In my Bible Study today, I was reading again about Adam and Eve's sin in the garden and was once again struck by the knowledge that Satan uses the same old tired tactics today that he used way back then. Sadly, because so many don't study their Bibles, they don't recognize that it is Satan to whom they are listening.
Consider Satan's first question to Eve: "Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" He just wants to get her questioning the Word of God. At first she repeats what she has been told by God. But sly Satan reads more into it: "You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." There must be an ulterior motive behind God's command that you not eat of that good tree! You won't really die! He just knows that if you eat it, you will be like Him! Oh, the ways that lie is still being spun today! The religion according to Oprah and Obama and most of the Mensas, you know, the really smart and enlightened ones, the ones with evolved thinking, still believe the same old tired lie that they can defy God's commands and they won't die, and that they can even be as gods, enlightened beings, one with the universe, and all that goes with that lie.
Oh, it did sound good to Eve, as it sounds good to us today. But we're never content to sin alone; we always want to take someone with us. There's safety in numbers, right? If everyone does it, it will somehow be okay. So Eve gave some to her husband, just as so many foist their sins on us and our culture and tell us it's okay. Adam and Eve knew they were wrong and they tried to cover their shame - just as society tries to cover our corporate shame with twisted truth and wicked laws that say it's okay to murder innocent babies, it's okay to accept and promote homosexuality, and it's okay to worship the earth and its creations, all in the name of a "greater good". Liberals seek to cover their shame with corrupt laws that pretend to make it all okay. They must hide from God because He knows the truth. That is the reason they must get God out of the public square; that is the reason they must silence those intolerant pesky Christians who seek to remind them what God really said. When we are reminded what He really said, we are quick to blame someone else, usually someone who is even worse, so that we don't look so bad: And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me; she gave me of the tree, and I ate." I get tickled at this line, because not only does Adam blame the woman, but he even blames God! The woman YOU gave to me; SHE gave it to me!
And of course, Eve blames the serpent. How many times, as Christians, do we hear brothers and sisters in Christ blaming Satan? But Eve had all the control over what she did. She could have listened to God and adhered to His command, but instead she chose to listen to Satan. Why, oh why, are Christians still listening to his lies today? Why do we find it so much easier to accept a false truth in the lies than we do to stand firm in the knowledge of the only real truth, God's truth? No matter what we tell ourselves about why we do it, to be more tolerant or loving (it's only a pretense of loving), if it goes against the Word of God, it's wrong, plain and simple! And if you choose to go against it, you are following the serpent of old. True, he is cunning, and smarter than Oprah and the Mensas, so that is why it is necessary to guard our hearts and stay in the Word of God, so we will recognize the deception when it comes.
Don't lose sight of my words. Let them penetrate deep within your heart...Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Psalm 4:21 & 23
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