The Screwtape Letters and Spiritual Warfare Part 1

The Screwtape letters is a masterpiece fiction by CS Lewis, an apologetic, theologian and a novel writer. A 31-letter series of the Senior demon Screwtape to his protege demon Wormwood, mightily teaching him to live their ways. This book is coming from a vantage point that, say you're the devil, how would you attack humans and ruin them for eternity? what tactics would you use to do that?

This is mainly to correct human's fatal misunderstanding about the devil. The devil is not just about the obvious movie-like paranormal things i.e. dark presence in the room @2am, piano playing without someone manipulating, That is not the ultimate way the devil attacks, the bible said there are devil schemes (EPHESIANS 6:10), therefore they SCHEME to lure us away, to lead us far away of understanding who our God really is and the last thing he wanted to see is a life fully devoted to the purposes of God.

DEVILISH WAYS. Here are some of the ways the enemy might scheme against the Christians as taken from the book:


1. Get humans so caught up with the ordinary that they will have little time or interest to know the big thing, the supernatural, the spiritual.

2. Disillusion the new exploring Christians. Expose them to someone who is a fake, a hypocrite as a way to get them to run in a different direction.
Never let him ask what he expected Christians to look like. Work on the emotional disappointment during his first few weeks as a churchman.

3. Encourage him to be a materialist magician. Make the world the end and faith the means. Help someone to see their faith as a means to an end, just don't let faith be their end goal but a means to something else. In other words let them only think of their faith a a means top get what they really want, prosperity, their own fulfillment. In that way they will think that they are real worshipers of God, but really what they're doing is they're using God.

4. When humans are in great mood and energetic seasons of life they also have more physical appetite. Their resistance is stronger so is their senses fully awake; therefore strike with temptations.

5. Develop cynicism in your subject, nothing takes the edge of truth or any serious path than someone who has learned how to look at everything with distrust.It not only deadens relationship between humans but it deadens the intellect to actually make you feel smarter.

6. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. The big, major, life-unsettling sins are not usually what bring a person to Hell. It is the small, vague, unthinking habits of a lifetime, slowly increasing secularization and worldliness. It is the small sins, the small betrayals, which lead most inescapably to Hell.

In my words, kind of like thinking small sins are not that bad. GOD is not that mad, you know.

7.The future is the thing least like eternity. Cause someone to set his heart on the future, let the things of the future be something he chases after. the end goal of everything he wants in life.. the answer to all his problems

8. Make Jesus just a teacher, a teacher can’t be worshipped.

and a lot more..remember there were 31 letters but these are the essential ones. I urge you to read the book to know if you're still on God's side or pursuing devil's side.