The Deadly Conversation

Genesis 3 cont’d:  The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,  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.’”

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.  “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Second lesson in temptation: don’t talk with the liar and respond to his questions. 

Eve told the serpent what God said – she spoke the truth to him.

However, because she opened up the conversation, he spoke back with a deadly lie – one that told her that what God said was not true at all.  She won’t die. She will actually become like God.  Therefore, God lied to her and withheld something good from her.

What great lessons we can learn from just observing the first encounter with temptation written in the bible.

We will all hear whispers from time to time that question God’s character, and if we entertain those whispers by whispering back in our spirits and listening to further questioning, we’re on a slippery path.

Satan wants us to think God’s word has no validity, and that God himself has a hidden agenda in the directives he gives to us to follow; namely, to withhold something good from us.

We all believe this at one time or another in our lives when we see something good that we believe would be a great thing, and yet God says no.  We question his goodness in our lives and think he’s holding out on providing that which we need.

It’s not so.

God is good. All the time.  God is good.

Anything else that comes to mind is certain death.