Questioning God's Trustworthiness (TMF:1176)

Monday, July 22, 2019
Peace to Live By: Questioning God's Trustworthiness (TMF:1176) - Daniel Litton
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       Theories of science like evolution are based on this one simple question. Instead of just trusting God, people want to question what he has said—to put it to the test and try to prove it to be wrong. You see, if you can undercut what God has said, and show him to have said something untrue, you undermine his whole foundation. If you could prove God wrong, then he loses his authority. Another tactic, though, that we see right off the bat here is that Satan pinpoints and focuses on that which God said the humans could not have. He is questioning God’s trustworthiness and kindness. In essence, Satan is saying, “But it’s not fair that God let’s you have everything but the fruit from the two trees of which he has forbidden it. He doesn’t want you to have that fruit because he is mean and cruel. God is holding back something good from you.” And, here again, we see another way by which Satan works. He gets us to think that God is cheating us out of certain things in life—that God is a killjoy.