Genesis 3:5
"For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
The truth is after eating the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve do know good and evil. The lie is that this is something desirable, for after disobeying God, they begin to experience firsthand the devastating consequences of sin.
The question for us today then is this: Are we willing to take God at his word? Are we willing to believe that when God warns us not to do something, he does it for our own good? Or do we need to cut and wound ourselves first like Adam and Eve did, before we begin to say to ourselves, "God was right all along, I should not have disobeyed him."
Showing posts with label the devil's lies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the devil's lies. Show all posts
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The devil lies by telling us "sin will open your eyes"
Genesis 3:5
"For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Satan says to the woman "when you eat of it your eyes will be opened." This implies that, at the time the devil came to her with this lie, Eve was living in ignorance. According to the devil, this was an ignorance that God himself was imposing on Eve, since he was the one who had commanded Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Today, Satan still tells us the same lie. He wants us to believe that sin will make us wiser, that it will open our eyes. This is a lie that we find echoed everywhere we look: in our movies, in the music we listen to, on ads everywhere. Everywhere we look or turn we find this idea--this deadly fallacy--being promoted and upheld by people all over the world. "Sin makes you wiser," they tell us, "it makes you smarter. You are not really living until you sin."
But, in his word, God tells us the exact opposite: Ephesians 4:18 reveals what sin really does to us. It says, "They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts." Far from opening our eyes, sin makes us blind and ignorant.
Only Jesus, the light of men, makes us wiser. The Bible tells us that in Jesus Christ "are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." (Colossians 2:3)
"For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Satan says to the woman "when you eat of it your eyes will be opened." This implies that, at the time the devil came to her with this lie, Eve was living in ignorance. According to the devil, this was an ignorance that God himself was imposing on Eve, since he was the one who had commanded Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Today, Satan still tells us the same lie. He wants us to believe that sin will make us wiser, that it will open our eyes. This is a lie that we find echoed everywhere we look: in our movies, in the music we listen to, on ads everywhere. Everywhere we look or turn we find this idea--this deadly fallacy--being promoted and upheld by people all over the world. "Sin makes you wiser," they tell us, "it makes you smarter. You are not really living until you sin."
But, in his word, God tells us the exact opposite: Ephesians 4:18 reveals what sin really does to us. It says, "They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts." Far from opening our eyes, sin makes us blind and ignorant.
Only Jesus, the light of men, makes us wiser. The Bible tells us that in Jesus Christ "are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." (Colossians 2:3)
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