>>17952272
according to all pre-christian belief systems held by "whites", they understood themselves to be the literal descendants of "gods" and that those "gods" were embodied collectively by all of their people/race/phenotype, and that such people were animated by the "spirit" of that "god" which had become sewn into the flesh of the god's people.
All people who have a "spirit" are of a "god" and according to christian theology, they are all called to join one body together because all "spirit" is of one source, one root source of all such "gods" the God of gods.
So most did, their "spirits" becoming collectively the "Holy Spirit" which animates all the people who collectively form the living "body" of the one true "God".
once you accept all that, then you can understand what the "devil" is, it is simply a "god" of people who have not yet taken their place in the body of the God of gods.