The Seed Come to Fruition

With that seed of doubt firmly planted in the woman's mind, the serpent than fertilizes and waters that seeds with partial truth. This develops a lie that ultimately brings Eve and all of mankind to destruction. The enemy simply tells Eve "You will not die. For the Lord knows that in the day that you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good from evil"

1) "You will not die". Death does not come when you eat of the fruit. This is the half-truth. Death did not come immediately when she ate of the fruit. In fact Eve's death did not come for a long time. However, in that day death occurred. Eve brought death on herself and her husband. Many times the consequences to our actions are not immediately evident. We may never see the ultimate results of our actions in this lifetime at all. That doesn't mean that they don't exist. Every sin has consequences. It amuses me when i hear people with the mentality that as long as what i do doesn't hurt someone else, it doesn't matter. Nothing that we do doesn't affect the people we are closest to one way or another. Everything we do has consequences and affects others. When we attempt to justify our sins we hurt ourselves and everyone else around us. The enemy knew that what God said was the truth but purposefully led Eve to believe that it wasn't. Eve took that seed of doubt and allowed it to grow until it ultimately destroyed her and her life. Instead of trusting her God and her husband, she sought her own way. She sought to have more.

2) "For the Lord knows that in the day that you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God knowing good from evil" This is another half-truth. Yes, God knew that when Adam & Eve ate of the fruit their eyes would be open and they would know good & evil. The implication / statement here is that by doing so Eve would become like God. That God was threatened by this idea, and was purposefully holding her / them back. Logically, if God had truly been threatened by Adam & Eve eating of the fruit of this tree, he could have removed the tree as easily as he created it. No God was not threatened by man and when you take a step back to look the very idea and principle it is just silly. However, this had stopped being an issue of logic a long time before. The seed of doubt had taken it's hold, and the issue was no longer about what was right. It was about desire. It was about wanting what was not hers to take. It was about not being satisfied with who she was and where she was. It had become about one-upping her husband and God. Thus the seed of doubt watered and fertilized was creating the tree of destruction and the fruit of death.

This is the way it occurs even today. Every thought we don't control. Every rash decision we make has the potential to produce fruit unto destruction. Nothing we do is without consequences.

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