God's Sabbath

C HAPTER 17

How It All Began

A prayerful / careful reading of Genesis 3 together with Patri archs and Prophets, pages 52 to 62, can help to deepen the un derstanding of this chapter. S o far we have presented evidence and arguments to show the evil effects of our taking on God’s role of Problem Solver. To confirm this conclusion we will now briefly consider how the trouble with sin began. To gain his ends, the tempter chose the procedure of persuad ing the original couple to transfer the role of problem solver from God to themselves. In the record of his coming to Adam and Eve in Paradise we find a powerful example of this temptation.

Eve Tempted

When Satan came to Eve in the guise of a medium, he tried to introduce doubts into her mind by asking a subtle question. “Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the L ORD God had made. And he said to the woman, ‘Has God indeed said, “You shall not eat of every tree of the garden”?’” Genesis 3:1.

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