Jul 05 2008
Disguised and Christianized: On Deception
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 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.
Bear in mind, nothing changes the devil’s lie into God’s truth. Nothing! Just as nothing can make one plus two equal four, nothing makes, “You won’t die,” a statement of truth when promised to anyone, professing believer or not, who continues in sin. Gentle reader, be warned, though popular but grossly deceived contemporary, evangelical teachers Christianize and disguise Satan’s lie, “Ye shall not surely die,” remains hell’s drug tragically dumbing the minds and closing the eyes of men!
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