this false Christ.
The second of Satan's clever deceptions is to represent the natural outpouring of human emotion-or, in some cases, the direct influence of demons-as God's Spirit. Hundreds of thousands of people are deceived every year in this manner. They are impressed by what they see or feel rather than by fruits of God's Spirit as listed in Galatians 5:22-23 and by whether the accompanying teaching is indeed of God (Isaiah 8:20).
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