I'd be interested to read others' thoughts - whether biblically-based or not - on this issue.
the thing is we have the dominion on earth , what happens is when we serve and do evil and imagine and lust after evil things ect as we partake of forbidden things we let them in , and give them a foothold like a parasite
a crude example is things like pornography that is something Satan inspired in this world and everyone knows it’s an abomination in the sight of God. As a person sits and watches something like this they are letting evil influence and corrupt thier mind and heart and imagination
we are like a vessel and we can be filled up with light or we can be filled up with darkness. Good water or bitter water
each day the things we choose to partake of are of light and dark if we invite demons into our lives through serving sin they actually begin to influence our thinking just as the holy spirit comes into our mind and heart evil spirits do that to if we allow and invite them and partake of thier infleinces in the world
It’s more about influencing thoughts corrupting them as our heart and mknd is corrupted it leads us astray and makes us servants to sin much as what happened in Eden
Satan knows what we have been told by God and is always seeking to corrupt what God said because what we believe whether what God said or what the devil said
is the fruit poison and will kill me like God said ? Or did God lie to Me and the serpent is telling me the truth ?”
that’s our dilemma the world is filled with evil not of God
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”
1 John 2:15-17
but the world also has the gospel going throughout this world
our place is to follow the gospel and reject the world and it’s evil influences upon our mind and heart by the weaknesses of the flesh
o don’t know about mknd reading I’d say it’s more like poisoning the good waters in the mind corrupting the mind once a sinful mknd is created in us ues at that point Satan and demons know because they put those thoughts there like a lure and we took the bait
If we’re filled with this mind he definately knows what we’re thinking
“For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”
Mark 7:21-23 KJV
that kind of mknd isn’t hidden from evil it is produced by it