Jul 05 2008
Deception: Toned Down and Dressed Up
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 sunset the songbird’s strain shed its rapture, even the grass wore gloomy hues. Whispers and gasps, sobs and groans pushed through swaying fields pursuing relief, but finding none. Dispirited waters lay quiet below crimson skies as the back of God’s creation buckled under the burden of sedition’s abomination. Confusion grabbed repose, brutes roared and consciences begged for clothes. Offering treason no reward, with angels and blazing swords God promised to end sin’s discord.
If dirges flowed like mountain streams and tears outnumbered stars surely this day beheld both. Did Eve forget the command of her Sovereign? Did Adam consider the consequences of his crime? How could such tragedy occur? They physically walked with God every day! They heard His voice and spoke to Him directly. Their minds were sharp and their bodies strong. They had only one temptation with which to contend. Only one! What was their excuse? What were they thinking?
Did our ancient parents doubt the sincerity of their Creator’s unambiguous warning; when you eat of it you will die (Gen 2:17)? Did they think that somehow they could change the edict of God, or that He would forget His heavenly edict? Perhaps they expected a divine case of forgetfulness.
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.
Friend, nothing changes a satanic lie into a divine truth. Nothing! Just as nothing makes one plus one equal three, nothing can make, “Ye will not surely die,” a true sentiment when addressed to anyone, professing Christian believer or not, who persists in disobedience to God. Though popular but deceived modern, evangelical Christian teachers dress-up, tone-down, disguise and Christianize the devil’s lie, “Ye will not surely die,” remains hell’s booze tragically dulling the minds and shutting the eyes of men!
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