Did the sunrise chase away starry dreams? Was it a day like today? From mountain summits to valley floors, surely all creation joined nature's refrain as the Almighty's chorus sprang to life. This voiceless chorus sang utopian strains of heavenly rhapsody while lambs and lions feasted on spring leaves.
Neither sharp words nor even weeds corrupted this unspoiled paradise. Did the bluebird's breezy refrain awaken our earliest parents? Perhaps their eyes opened at the gentle shove of an affable beast. They loved and laughed and honor held sway. Then revolt. Betrayal!
By twilight the songbird's refrain shed its felicity, and even the grass donned sullen hues. Sighs and gasps, sobs and moans rushed through swaying blades hunting for consolation but finding none. None. Melancholy waters lay motionless beneath orangey skies as the back of the Almighty's creation bent under the weight of rebellion's abomination. Bedlam seized repose, beasts growled and consciences demanded clothes. Offering rebellion no reward, a holy God, with cherubs and flaming sword, promised an end to sin's vile discord.
If laments ran like mountain streams and dirges outstretched the skies surely this day saw both. Did Eve forget the edict of her Sovereign? Did Adam ponder the outcome of his crime? What went wrong? They spoke with the Almighty each day!Their minds were focused and their bodies unimpaired. They wrestled with only one temptation. One! What was their defense? What was their rationale?
Did our first parents lack faith in the honor of their Creator's clear warning; in the day that you eat from it you will surely die. (Gen 2:17)? Did they think that somehow they could hinder the declaration of almighty God, or that He might alter His divine edict? Perhaps they hoped for a celestial case of amnesia.
What lunacy grasped the minds of the innocent pair? Friend, like a cerebral stranglehold, "Ye shall not surely die" tightened its grip on the unspotted minds of Eden. Now, if the devil's first lie deluded our pre-fall, first parents who enjoyed daily communion with their Creator, only God knows the substantially greater probability of our being deceived.
Dear reader, nothing changes Satan's lie into the truth. Nothing! Just as nothing can make two plus two equal five, nothing can make, "Ye shall not surely die," a true statement when spoken to anyone, professing Christian or not, who persists in sin. Gentle reader, be warned, though popular but grossly deceived contemporary, evangelical teachers tone-down, dress-up, disguise and Christianize Satan's lie, "Ye shall not surely die," remains hell's dope tragically stupefying the minds and blinding the eyes of men!
For a detailed look at deception within the Christian church read Daniel LaLond's book The Lying Promise. The book exposes Satan's garden lie woven into the Christian gospel.
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