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Genesis 3:1-7
Excerpted from: The Problem with PrideWith this in mind, let us head over to our second progression of pride in Genesis. 3 verse 1. This is the account of the temptation of Eve. I know we have read this many times, but as we go through this, remember that pride was also the sin that Satan committed.
This very discussion, the conversation documented here in the Garden of Eden, is easily echoed throughout the generations of man. I have no idea how many times I have seen or heard this argument tactic. All you are looking for is a tiny fracture in the person's logic or thinking to then provide enough information to make that person think that you are actually right when in fact you are not.
I appreciate that in the documentation of this interaction, Eve does recount what God had required of them basically to the letter. She knew what they were supposed to do and what they should not do. But Satan, knowing the effects of pride so well, gives her a half truth, "You will not surely die," when in fact he knew that they would. In that moment though, she started rationalizing. Well, did God lie to us? Was He telling us the truth?
Let us focus in on where pride welled up in this exchange. In verse 6, "So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food," here is where the lust of the flesh presented itself. The fruit to her carnal eyes looked good, and it appealed to her carnal nature that it would satisfy her desire. We see that she saw that it was "pleasant to the eyes," so the lust of the eyes entered into the thought process. And finally, believing that the "tree was desirable to make one wise," she succumbed to the pride of life, thinking that she could find wisdom outside of God Himself.
Genesis 3:1-6
Excerpted from: Decide Now How You Will Respond!So the tempter's subtlety lay in his approach, which emphasized God's prohibition of the forbidden tree by asking an incredulous question in verse 1, contradicting God's predicted punishment for disobeying the law in verse 4, and providing the woman a reason for desiring the forbidden fruit in verse 5.
In the process of Eve's gradual weakening, she amplified the original prohibition beyond what God said, when in verse 3 he said, nor shall you touch it. And she produced three impeccable reasons in verse 6 for eating the forbidden fruit as she contemplated the possibility of doing so. She knew it was wrong, but she reasoned her way out of it.
Even Adam's succumbing to the temptation is recorded with a matter-of-factness that makes us cringe. Verse 6 says, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. The simplistic way this is stated suggests their casualness toward temptation, desire, and sin. And this was the first Laodicean type of action. The Laodicean attitude is ho-hum toward temptation.
Genesis 3:1-7
Excerpted from: Flag of Our FatherIt has been postulated over the years as opposed to the picture drawn from the minds of men of an apple from Eve to Adam, that the actual fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was a fig. So here in chapter 3, verse 7 we see another very significant hint as to what happened from taking of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Verse 7 tells us the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.
The first thing that man did after the sin of taking of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, disobeying the truth of God's Word, was to see their physical differences not from God's perspective toward unity but in the perversion of disobedience and the mind of men towards division. Then taking the leaves from that very tree, they determined for themselves to protect their own different parts that God had made to perfectly unite them physically.
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