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| The Devil's Lie - Ye shall be as God |
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January
4, 2021
The
Devil's Lie
#Ye_shall_be_as_gods
#but_ended_as_slaves_to_sins
#man_craves_to_be_autonomous
Genesis
3
4
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be
opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
The
context: LORD God the Creator sovereignly determines what man, His creature,
can and cannot do; God alone determines what is good and evil; God the Creator
is the SOLE determiner of what is good and evil.
Satan
endeavours to make it all sounds very arbitrary and despotic. Basically, Satan
is trying to stir up resentment in the woman, "why do you let God boss
over you like this. The fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is
perfectly harmless - pleasant to the sight and good for food..." Gen 2:9.
"Knowing
good and evil" in its context is to be AUTONOMOUS - behaving as gods, be
the determiner of what is good and evil!
Let's
get the sense, not just the sound!
God's
word to Adam was, “thou shalt surely die” (2:17) - literally, מוֹת תָּמֽוּת - "dying, thou shalt
surely die."
Satan's
word to the woman was literally, "dying, thou shalt not surely die."
Satan did not contradict God's word in an open and blatant way: Satan is never
that stupid; he just gives God’s words a subtle twist. Gen 3:1 declares him to
be more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. Satan
subtly minimizes the enormity of the death spoken of. You will die, but it is
not as bad as you have been threatened. So, it's ok to be your own boss - you
be the sovereign one who determines what is good and what is evil, e.g. “be as
gods yourself!
God
said, "Dying, THOU shalt surely die" - that's the force of the Hebrew
- death in its fullest form: the death of fellowship between Adam and Adamah,
death of fellowship between man and God, death of separation between body and
spirit, and death of separation between man and God, etc.
Satan
said, "Dying, YE shalt not surely die" - that's the sense of the
Hebrew... Satan denied the severity of the death threatened against sin.
"It is not so serious... fear not, do your pleasure!" that's the same
subtle seduction of Satan to this day!
Satan
is more subtle than you think! One who thinks Satan is stupid is the real
STUPID one... and you have shown yourself one! Hasn’t God’s word declared,
" Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the
LORD God had made.
Eat
it anyway; be your own boss. Determine for yourself what is good and evil; show
that you are gods! And the chief characteristic of fallen man is autonomy, a
law unto himself.
And
the same subtlety continues to ruin so many.
Yes,
ye are as gods!
