On the importance of reading the Bible carefully and knowing exactly what it says

Genesis 3:1

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?'"

In the garden, the devil comes to Eve in the form of a serpent and asks, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden?'" Here, the devil tries to deliberately change the word of God. In Genesis 2:16 God says the exact opposite of what Satan says. The Lord God said, "You are free to eat from any tree of the garden..."

God proclaims to us in his word that we are free (John 8:36 "So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."), but Satan tries to shackle us by planting in our minds a view of God that is a lie. This is his strategy to get us to fall into sin. And as we read on in this tragic passage (Genesis 3), we find that one of the reasons why Eve is not prepared for this attack is because she does not know exactly what the Bible says.