How does satan do it?

Question

I always get lots of answers telling me stuff like "No silly, that's satan's work!"

How exactly does he work? What does he do? What are his tricks?

And is it described in the Bible how satan works, like a sort of warning to all of us? Or can we just use "no silly, that's satan's work" at our own convenience?

Answer 1

People can perceive Satan anywhere if they look hard enough. (The Puritans didn't disappear, you know.)

Rock music, Harry Potter books, even rainbows and stuffed unicorns... all potentially evil when viewed through a certain lens.

What a sad world these people must live in.

Answer 2

Read your KJV bible. A tree is known by the fruit that it bears, A good tree cannot bear bad fruit. The works of the flesh are manifest.....We are not ignorant of the devil's devices, if we are walking in the light of the spirit of the living Almighty God. This is the devils world, the earth and the fullness thereof are the Lord's, but he has in his allowed the devil some rope if you will. Satan is a dog on a leash, he is judged and sentence, but loosed a little season to bring sin to its fullness so the wrath of God can be poured out on the ungodly. Praise ye the Lord.

Answer 3

The first answer made me laugh. I have got to get to bed. But briefly Satan is an angelic being and has high intelligence and works on human imagination and senses and to the degree that humans surrender to Satan's manipulations, the greater Satan's influence over them. Satan goes about roaring as a lion seeking whom he may devour. Believe it or not.

Answer 4

Satan is the father of lies. He seeks to deceive mankind into believing in anything else but God. He causes confusion and strife, divisions and hate. He tries to imitate God. He is known as the Accuser. He also comes as an angel of light, pretending under false pretenses in order to deceive.
A good book for you to read would be The Screw-tape Letters written by one of the greatest theologian and author, C.S.Lewis.
It is about the workings of the demons from thier point of view and how they see us.

Answer 5

It started with one of the angels developed a desire to rule over others and thus turned against God. Later this angel became known as Satan the Devil. (Revelation 12:9) During the 16 centuries after he deceived Eve, Satan succeeded in turning away from God nearly all humans except a few faithful ones, such as Abel, Enoch, and Noah.—Hebrews 11:4, 5, 7.

In Noah’s day, other angels rebelled against Jehovah. They left their place in God’s heavenly family, came down to the earth, and took on fleshly bodies. Why? We read at Genesis 6:2: “The sons of the true God began to notice the daughters of men, that they were good-looking; and they went taking wives for themselves, namely, all whom they chose.” But Jehovah God did not allow the actions of these angels and the resulting corruption of mankind to go on. He brought upon the earth a global flood that swept away all wicked humans and preserved only his faithful servants. (Genesis 7:17, 23) Thus, the rebellious angels, or demons, were forced to abandon their fleshly bodies and return to heaven as spirit creatures. They put themselves on the side of the Devil, who became “the ruler of the demons.”—Matthew 9:34.

When the disobedient angels returned to heaven, they were treated as outcasts, like their ruler, Satan. (2 Peter 2:4) Although they are now unable to take on human bodies, they still exercise a very bad influence over humans. In fact, with the help of these demons, Satan “is misleading the entire inhabited earth.” (Revelation 12:9; 1 John 5:19) How? Mainly, the demons use methods designed to mislead people. (2 Corinthians 2:11) Let us consider some of these methods.

To mislead people, the demons use spiritism. The practice of spiritism is involvement with the demons, both in a direct way and through a human medium. The Bible condemns spiritism and warns us to keep free from everything connected with it. (Galatians 5:19-21) Spiritism does for the demons what bait does for fishermen. A fisherman uses a variety of baits to catch various kinds of fish. Similarly, wicked spirits use different forms of spiritism to bring all sorts of people under their influence.

One type of bait used by the demons is divination. What is divination? It is an attempt to find out about the future or about something unknown. Some forms of divination are astrology, the use of tarot cards, crystal gazing, palmistry, and the search for mysterious omens, or signs, in dreams. Although many people think that practicing divination is harmless, the Bible shows that fortune-tellers and wicked spirits work together. For instance, Acts 16:16-18 mentions “a demon of divination” that enabled a girl to practice “the art of prediction.” But she lost this ability when the demon was cast out of her.

Another way that the demons mislead people is by encouraging them to inquire of the dead. People grieving over the death of a loved one are often deceived by wrong ideas about those who have died. A spirit medium may give special information or may speak in a voice that seems to be that of a dead person. As a result, many people become convinced that the dead are really alive and that contacting them will help the living to endure their grief. But any such “comfort” is really false as well as dangerous. Why? Because the demons can imitate the voice of a dead person and give a spirit medium information about the one who died. (1 Samuel 28:3-19) Moreover, as we learned in Chapter 6, the dead have ceased to exist. (Psalm 115:17) So “anyone who inquires of the dead” has been misled by wicked spirits and is acting contrary to the will of God. (Deuteronomy 18:10, 11; Isaiah 8:19) Therefore, be careful to reject this dangerous bait used by the demons.

Wicked spirits not only mislead people but also frighten them. Today, Satan and his demons know that they have only “a short period of time” left before they are put out of action, and they are now more vicious than ever. (Revelation 12:12, 17) Even so, thousands of people who once lived in daily dread of such wicked spirits have been able to break free. How did they do this? What can a person do even if he is already involved in spiritism? Look in God's word the Bible for the answers.

Answer 6

He is all about mind controll. First he introduces pot and trys to convince you that communism is good. If that doesn't work then he trys to convert you to islam. If all else fails then he trys to convert you to socialism and the democratic party. Along with pot he trys to control peolpe with free love and social sevices. The people he conquers get hell on earth like the jews in the concentration camps during WWII and the Romanians under marxist rule.

Answer 7

One has to be very careful in his words , thoughts , and deeds .Satan works through these also.
Sometimes he'll come as an angel of light .
He has more than 1000000000000001 ways to corrupt us .

Answer 8

Simple, anything or anyone that goes against the will of God (according to the bible) is Satan's work.

Anything or Anyone that draws people AWAY from God is Satan's work.

Answer 9

anythin that goes against the words of the Catholic's God is the Work of the Catholic's Satan.. and it goes just the same with other religion.

Answer 10

he never gets his own hands dirty, he will suggest someting, or just make you aware of something tempting, the actual sin is still our choice to do.

Temptation. If we did not had free will, temptation would not exist.

The Bilble tells us that he walks around like a roaring lion, waiting to devour its prey.....
Meaning:
Roaring - Just making the statement (planting the idea of sin),
Waiting - For us to do the sin (because of our free will),
Why - For he only has authority over us when we commit sin.