Without God, "Ye shall be as gods." (TMF:1186)

Monday, August 05, 2019
Peace to Live By: Without God, "Ye shall be as gods." (TMF:1186) - Daniel Litton
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       Let’s read Genesis 3:4, 5 again: “But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Let’s consider the rest of Satan’s statement here. We have already established the fact that Satan lied in the first part of what he said. But what I want us to see here is that the rest of what Satan says is in fact true, believe it or not. He mixed truth with error to deceive Eve. So, he says “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” It was certainly true that eating the fruit would lead both Adam and Eve to becoming like God. What this means is that, as the King James Version says, “Ye shall be as gods.” The sinning by Adam and Eve would move God from being God of their lives, to themselves being god of their lives.