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The first step, then, in the Satanic approach, is the insinuation that God has not
spoken. If this idea can be established it removes all responsibility from the individual

to heed any higher authority, and there is no accountability whatever. The certain and
logical conclusion of this state of mind is that we are debtors to the flesh, to live after
the flesh, and should give vent to every urge of nature. Little wonder that when the
foundations of the Word of God have been blasted away there grows on its ruins the

cult of “Self-expression.” Little wonder that the very same teachers, spawns of hell,
who tell the youth that God has not spoken, urge them to go out and indulge
themselves in any way they see fit. Denial of divine authority has as its logical
conclusion the glorification of lust. The tempter grows bolder. First a question as to

whether God has spoken, then a categorical denial—a direct contradiction of what the
woman has clearly understood as being the divine prohibition, together with the
warning in the event of disobedience.

“Ye shall not surely die,” asserts the dragon. He is the author of death and the
prince of death, and he desires to discount it altogether or to minimize its importance.
A benign Creator warns that a certain course of procedure will result in death: a
vicious creature denies it. Every child of Adam of the millions and millions who have

lived in the world (except Enoch and Elijah, who were granted special reprieves by
God Himself) have died to prove God true and Satan a liar, and yet the lie persists, and
men love darkness rather than light. They choose a murderer and crucify the Prince of
life.

First a question, then a contradiction, and lastly a false promise! Having allayed
her fears by telling her that there can no punishment result from a disobedience of
God, the tempter moves one step farther and assaults the character of God and

undertakes to establish an evil motive for what the woman still feels He has said. “For
God doth know that in the day ye „eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and ye
shall be as God [why the translators rendered the great Elohim by the little generic
plural „gods‟ remains a mystery], knowing good and evil.”

“So that is the reason,” thought Eve, “that He told us not to eat of it. He has
confined our little authority to this earth, when our lofty talents should qualify us to

share the government of the universe with Elohim. Probably the dragon is right!” The
erstwhile anointed cherub is up to his old tricks. He had managed to convince a
myriad of angels that he and they should be “like the Most High.” The lie had
rebounded against him with devastating results, but it still remained good bait, and
remains so till this day. The evolutionists still spin that gossamer web (at the dragon‟s

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