The first two remarks that came from the mouth
of Satan are recorded in Genesis 3.
In verse 1 Satan questions what God has said, "Yea, hath God said..."
The second utterance, in verse 4, is Satan's
great lie, "Ye shall not surely die."
Not let us look at what God said and the lie
that Satan started, refuting God's clear, unmistakable words.
God said in Gen 2:17 that if they should eat
of a certain tree Adam and Eve would die. In the King James it reads,
"...thou shalt surely die." Actually the original Hebrew is more
emphatic, "dying you shall die."
Satan's lie refuted this so they ate the
forbidden fruit and this elicited another pronouncement of death from
God; Genesis 3:16, "...for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou
return."
In the Garden was the Tree of Life. Evidently
if Adam and Eve ate of this tree they would live forever, Gen. 3:22,
so God drove them from the Garden, verse 24. Adam and Eve were mortal!
They would die When God breathed into them the breath of life they
BECAME living souls (beings) they did not have souls breathed into
them, but breath - life.
Three times we read of man's mortality. He
would surely die; he would return to the dust, he would not eat of the
Tree of Life. Three times God's word pronounced death upon mankind.
And that brings us back to Satan's first two
remarks being echoed by Christians today.
"Yea, has God said..."
"You shall not surely die."
God did not mean that the soul dies. Surely we
don't really die.
Really? What makes you think so? Have you
bought into Satan's lie?
Read on...
