"But I fear; lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ"(2 Cor. 11:3).
Satan is the most subtle creature in the world; he has had 6000 years of experience in deceiving, beguiling, and destroying men's souls. Only God knows more about man than Satan, and no man can stand toe to toe with the devil and win. Satan's master plan is to make men religious without knowing and being united to Christ by faith. If he does not succeed in getting a man religious without Christ, he will try to draw him away from the simplicity which is in Christ and Him crucified. He has also succeeded if he can get our minds off Christ and on faults and failures of those in the church, and causes these things to hinder us in such a way that we leave off Christ and turn from Him and his church because all we can see is the blemishes of those we worship with. How happy Satan is when he tums one from the simplicity, which is in Christ.