Jesus said: "'If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.'" John 8:31,32 (NRSV)
But "'if you cannot accept my word. You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father's desires.'" John 8:43,44 (NRSV)
Jesus uses hyperbole to illustrate his point.*
Many today love the devil - they love: money, fame, power, possessions, status, success.....
And they use: violence, hate, and evil to get them.
They are children of the devil.
And the truth is not in them.
(*NB. The devil is used in a figurative sense not a literal sense.)
[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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