“The Evil One Can Twist The Bible’s Words”

A few years back me my mom and some woman were sitting at one of the tables in our church after service was over. I had a copy of The Silmarillion with me, and she had only vaguely heard of JRR Tolkien and asked me if there was any spiritual or magical stuff in it (or something to that affect, it’s been a while).

Eventually we got to the topic of Harry Potter, and I was a big fan at the time and always tried to defend it, and I mentioned how there was a quote on Harry’s parents’ grave that resembled a Bible verse, and she told me that “the evil one can distort the word of God” (or something similar, again, it’s been a while so I don’t remember the exact wording of everything, but the general idea is still there).

I didn’t even realize this until recently, but going by that logic, here’s a good question: why even bother reading The Bible at all? If The Devil can distort it, who’s to say that he isn’t distorting it all of the time? For all you know, every single thing you thought you knew about Christianity could be a massive lie by him, if you believe he was really capable of that.