Satan will now make his final and fatal appeal to Eve.

Genesis 3:5

For God doth know that in the day ye eateth thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

With this statement, Satan implied that God was robbing man of knowledge which he not only had a right to possess but would raise him to an exalted position previously not possible.

With this statement, Satan implied that God was robbing man of knowledge which he not only had a right to possess but would raise him to an exalted position previously not possible.

“Your eyes shall be opened and ye shall know.” Was there anything wrong with desiring to know? Wasn’t the aspiration for self-improvement through pursuing and gaining knowledge reasonable? Eve had already been coming into a larger and fuller knowledge of God and his universe. So now, if by simply eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil she could at once obtain knowledge as limitless as God’s own, and be certain God’s penalty of death would not be enacted, why shouldn’t she eat of it?

Satan reached the peak of evil when he had said, “I will be like the Most High,” and now in some revised form suited to the innocence of the sinless pair, he tempted them to a similar aspiration, “Ye shall be as gods.” He held out to them the luring possibility of advancement in knowledge even to the plane of the divine and unseen.

With the appeal in Genesis 3:5, the tempter assaulted the whole personality of the woman; mind, emotion, and will. “Don’t be such a fool to believe God’s word when it is so obviously against all right and reason; don’t let yourself be cheated out of something you rightfully should have; don’t be such a coward that you are afraid to state your own will in this matter.”

“Thus it is seen that at the back of the method of the devil is an aspersion cast upon the character of God. Man was made to question the goodness of law. Appealing to the intelligence of man, the enemy created an aspersion, which was calculated to change the attitude of his emotion, and so capture the final citadel, that namely of his will. He declared that man’s intellectual nature was prevented from development by this limitation. By this declaration he created in the mind of man a question as to the goodness of the God who had made the law, and thus imperilled the revelation of the will to God, as he called it into a place of activity outside, and contrary to the will of God” (G. Campbell Morgan, The Crises of the Christ, p. 33). 

But let’s pause for a moment and consider that between Genesis 2 and 3, we have God and Satan speaking opposing words.  

Genesis 2:17 “you shall surely die.”          Genesis 3:4 “you will not surely die. 

Whose word was true? What is the proof?

Genesis 3:4-32:  Adam lived … 930 years, and he died; Seth…and he died; Enosh…and he died; Kenan…and he died; Mahalalel…and he died; Jared…and he died; Methuselah…and he died; Lamech…and he died; Noah…and he died

MAN DIED – man is continuing to die.

DEATH IS THE PROOF THAT GOD’S WORD IS TRUE!!

God, thank you. You cannot lie!!  Titus 1:2

In Him,

Marion