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All he can do is twist, distort, damage and destroy the good things God has created\u2013and this is one of the reasons why his evil is s profound and elemental.<\/p>\n
Think about it for a moment: each of the seven deadlines are\u00a0\u00a0a good thing twisted. Greed is the proper love of wealth and material goods twisted into idolatry. Lust is the proper love and affection and desire to procreate twisted into selfishness and self love. Pride\u00a0is proper self esteem twisted into egocentric self love and willfulness. Wrath\u00a0is proper indignation and longing for justice twisted into fear and self righteousness. Sloth is the proper love of rest and leisure twisted into depression and inertia. Gluttony is the proper love of food and drink and conviviality twisted into selfish addiction and Envy is the proper love of neighbor twisted into loathing and hatred.<\/p>\n
Everything on offer from the world, the flesh and the devil is similarly nothing but a good thing twisted, deformed and then dressed up to look good.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a pig with lipstick.<\/p>\n
This is why sin is ultimately unsatisfying\u2013because it is a fake. It is like counterfeit money. You can have all the fake hundred dollar bills in the world, but in the end their fake.<\/p>\n
So it is with sin. You can have all the money, sex, food, drink, pleasure an power the world has to offer, but it is all fake, and that is why you end up wanting more and more.<\/p>\n
You are convinced it\u00a0will\u00a0<\/em>satisfy, and then when it doesn\u2019t instead of questioning the fake pleasure itself you fall into the trap of saying, \u201cI guess I\u2019m still unhappy because I didn\u2019t get enough of that pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s what we call addictive behavior and its a kind of insanity.<\/p>\n Its the kind of insanity Satan loves. He loves nothing better than for us to get addicted to some false drug of a pleasure which we keep going back to again and again in the empty hope that it will satisfy us.<\/p>\n Sin? There\u2019s nothing original about it.<\/p>\n Satan\u2019s a con artist. He\u2019s the father of lies. He\u2019s the twister of truth. He\u2019s the polluter of purity, the destroyer\u00a0of beauty and the betrayer of all that is good.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 All he can do is twist, distort, damage and destroy the good things God has created\u2013and this is one of the reasons why his evil is s profound and elemental. Think about it for a moment: each of the seven deadlines are\u00a0\u00a0a good thing twisted. Greed is the proper love of wealth and material […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19773","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n