ify the-existence of free will in the lives of human beings. Satan represents the temptation to do evil or immoral acts, and the theological perspective claims that God wants people to decide for themselves what is right or wrong. Thus, a belief in free will is inherent in the theological perspective on Satan which "focuses on temptations to sin and the need for Christians to be aware of the transcendent aspect of both temptation and sin, which they ought to resist in advance by prayer, spiritual discipline, and works of love and justice" (Woods 276).
The viewpoints of psychiatry and the law differ from the theological perspective on the issue of satanism and crime. Whereas traditional theology accepts the idea that humans have free will in choosing good, as represented by God, over evil, as represented by Satan, psychiatry and the law generally accept the idea that practitioners of Satanism are either insane or irresponsible and therefore incapable of expressing free will in such matters. Psychiatrists, for example, gen
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