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Such a contrived notion. If only people actually understood what the devil actually is. Even your run of the mill demons wouldn't inspire you to kill. That doesn't serve their purpose.
The purpose is to secure souls through the most basic fundamentals of human nature. Greed, lust, envy, sloth, pride, wrath and gluttony.
You make your faustian deal and the cost comes at bringing more to make those same deals. Not to go and end them or some form of demonic possession.
They gain nothing from possessing you and forcing you to go kill. No, they give you the cure to your conscience and the dilemma of morality. You go forth to commit that which you seek. Unhindered by the rational voices of the mind. So that you may do you deed without fear of it being evil.
Whether that means stepping on someone to get a leg up in your job, or a few frisky weekends with your best friend's partner, or whatever.
The devil never made you do anything, He just gave you the permission you refused to give yourself. That's all. He nor his demons need possess you, why would they? Possessing you means that God knows it wasn't actually you behind the wheel. Even if no one else knows, God knows.
So that soul wouldn't be led to condemnation, because of that fact. So it doesn't serve to possess someone and force them to commit atrocities.
However, giving them that nudge to go and do these things. That permission to be that cold, callous person that only seeks to destroy for personal gain. Now that! That would condemn a soul to hell, because God knows it was you behind the wheel. It was your choosing, your desire, your lust for whatever it may be, revenge, money, sex, whatever.
Because you corrupted your soul, not the devil. The devil just gave you what you needed to actually go through with it. That one vital piece that was missing because the morality of it was an obstacle you couldn't overcome for yourself.
So no, the devil will not possess you. Nor will his demons. The better question becomes why on earth Hollywood would want you to believe that?
Because then people can have an excuse, they can say "the devil made me do it". Because they saw it in a movie somewhere and that was where that faustian deal was struck. Hollywood led you right to the door and you signed that contract faster than even your brain could register. That immediate weight of morality off your shoulders. You now had your reason, your excuse and now you are free to go do as you please.
Which is all the devil really wants from you. Lucifer wants you to go about life experiencing pleasure and comfort. Because in doing so, you're much more likely to give in to any of these sins.
You open yourself to being condemned by living on the edge of emotional highs. Whatever way gets you that since of euphoric freedom from the voices in your head that tell you "this is wrong".
The devil never made you do anything.
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