Genesis 3:
At this point, has anyone done anything evil?
I think so. Contradicting God was an evil act. I think the serpent was a manifestation of the devil Satan. Jesus said in John 8:44 he was a liar from the beginning.
The innocent Eve was no match for the evil serpent. She failed the test. Immediately, she and Adam experienced bad thoughts that were not bad before. They saw that being naked was no good. They developed their independent definitions apart from God's.
What about today? How do we decide what is good or evil?
Well, I have been born of the Spirit. The more I grow in the Spirit, the more the Paraclete councils me and guides me in my conscience.
God created everything good back in Gen 1. Now, God used the serpent to test Eve.1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.
Eve misquoted God's words but that's an innocent mistake.He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
The serpent formally contradicted God according to First-Order Logic.4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
God knew everything. God knew evil existed.5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
At this point, has anyone done anything evil?
I think so. Contradicting God was an evil act. I think the serpent was a manifestation of the devil Satan. Jesus said in John 8:44 he was a liar from the beginning.
The innocent Eve was no match for the evil serpent. She failed the test. Immediately, she and Adam experienced bad thoughts that were not bad before. They saw that being naked was no good. They developed their independent definitions apart from God's.
What about today? How do we decide what is good or evil?
Well, I have been born of the Spirit. The more I grow in the Spirit, the more the Paraclete councils me and guides me in my conscience.