My father was a foreman in the forest industry for the vast majority of his working years. Sometimes, if I cried enough, he would let me tag along as he journeyed through the forest, checking crews who were cutting four-foot pulp.
As an eight or ten-year-old, I would be following him closely, step by step. The only time when his walking rhythm would be interrupted is when a snake would startle him. I was always amazed how Dad could do the high-jump without a pole.
Adam and Eve were introduced to that old snake when human history was just in its infancy. Instead of believing God, they believed the deceiver which was a problem. They didn’t have the proper reaction to his presence. The race has never recovered from that event.
Genesis 3:1-5
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
He is still telling the same old lies today. Do you believe him or God? Don’t listen to him, run. You will surely die.
Think about it.
Gary