Satan, also known as the devil, and sometimes also called lucifer in christianity, is an entity in the abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood.

A devil is the personification of evil as it is conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.

• Be Reconciled to God
• Meditate on God's Word
• Deny Ungodliness and Cultivate Godliness
• Avoid Tempting Situations
• Be Transparent to God and Others

The pact can be either oral or written. An oral pact may be made by means of invocations, conjurations, or rituals to attract the demon, once the conjurer thinks the demon is present, they ask for the wanted favour and offer their soul in exchange, and no evidence is left of the pact.

For god cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone” (james 1:13). But it is true that god tests us — that is, he allows us to get into situations where we must make a choice between right and wrong.

It occurs historically in many contexts and cultures, and is given many different names—satan, lucifer, beelzebub, mephistopheles, iblis—and attributes: it is portrayed as blue, black, or red, it is portrayed as having horns on its head, and without horns, and so on.

The christian bible exercises 'the dominant influence upon ideas about god and evil in the western world.' in the old testament, evil is understood to be an opposition to god as well as something unsuitable or inferior such as the leader of the fallen angels satan in the new testament the greek word poneros is used to.

Idiom. Informal. Used in speech to say that someone one has been talking about has unexpectedly appeared. 'well, speak of the devil! We were just talking about you.

In the bible, my enemy is someone who does not like me, someone who wants to do me harm, never someone i don't like or to whom i want to do harm. Jesus doesn't allow us to be that way. In fact, he said we are to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us (mt 5:44.