To my dearest child, You are now one of my own. Nothing can strip that title from you. But, be aware, the Christian walk is the most opposed walk of life and there are those who live and breed to see you lose faith. There are two ways in which I could instruct you: from my perspective or from the Enemy’s. Not for the purpose of insanity, I have decided to equip you from the perspective of the Enemy. I have inspired one of my own, C. S. Lewis, to prepare you and to teach you of your true Enemy’s ways via the instruction form Screwtape to his nephew, Wormwood. To avoid utter confusion, replace “enemy” with God and “you” with “the Enemy”. It is commonly said that the greatest lesson is one’s failure, so learn from one of our enemy’s failure.…show more content… Every person that denies Satan’s existence supports Satan. Every person that does not acknowledge Satan’s strategies also is a supporter. Some of Screwtape’s wisest words are, “It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.” Honestly, Screwtape is right; most Christians do imagine Satan placing road blocks instead of making them invisible. Another one of Screwtape’s strategies is to twist God’s gifts to man. Screwtape explains to Wormwood, “He made the pleasures: all our research so far has not enables us to produce one. All we can do is to encourage the humans to take the pleasure which our Enemy has produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has forbidden.” It’s easy to blame pleasure as the source of sin, but all Christians must remember that God created pleasure and that the Enemy twists them. Satan always works against God’s…show more content… Screwtape’s epistles express a different sort of love. Persistently, Screwtape seeks to train and instruct his nephew, but over and over again, it seems as if Wormwood fails to heed wisdom. Slowly the reader can be taken captive by Screwtape’s unique love and also by false faith. To some, Screwtape is only a lost child who is persistent purple ponies exists; even though all the rest of the world knows purple ponies do not exist, that Satan will never win. Although Screwtape’s compassion and innocence can soften one’s heart, it is such thoughts as those that blind one’s heart to the truth of the
