Are our actions influenced by our carnality or Satan?

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I was following the thread by Bro. Strange - "Any One Know What This Scripture Means?"

Being that a lot of things are being discussed there, I especially wanted to focus on this portion of the discussion.

I was reading in Acts 5, concerning Ananias and Sapphira. I found it interesting that Peter would say in Acts 5:3, "But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

I heard Jeff Arnold saying, once, that we didn't understand. It is the Devil that is working with people's minds.

It seems, IMO, that we would normally view Ananias and Sapphira as just being selfish and carnal, but the Bible says that "Satan filled their hearts to lie.""

So, is everything we do influenced by Satan?

Here's a post I was working off of - courtesy of Digging!




Thanks for the imput!

IMO, they sre simply trying to minimize the work of satan in order to wiggle out of the implications of Bro. Strange's original posts.

Fact be known, they probably preach all the time that the golden calf worship was demonic in nature...but BS painted himself into a corner and they won't admit it!