“You believe that God is one? You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.'

‘Ah,' says the first man solemnly, ‘I am a believer. I believe that God is One just as He told me to' (in Deuteronomy 6:5). (Or ‘I believe that there is one God.') ‘Well done,' says the other. That puts you on a par with the Devil and his minions. For the demons also believe, and it makes them shudder.' The thought is that it should make this man professing faith consider whether it should make him shudder too when he thinks how hypocritical he is being. We note that this man, like the Devil, is fully aware of the One God, but he makes no response to Him in his life. It makes him no different from those who have no faith at all. It actually make him no different from the Devil, for it produces nothing positive within him.

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