The Devil is NOT in the details because . . .

The devil is not in the details because. . . the devil does not exist except in the minds of those who believe he does!

But yeah,  understandably, that’s only an expression to mean:

“The details of a plan, while seeming insignificant,

may contain hidden problems that threaten

its overall feasibility.”

[from  What’s the meaning of the phrase ‘The devil is in the details’?]

Now, just think:  how does an expression like that become quotable, well, for those who’ve heard of it and actually use it?  Have you, dear reader, used it yourself?  And if so, do you know its origin?

If the answer is no (and even if it’s a yes), for the benefit of the clueless among us,  here’s a background-er:

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What’s the origin of the phrase ‘The devil is in the details’?

The source of the proverb :

‘The devil is in the details’ is often attributed to the German/American architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe. This is almost certainly a misattribution.

The expression derives from an earlier German proverb – “Der liebe Gott steckt im detail”,  which translates as ‘God is in the detail’.

Mies Van Der Rohe is also associated with this earlier form but, although he may have used it, there’s no evidence that he was the first to do so.

In the migration of the phrases,  an ‘s’ was added – the earlier form is usually ‘God is in the detail’; the later form is more commonly ‘the devil is in the details’.

‘The devil is in the details’ only came into common use in the 1990s (Van Der Rohe died in 1969) and the earliest citation of it that I’ve found in print is in Richard Mayne’s explanation of the workings of the European Union – The Community of Europe, 1963:

On the principle that ‘the devil is in the details’, what should have been a merely formal occasion developed into a debate about the Community’s official languages and the site of its headquarters.

The phrase might have been tailor-made for negotiations between European Union countries, which are renowned for their labyrinthine and hair-splitting attention to detail.

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Okay,  all that background to repost an item included in

• Oy Searchers, need help? – March 2018

03/31/18 – Well hell!  Pardon the expression but it’s apropos for this update.

For a very short while there, we thought that the Vicar of Christ –  Pope Francis –  finally awakened to the same truth that Sinai 6000 has been ‘preaching’ in our website:  that hell and its ringleader the Devil, AKA Satan/Lucifer — do not exist except in the New Testament.

Yes indeed, they’re alive and well in  the Gospels, actually interacting and persecuting God/Man Jesus through their clueless human-cohorts (Roman gentiles and Jewish religious leaders), as well as in the Epistles of the apostle Paul,  one of which even goes into detail of the hierarchy of devils/demons/evil spirits and their specific assignments on planet earth.  Whaaatttt???

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Check out these newsbits for this shortlived papal declaration:

• I-Pope-latry . . . . is YHWH pleased?

And if anyone needs to understand who is the “serpent” in Genesis 3, here’s our explanation:

• Revisit: The Serpent, the Tree, and the ‘I’
• Revisit: Shedding without blood . . .
• Prooftext 1b – Genesis 3:15 – Who is the “serpent”?
• Prooftext 1d – Serpent Symbolism – Postscript
• Prooftext 1b: Genesis 3:15 – Seed of the Woman vs. Seed of the Serpent

Reprise:  GOD is in the DETAIL[S]; He is omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, omni-everything else! Who the hell could believe otherwise?

   NSB@S6K