Satan can tempt us to commit sin but, ordinarily speaking, the choice to commit sin and the culpability for the sin is ours. We remain free to reject his temptations. To say that “The devil made me do it” is an excuse, indeed one might say the Original Excuse (Gen. 3:11-13).
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