title: The Devil's Dictum
author: Frederick Gero Heimbach
description: Frederick Gero Heimbachs fiction has appeared at Every Day Fiction and Liberty Island. He was editor of the podcast Protecting Project Pulp throughout its run. He can be found on the internet as Fredsphere and in the real world as a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, along with his family. <em>The Devils Dictum</em> is his first novel.
zlib_text: by
  Oral Roberts
  
  Copyright © 1989
  by Oral Roberts
  All Rights Reserved
  BK 620
  Printed in U.S.A.
  Reprinted 1/95
  Sixth Printing
  
   I WANT YOU TO BE 
  FOREWARNED AND 
  FOREARMED...
  "The devil made me do it. "
  Do you remember that line from the television 
  show  several  years  ago?  It  became  a  popular 
  expression and made the devil a household word. 
  Yet in the midst of the "joke," many people seemed 
  to think that the devil himself was just a joke—that 
  he isn't real. In fact, not too long ago I received a 
  letter from a man who said, "Oral Roberts, why do 
  you talk about the devil as if he were real and able to 
  have influence on people's lives?"
  I talk about the devil being real because he is real. 
  According to the Word of God, and according to 
  experiences I've had that are too numerous to tell in 
  this small book, I want to assure you today that the 
  devil is very much alive.
  He  not  only  exists  but  he  has  the  ability  to 
  influence and deceive all human beings who choose 
  to