Amazed@grace
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Did he?NOOOOOOOOO!!
God doesn't lie, and that serpent of old (Satan) only lies!!
So even the thought: that both would be telling the truth shows a problem with discernment of spirits!!
Look closer at what that snake was telling EVE:
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’” The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!
That snake said she wound not die, though God had said she would. She did eat and that resulted in her later dying!! That snake lied!!!!!
Did Eve or Adam drop dead after eating of the forbidden tree?
No.
Adam and Eve were not immortal.
They were going to die before eating of the tree. We know this because in Genesis we are told God banished them from the garden to insure they did not then eat of the tree of life.
The serpent said Eve would not die if she ate of the tree. They did not die.But that snake old was crafty about how he went about it. He was crafty even though he was in the garden, so any conclusion you might come up with about it not being possible for that lying crafty snake to be there is just a wrong conclusion, simply because he was there and lied in a crafty way to Eve.
It was God who said Adam and Eve had become like "us", knowing good and evil.Now that snake supported the lie by trying to tell Eve she would be like God, because she would know good and evil. Well, maybe she might be like God in the sense that she started to have an idea that both good (God) and evil (that snake) existed, but that did not make her like God in that she was not going to die, like that crafty snake was telling her.
God reiterated what the serpent had said about that.
Isaiah 45.Now here is the problem we face today. Because they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we too know that there is good and evil, which is to say we know the both God (and only God is good) and Satan (that evil snake of old who promotes evil to this day) exist!! That knowledge doesn't mean we have the ability to discern good from evil very well. That is a gift from the Holy Spirit. And we know the Spirit of God talks to our spirit so that we can find the Word of God we preach in our heart and sometimes in our mouth. Of course, as mentioned, the Holy Spirit is not the only spirit. We battle with the dark forces of this world, so we battle with a huge force of evil spirits who fell because they too bought in the lies of that snake.
So like Paul suggested, we need to take all thoughts captive to Jesus Christ. That would include any thought about whether that snake lies or not, and thoughts like whether that snake is omni-present like God is. If we are not humbling and earnestly seeking our Lord Jesus Christ and taking the thoughts we get to Him, how are we going to get discernment correct. We might know that good and evil exist because that tree was eaten from, but it wasn't a tree of discernment of spirit only a tree that gave us the knowledge of good and evil. Basically, Eve and Adam listened to the words that came from that old snake (Satan) and ate despite the fact that God told them not too, and that is how they found out that both good and evil is about, even if you find yourself in a very nice garden.
Which came first?
The fall? Or the war in heaven?