Genesis 2:15-18; 3:1 (ESV)
“[15] The LORD GOD took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. [16] And the LORD GOD commanded the man, saying, “You may SURELY EAT of every tree of the garden, [17] BUT OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL you shall NOT EAT, for in the day that you EAT of it YOU SHALL SURELY DIE.”
[18] Then the LORD GOD said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.””
Genesis 3:1 (ESV)
The Fall
“[1] Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD GOD had made.
He (the serpent) said TO THE WOMAN, “”DID GOD ACTUALLY SAY”, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?””
Taking NOTE of what ALMIGHTY GOD has said to you is MORE than important to your life, it is IMPERATIVE to those who GOD has given you! Genesis 2:24 says “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and THEY SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.”
To my knowledge, it isn’t recorded in Scripture that GOD gave instructions to Eve ANYWHERE to NOT eat OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL, but Adam was told, and VERY EXPLICITLY!!! However, Adam must have tried relating to Eve what GOD had said to him about “the forbidden fruit”, for her reply to the serpent was something more than that he was told by ALMIGHTY GOD had said.
It is MORE THAN IMPORTANT to share PRECISELY what SCRIPTURE says when we share GODS WORD with others, and NOT “the best we can do”!!! In making an effort to make HIS WORD more plausible and understandable, we MUST NOT alter what HE has said!!! GOD uses HIS WORD to accomplish HIS PLAN, even when we DO NOT understand it! We must be FAITHFUL to share HIS WORD as HE makes it known to us!
So when “the enemy” approaches us and says “DID GOD ACTUALLY SAY” this or that”, it imperative to us to use SCRIPTURE, AND PREFERABLY have it memorized! With FEAR AND TREMBLING, we MUST KNOW “DID GOD ACTUALLY SAY” what HE said and live our lives accordingly!!!
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