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As illustrated by Solomon and a few other kings, it is possible to start life dedicated to God and end it distracted by false gods and wrong priorities. Even the kings of God’s own people were not immune to the lure of self-centered desires and false gods.
Zondervan • NIV, Women's Devotional Bible
the serpent crafted a temptation to defy God’s limit
Peter Scazzero • Emotionally Healthy Discipleship: Moving from Shallow Christianity to Deep Transformation
13Mortal, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it, and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it human beings and animals, 14even if Noah, Daniel,[32] and Job, these three, were in it, they would…
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C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
The moral drama here gets to the core of human existence. Notice that the passage says that Eve saw the fruit as “desirable for gaining wisdom.” Satan was not just selling Eve the best fruit in the garden, but something more fundamentally appealing. He was telling Eve that if she ate the fruit, she would be independently wise. The promise was
... See morePaul David Tripp • Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands
Pride makes us forget God just as much as fear does.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
Even in ‘perfection’ – the Garden of Eden – you can’t keep out the voice of the talking snake. The voice that says, “Oh… You have everything! But here’s one thing you don’t have….”
Shane Willard • on Adam and Eve • Genesis 1-3.
... See moreThere’s this story I read one time, some old-school Muslim fairy tale, maybe it was a discarded hadith I guess, but it was all about the first time Satan sees Adam. Satan circles around him, inspecting him like a used car or something, this new creation—God’s favorite, apparently. Satan’s unimpressed, doesn’t get it. And then Satan steps into