"You will surely not die!" ...the lie.

"You will surely not die!" ...the lie.

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There is Only One Creator God. He has a specific identity.

This God is the One Who has brought into existence all that exists, each of which has a specific design and purpose... which can only have come into being by a Creator.

This is the God that has made man to become into His image...to be like Him.

This God created man and gave him awareness of himself, creation, and the Creator.

Man is the only existence that has this awareness.

With awareness comes the ability to choose, in other words free will.

God said to Adam that he was free to take the fruit from any of the trees that He established and designated to be “good”.

However, God “commanded” Adam not to take of (live by) the tree of knowledge of good and evil...this tree was not good...that he was not free to take of this tree. This tree represented the way of doing things according to one’s own will... to decide, justify, and establish what is right for one’s own self-interest...this is Satan’s way. It disregards God’s Will.

In other words, God told Adam that he had the freedom to choose to eat the fruit from any of the good trees but that he was not free to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Why?... God also told Adam that if he were to choose to live by this “forbidden tree” that the consequence would be physical and spiritual death.

Satan now speaks to Eve and asks a self-serving twisted question...
“....Has God Indeed said, “You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’
In other words...is it true that you do not have any freedom?
Satan was playing a game with Eve....to create the envy for self-will, self-interest.

Eve answered by saying that they did have the freedom to take from all the trees which God established to be good, but that they only did not have the freedom to take of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which God commanded them not to take of. She also said that they were told, that if they did, that they would die.

Now Satan tries to discredit the warning of death. He tries to create doubt and suspicion about the reason why God forbid them to choose the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Basically implying the following...< that if you are free to eat of all the other trees, why not from this one? Is God hiding something “good” from you? Why does He not want you to have total freedom?...The true reason is that God does not want you to become like a god. He does not want you to be able to decide for yourself what is good for you. That is why He is trying to scare you off by giving this warning of death, but, he states, “you surely will not die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God knowing good and evil.” >

Satan is implying to Eve that God has denied their freedom to take of this tree because God does not them to be like a god...which would be the greatest freedom as their eyes would be opened to see things as they desired for their self-interest.

Eve, disregarded God and His Word, and took upon herself to judge the tree and its fruit. By doing so she crossed the bridge. She made the decision that it was good for food for her, that it was pleasant to the eyes for her own pleasure, and desirable to make one-self wise for one’s own interests. She defied the Words of God, His warning, and took of its fruit.

Satan never used force to cause Eve and Adam to follow his way of life.

They chose it because they decided it was good and righteous for them to live by this freedom to establish and justify what was right for their self-interest desires.

The consequence was terrible as they lost access to the tree of life...tree to eternity. The consequences of this way of life are seen today all around us, within each of our families. Pain, hurt, injustice, death...all being justified. This is the effect of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

However, this way of life is embraced, defended, and glorified as being righteous and good. It is considered to be the way of peace....for all mankind to live by the belief in freedom of rights, freedom of religion, freedom for one’s own happiness, freedom of one’s own sexuality.....as long as man respects the same freedoms for his neighbor.

This way of life also says that every man made religion, god, belief is as valid and equal as the Creator God and His Christ. This is “blasphemy”. This way of life dictates the True and Only God Creator and His Christ to be a religion amongst other religions.

However, the True God is not a religion.

He is the God that sent His Son, the Christ, to tell us and show us the truth, to stand for the Only True God and to stand for man...for those that repent (change) from the way of life of serving one’s own interest to that of living by the True Way (to love God with all of our heart, mind, souls, and strength...and...to love, in the Goodness of the Truth and God, our neighbor as ourselves.

There is no other way of life (belief) acceptable to Our Father.

Christ taught this, was beaten for this, died for this and was resurrected for this so that, if we change to follow Him, we would be given a “clean slate”.

I pray that man and Christians will see the deception of this false lamb, this false light....the lie which is portrayed as the righteous universal values.