Winners and Losers.

Selling your soul to the devil does not guarantee success.

Plenty of people who have tried to do this have failed.

In the Bible the devil shows Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and says to him: "'To you I will give all their glory and all this authority, for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please.  If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.'"  Luke 4: 6 (NRSV)

So they think that they can have whatever they want.

But this is a lie.

Success in this world comes from talent and commitment.

It is not a gift of some fictitious devil.

The devil does not exist in reality. 

The devil is an idea based in Dualism.

And Dualism is not factual.

There is only one supernatural power and that is God.

And God is good.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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