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Originally Posted by Nell
Context is important. Who told the woman that she would be "like God"? The serpent. The serpent, a liar and the father of lies, speaking "the truth", for the purposes of deception. The woman admitted that she was deceived by the words of the serpent. She believed the rationalizations of the serpent who contradicted the words of God.
Genesis 3:13 And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Thinking that a desire to be "like God" was/is a good thing is truly cringeworthy. The woman thought it was a good idea, yet this was the catalyst for the fall of Man.
I recall a little testimony from days of yore...a sister said she didn't give a testimony in the meeting because she was sitting on the back row. Another sister asked her "Who told you you were sitting on the back row?"
Nell
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This is the entirety of what the serpent said to Eve:
1 And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’ ”
4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.
5 “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.”
Which part was true and which part was a lie?
Trapped