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Did Devil Make Teen kill Parents and Brothers?
U.S. News and World Report ran an article yesterday written by Casey Jones
{Associated Press Writer} reporting that a 15 year old boy in Cockeysville, MD. shot his parents and two younger brothers as they slept, then hung out with friends for more than 12 hours before returning home and calling 911 to report that his father was dead. Police said that the teen had not been getting along with his dad recently, waited until all the family members had gone to sleep, and then entered the house, took his fathers hand gun and shot each of them.
There are numerous incidents reported in the bible just like the one above. Consider the story of Cain and Abel. Cain brutally killed Abel just because God accepted Abel’s sacrifice over Cain’s. Then there’s the story of King David mourning the death of his son even though Absalom was bent on killing his Father and the rest of the family just like the teen in the story.
I believe that outside of a bona fide personal, intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, everyone is capable on doing horrendous things. The Psalmist David wrote in chapter 51 that we are all shaped with the ability to do all types of iniquity and even went so far as to say that we were born from our mother’s womb with the ability to be sinful. Ephesians 2:3 teaches that these types of things happen after we fulfill the desires of our flesh and mind.
So why do you think people do evil things toward other human beings? Do we attribute the wrong of this teen to upbringing, poor life as a child, or does it really start with the state of our spirit man? Was he motivated by anger and selfishness, are did the Devil really have a part in the killing spree?
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By KDF
February 4, 2008 7:00 PM | Link to this
Questions, such as the one you propose, I can’t answer on this side of paradise. The Devil and his angels do many horrific things, but the boy’s age, et al, I just don’t know.