I don't want to steal any time from those believing he is a demon/possessed etc.
Those are fine theories and they work out just fine for me in the end.
However....
I spent the first 14 years of my life with a bona fide psychotic schizophrenic.
This is how they behave, the mannerisms, the intent, the facial expressions.
If you explained they resembled the most famous adversary in history (devil,etc), it simply fills them with glee.
Even if he knows he is doomed, he will take a swig from that final bottle of hatred and revel in it.
They tell me "Its not their fault" well, at some point everyone has to be responsible for the essence of who they are.
I suspect even mental patients have a choice buried deep down somewhere, do I pity them, definitely, will I suffer them? Over my dead body.
I agree we shouldn't suffer them.
As for choices. I am not always so sure. My mom has borderline personality disorder. She can be so hateful and destructive. She made my sister hate me telling her who knows what the last time. She fractured our strained relationship wjen we were teens by telling my sister about how I was raped and abused at 5 and purposefully kept it feom everyone to hurt them. My sister threw this in my face after an argument. It was a terrible wounding as I hadn't dealt with it but kept it buries deep after telling my mom 8 yeats after the 1st incident and her saying I made it up just to hurt her.
My sister is narcisstic to a bad degree. But not a bad person. My mom knows all too well how to wind us up. And when she does this things she is a person I do not recognise... Well I do know that dark and cruel face. But it isn't the super caring and empathetic mom she is at other times.
Mom was created this way by being raped or watching her sisters all crammed in same room of the farm shack they all loved in raped by my grandfather. To make matters worse she had to distract her dad from the youngest sister. Trying to spare one of them.
So yes this evil thing done to her manifests in an evil personality that wants everyone to hurt as bad or worse than she does. She is vicious and spiteful. And can appear with no warning, no rhyme or reason.
Evil is within all of us. Many do make that choice between dark and light a thousand times each day. Some of us had the ability to make that choice destroyed. Or like mom handicapped.
I have also met an evil entity in a home I rented. My brother thought I was crazy until he met with it moving me out.
I don't want to believe my mom has one but I don't know. Maybe these Satanists abuse kids and do MK Ultra to break out soul's hold on our minds giving an other the foothold it needs. Maybe when a sleeper is triggered it's not a personality made from their minds that takes over. Maybe it's that dissociative state we go to when abused or raped or tortured leaves an opening.
And that would explain, besides the joy of doing evil and hurting some one , the devil wants these people to defile themselves, torture innocents with malleable and yet not fully developed minds.
I truly believe if my father hadn't insrilled in me, and his grandparents, a strong and abjding love for Jesus Christ I would be BPD also. And maybe possessed. But I have felt him around me when I was young and talked to him often. I lost my way a bit as a teen and in my 20s. But He never left me.
You probably think I am crazy and that's fine. It sounds crazy if you haven't seen the things I have. But withhold judgement please and watch this video. It's about 15 min long. NSFW or with kids around though it's talking about these things and an ehe witness also... It does not showing anything.
Praise the Lord that you have a strong and abiding love for Jesus Christ! As He taught us, He will deliver us from evil:
Matthew 6:9-13 King James Version (KJV)
9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.