The devil didn’t make him do it. Neither did a demon. Joe or his advisors did it.
If the the devil could make you do something there would be no such thing as sin.
“If the the devil could make you do something there would be no such thing as sin.”
Interesting.
“Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”
What is temptation? What is evil? Are they the Satan? Or manifestations thereof?
Are satan and devils different from another?
Is satan different than what religion has pigeonholed and taught us to believe? The strict definition according to Strong’s concordance is diverse from the supposed singularity.
And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. (Mark 5:2-5)
One who became possessed can do things beyond his control, and even his normal power, but one is accountable for what ever choices one made that resulted in this condition, in himself or others.
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. (Romans 7:15-18)
In this case one is seeking to overcome some form of iniquity, but without the Spirit we lack the power. But again, we are accountable for what ever choices one made that resulted in this condition, as well as for not taking advantage of the grace of God offered to overcome it.