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The Ancient Strategy to Defeat Christians
Nothing much has changed since the beginning
Did God really say …?
That was the question Satan used to tempt Eve in the Garden of Eden, and it was how he deceived her into sin.
There were three things Satan did to deceive Eve. Today we don’t have God walking around in the Garden, but we do have His book. Today opponents of the Gospel are constantly attacking the Bible, trying to discredit it and spread doubt on the faith. The same tactics are often employed.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
The first trick was to misquote what God had said. This is done today as well, and often it is couched in the idea that the Bible is not clear. It usually is clear, but people sometimes don’t like what it says so they try to make it say something else.
The idea is to trick people into misunderstanding what God has said. Misquoting, or using the “it can be translated another way” argument is a method of deception.
3:2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree…
