Genesis 3:1-2 – 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
Confirmation from Eve’s own lips. If they ate from the tree in the middle of the garden or even touched it they will surely die. No confusion here. She heard God’s words completely correct.
So what happened?
Genesis 3:3 – 4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
She listened to Satan and bought the lie. Why did she buy the lie? Because she wanted what it offered which is the same thing Satan wanted and why he fell.
She bought the lie that you can be like God. It wasn’t good enough that she was ruling the earth with Adam and God was their God. No she wanted to be like God.
That was the reason she grabbed and ate the fruit. No tricks. Probably regret. Satan was telling her what she was longing for and she bought in.
Satan is still selling the same lie to many different religions in this world. You can be like God.
To say that we can be Gods is to say that Satan in the form of the serpent was telling the truth. I think
most of us who read the Bible can make it out that Satan wasn’t telling the truth to Eve. He tricked her and when she got Adam to come along, it allowed Satan to take the reins of this world.
How much does Jesus believe that Satan is a truthful person?
John 8:44 – 44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he
lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
The devil is peddling every known lie he can to keep us from the Father. Our only protection to know
if it is a doctrine of demons or the true Word is to know the Bible. Take time to know His Word, because in these last days, more apostasy is being dealt through the Church then anytime during our lifetime.