Man's Natural Inclinations.

Devil comes from a Greek word diabolos meaning literally a 'false accuser'. It also translated 'slanderer' (in 1 Timothy 3:11; 2 Timothy 3:1-3). It is roughly equal to the Hebrew satan meaning an 'adversary', and the two words are usually interchangeable (see John 6:70; Revelation 12:9). (See SATAN).

Otherwise 'devil' and 'satan' are used in the Bible as terms for evil in human form, indulged in individually, as a group, or as a human organisation. They are not persons, but personifications of the power of sin at work in us (see Romans 5:21; 6:23).

The Bible tells us that the Lord Jesus Christ "…shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death-that is the devil-and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death." (Hebrews 2:14-15).

The devil is the human part of our character, which naturally opposes God.

(See also SATAN).

Damnation
Darkness
Day and Night
Deacon
Death
Demon Possessed
Demons
Deuteronomy
Devil
Disciple
Divination
Dragon